The Kinks – Education (Ukulele)

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In a deep dark jungle long time ago

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Lived a lonesome caveman

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He was a solitary soul

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And he spent his playtime

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Chewing meat from bones.

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He didn't know how to talk much

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He only knew how to groan

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Then he lifted up his hands and reached to the sky

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Let out a yell and no one replied.

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Frustration and torment tore him inside

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Then he fell to the ground and he cried and he cried.

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But then education saved the day.

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He learned to speak and communicate

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Education saved the day.

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He thanked God for the friends he made.

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'Cos everybody needs an education

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Everybody needs an education.

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Black skin, red skin, yellow or white,

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Everybody needs to read and write

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Everybody needs an education.

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Thank the day when that primitive man

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Learned to talk with his brothers And live off the land.

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He left his cave and he moved far away

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And he lived with his friends in a house that they'd made

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He learned to think and to work with his brain

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And he astounded his friends with all the knowledge he gained

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He wrote it down on a rock that he found

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And he showed all his friends and they passed it around

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And then education came that day.

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The day it came was a sacred day.

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Education came that day

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He thanked God for the friends he'd made.

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Well man built a boat and he learned how to sail

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And he travelled far and wide

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Then he looked up above saw the stars in the sky

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So he learned how to fly.

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Thanks to all the mathematicians

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And the inventors with their high I.Q.s

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And the professors in their colleges

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Trying to feed me knowledge

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That I know I'll never use.

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Thank you sir for the millions of words

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That you've handed me down and you've told me to learn

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But I've got words in my ears and my eyes

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I've got so many facts that I must memorize

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Because education's doing me in

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I want to stop but my head's in a swim

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Education drives me insane

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I can't recall all the facts on my brain.

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Education came that day

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The day it came was a sacred day

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Education saved the day

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He thanked God for all the friends he made.

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Teacher, teach me how to read and write,

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You can teach me about biology,

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But you can't tell me what I am living for

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'Cos that's still a mystery.

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Teacher, teach me about nuclear physics

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And teach me about the structure of man,

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But all your endless calculations

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Can't tell me why I am.

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No you can't tell me why I am,

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No you can't tell me why I am.

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Everybody needs education,

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Open Universities, education.

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Every race every creed, education.

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And every little half-breed, education.

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Every nationality, education.

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All the little people need education.

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Eskimos and pygmies need

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And even aborigines, education.

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Well physics and geography, education.

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Philosophy and history, education.

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Science and biology, education,

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Geometry and poetry, education.

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Well, education, education, education, education

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(Repeat 'education' till end)