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Thanks to Malvina Reynolds for the melody. New words by Barry Lane.

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Little Programs

Little programs in the classroom
Little programs made of ticky tacky
Little programs in the classroom
Little programs all the same
There red one and a green one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And there all made out of Ticky tacky
And they all teach just the same.

Then the teachers from the classroom
Go to the inservice day where they learn
To teach the program and they learn to teach the same
There’s no thinking,there’s no dreaming, theres no using imagination
And they all teach ticky tacky
And they all teach just the same.

Then the student from the classroom
Follow fill in bubbles on the work sheets
And they answers all the questions
To recive a passing grade
There’s no thinking, theres no dreaming there’s no using imagination
And they alll learn ticky tacky and they all learn just the same

Then they grow up, work for business that want innovation
And they send them to a training where a man shouts t them
Your not thinking , your not dreaming, your not using imagination
Your ideas are ticky tacky and you all think just the same,

The well lobbied polititicians say our teachers are failing us
Cause the students aren’t perfoming on the ticky tacky test
Their not learning, or achieving and receiving the highest scores
But here’s a company with a new program which will help them do this best

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from More Than A Number: Songs for Sane Schools, released May 12, 2013

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Barry Lane Vermont

I write songs about kindness for children and songs about hope and justice for adults.

I love Pete Seeger, and believe, as he did, that a single song can help change the world by uniting hearts and minds.


We are the mixed fruit of one tree,

Live in peace and unity.

Forget the old
embrace the new,

Less me, me, me,
more

You, you, you.

For now is the New Day. ... more

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