Obedience School - Brian Dewan

And when I was in obedience school

I could make a rabbit stew

I could fix a sewage pipe

I could build a beaver dam

Then I moved to a rooming house

No one tells me what to do

Now I play with bottle caps

I can break a drinking glass

People tell me every day

«Don't tell people what to do!»

Well, that’s all right‚ I’ll do it like you tell me to

Everybody is in charge

Cooks aplenty‚ making broth for everyone

Bumping into everyone

Back when I was in obedience school

I could fold a paper plane

I could wear a pilgrim hat

I could ring the dinner bell

Sit beside a metronome

Listen to an intercom

File into a corridor

Be made to do a jumping jack

Sing a song of loyalty

Wearing but a paper dress

Standing in the morning rain

Sing the song all o’er again

Spend the afternoon indoors

Making useful things from trash

Learn to fill a candy dish

Eat a can of tuna fish

Scour a scrub a basement sink

Sweep around a skating rink

Oh‚ those bygone days

They were so peaceful and great