School Days (1907 song)

"School Days" is an American popular song written in 1907 by Will Cobb and Gus Edwards. Its subject is of a mature couple looking back sentimentally on their childhood together in primary school. The best known part of the song is its chorus: School days, school daysDear old Golden Rule days'Reading and 'riting and 'rithmeticTaught to the tune of the hick'ry stickYou were my queen in calicoI was your bashful, barefoot beauAnd you wrote on my slate, "I Love You, Joe"When we were a couple o' kids

School Days (1907 song)

"School Days" is an American popular song written in 1907 by Will Cobb and Gus Edwards. Its subject is of a mature couple looking back sentimentally on their childhood together in primary school. The best known part of the song is its chorus: School days, school daysDear old Golden Rule days'Reading and 'riting and 'rithmeticTaught to the tune of the hick'ry stickYou were my queen in calicoI was your bashful, barefoot beauAnd you wrote on my slate, "I Love You, Joe"When we were a couple o' kids