Don't Make Me Go to School

(Gene Crysler)



My little girl said mommy

The school room breaks my heart

Arithmetic reminds me that

You and dad's apart.



Subtraction starts me breaking up

'Cause him from us leaves too

And with our home devided

Now I cry a lot in school.



Don't make me go to school no more

And cry through every test

I'm so ashamed when children see

The teardrops on my desk.



Imagine how you feel to hear

Your child say this to you

Don't make me go to school no more

And make the fifth grade blue.



--- Instrumental ---



It's hard to see my lessons

The blackboard's one big tear

And when I turn wet papers in

Niss Dickens only stares.



So please may I be absent mom

Like daddy is from home

I'd rather fail than face the class

They know my daddy's gone.



Don't make me go to school no more

And cry through every test

I'm so ashamed when children see

The teardrops on my desk.



Imagine how you feel to hear

Your child say this to you

Don't make me go to school no more

And make the fifth grade blue...