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[Verse 1]
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When I was a little kid, not so long ago
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I had to learn a lot of stuff I didn’t even know
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How to dress myself, tie my shoes, how to jump a rope
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How to smile for a picture without looking like a dope
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But of all the things I learned my favorite of them all
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Was a little poem hanging on the Kindergarten wall:
[Chorus]
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Of all you learn here remember this the best:
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Don’t hurt each other and clean up your mess
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Take a nap every day, wash before you eat
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Hold hands. Stick together. Look before you cross the street.
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And remember the seed in the little paper cup:
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First the root goes down and then the plant grows up!
[Chorus]
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Of all you learn here remember this the best:
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Don’t hurt each other and clean up your mess
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Take a nap every day, wash before you eat
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Hold hands. Stick together. Look before you cross the street.
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And remember the seed in the little paper cup:
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First the root goes down and then the plant grows up!
[Verse 2]
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Well it was 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade, 4th grade too
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Where I had to learn a lot of stuff that big kids do
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To add, subtract and multiply, read and write and play
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How to sit in a little uncomfortable desk for nearly half a day
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But of all the things they taught me, of all the great and small
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Still my favorite was the poem on the Kindergarten wall
[Chorus]
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Of all you learn here remember this the best:
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Don’t hurt each other and clean up your mess
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Take a nap every day, wash before you eat
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Hold hands. Stick together. Look before you cross the street.
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And remember the seed in the little paper cup:
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First the root goes down and then the plant grows up!
[Verse 3]
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But lately I’ve been worried as I look around and see
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An awful lot of grown-ups acting foolish as can be
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I know there’s lots of things to know I haven’t mastered yet
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Still it seems there’s real important stuff that grownups soon forget
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I’m sure we’d all be better off if we would just recall
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That little poem hanging on the kindergarten wall.
[Chorus]
G7 C F C
Of all you learn here remember this the best:
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Don’t hurt each other and clean up your mess
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Take a nap every day, wash before you eat
Am F Dm G
Hold hands. Stick together. Look before you cross the street.
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And remember the seed in the little paper cup:
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First the root goes down and then the plant grows up!
