Let's take a trip on memory's ship
Sail to the old village school house
Anchor outside the school door
there's you and there's me
A couple of kids once more
School days, school days,
dear old golden rule days
Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic
Taught to the tune of a hick'ry stick
You were my queen in calico,
I was your bashful barefoot beau
And you wrote on my slate,
When we were a couple of kids
'Member the hill, Nellie Darling
And the oak tree that grew
They've built forty stories upon
And the oaks an old chestnut now
So fragrant with clover and maize
and preferred bus'ness plots
School days, school days,
dear old golden rule days
Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic
Taught to the tune of a hick'ry stick
You were my queen in calico,
I was your bashful barefoot beau
And you wrote on my slate,
When we were a couple of kids