California Couldn't Pay Our Education-The Foremen

[ti:California Couldn't Pay Our Education] [ar:The Foremen] [al:What's Left?] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]California Couldn't Pay Our Education - The Foremen [00:11.03]Our blood runs blue we're loyal men and true [00:16.18]The hope of a new generation [00:20.82] [00:21.44]But we don't speak too well [00:23.73]We can't read or add or spell [00:26.82]California couldn't pay our education [00:32.61] [00:36.31]Our rooms each fall were crowded wall to wall [00:41.43]Resplendent in squalid privation [00:46.77]And our texts were first-rate back in 1958 [00:52.08]California couldn't pay our education [00:56.88] [01:01.51]And three years on [01:04.03]When they noticed we were gone [01:06.70]They showered us with consideration [01:11.96]And they transferred our files to the hall of juveniles [01:17.32]California couldn't pay our education [01:22.35] [01:47.70]Now we've got great jobs; [01:51.20]I stock the salad bar at Bob's [01:54.02]And I polish knobs at Union Station [01:58.77] [01:59.37]And I practice law la la la la la la la [02:04.53]California couldn't pay our education [02:10.02] [02:13.98]The proprietor of our local liquor store [02:18.64] [02:19.20]Refused our request for a donation [02:24.53]But we changed his mind with a crowbar from behind [02:29.89]California couldn't pay our education [02:35.17] [02:39.28]They locked us away for three years and a day [02:44.46]Completing our alienation [02:49.79]But we learned from those men [02:52.18]How to not get caught again [02:56.52]California finally paid our education