Education

Kinks
 CFCF
 In a deep dark jungle long time ago
 CF
 Lived a lonesome caveman
 DmGmEm
 He was a solitary soul 
 CF
 And he spent his playtime
 CF
 Chewing meat from bones.
 CF
 He didn't know how to talk much
 CF
 He only knew how to groan
 BbF
Then he lifted up his hands and reached to the sky
 CGm
 Let out a yell and no one replied.
 BbF
Frustration and torment tore him inside
 CGmCGm
Then he fell to the ground and he cried and he cried.
 DC
But then education saved the day.
 AmG
 He learned to speak and communicate
 DC
 Education saved the day.
 AmG
 He thanked God for the friends he made.

 CF
 'Cos everybody needs an education
 CF
 Everybody needs an education.
 DmGmEm
 Black skin, red skin, yellow or white,
 CF
 Everybody needs to read and write
 CF
 Everybody needs an education.

Bb F C Gm *2

 BbF
 Thank the day when that primitive man
 CGm
Learned to talk with his brothers And live off the land.
 BbF
 He left his cave and he moved far away
 CGm
And he lived with his friends in a house that they'd made
 BbF
He learned to think and to work with his brain
 CGm
And he astounded his friends with all the knowledge he gained
 BbF
He wrote it down on a rock that he found
 CGmCGm
And he showed all his friends and they passed it around

 DC
And then education came that day.
 AmG
 The day it came was a sacred day.
 DC
 Education came that day
 AmG
 He thanked God for the friends he'd made.

 CGCGCGCG
 CG
Well man built a boat and he learned how to sail
 CG
And he travelled far and wide
 CG
Then he looked up above saw the stars in the sky
 AC
 So he learned how to fly.
 CG
 Thanks to all the mathematicians
 CG
And the inventors with their high I.Q.s
 C
And the professors in their colleges
 G
 Trying to feed me knowledge
 AC
 That I know I'll never use.

 BbF
 Thank you sir for the millions of words
 CGm
That you've handed me down and you've told me to learn
 BbF
 But I've got words in my ears and my eyes
 CGmCGm
I've got so many facts that I must memorize
 DC
Because education's doing me in
 AmG
 I want to stop but my head's in a swim
 DC
 Education drives me insane
 AmG
 I can't recall all the facts on my brain.
 DC
 Education came that day
 AmG
 The day it came was a sacred day
 DC
 Education saved the day
 AmG
 He thanked God for all the friends he made.

 CGCG
 CG
 Teacher, teach me how to read and write,
 CG
 You can teach me about biology,
 CG
But you can't tell me what I am living for
 CG
 'Cos that's still a mystery.
 CG
 Teacher, teach me about nuclear physics
 CG
 And teach me about the structure of man,
 CG
But all your endless calculations
 CG
 Can't tell me why I am.

Guitar solo

 CBbGmCBbGm
 No you can't tell me why I am,
 CBbGmCBmGm
 No you can't tell me why I am.

 CF
 Everybody needs education,
 CF
 Open Universities, education.
 CF
 Every race every creed, education.
 CFFFF
 And every little half-breed, education.     

 CF
 Every nationality, education.
 CF
 All the little people need education.
 DmGmEm
 Eskimos and pygmies need  
 CF
 And even aborigines, education.

 CF
 Well physics and geography, education.
 CF
 Philosophy and history, education.
 CF
 Science and biology, education,
 CF
 Geometry and poetry, education.
 CFCFCF
 Well, education, education, education, education 

 FBbFBbFBbFBbF
 (Repeat 'education' till end)

Albums this song can be found on:

* Schoolboys In Disgrace


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