No Education

No Education - Lightnin' Hopkins

Got not education

I'm just a fool in your town

No education

I'm just another fool in town

Yes first day I went to school

Yes that sucker burn it down

I can't read

Can't even write my name

I can't read

Can't even write my name

Yes but that ain't none o' your fault

Po' lightnin' is to blame

Mama done all she could yes she did boy

Yes to send this black man to school

Yes she done all she could

Send this black boy to school

Yeah the first day I went there do you know

Boy I broke my teacher's rule

Yes I broke it

Ain't it a shame

Ain't it a shame

Way things happened

To me

Ain't it a shame

Way things happened to me

I went to school only one days and I didn't

Learn my A B C

Bad luck happened to me