The Gift of Education
© 1975
Christmas came early this
year
Rockefella played Santa Claus
Bought politicians and
changed the laws
President made a lot of
promises
About how things are going to
be different
But empty stockings still
hang
On my Johnny’s classroom walls
My son and yours still fight
in a strange school’s halls
My child needs the gift of
Education
It does not matter
if the term applied
Is integration or segregation
You cannot integrate a
person’s mind
With blind, brute force
That is not the solution
Put your hand in your pocket
Stop squeezing the eagle
Send my child to school
In his own neighborhood
Busing my child away cross
town
Will not achieve the
integration
That I seek
Not while bias minds fight to
keep his beauty down
I pay taxes
But my child is still getting
hand me down clothes
Hand me down books, hand me
down schools
Hand me down teachers
Boys fighting boys and their
father’s too
That is enough!
Put your hand in your pocket
Stop squeezing the eagle
Build my child
A Good school
In his own neighborhood.
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