C
My little girl said mommy the school room breaks my heart
F
Arithmetic reminds me that you and dad’s apart
C
F
Subtraction starts me breaking up cause him from us leaves too
C
G7
C
And with our home divided now I cry a lot in school
F
C
Don’t make me go to school no more and cry through every test
F
D7
G7
I’m so ashamed when children see the teardrops on my desk
C
F
Imagine how you feel to hear your child say this to you
C
G7
C
Don’t make me go to school no more and make the fifth grade blue
F
And when I turn wet papers in Miss Dickens only stares
C
F
So please may I be absent mom like daddy is from home
C
G7
C
I’d rather fail than face the class they know my daddy’s gone
F
C
Don’t make me go to school no more and cry through every test
F
D7
G7
I’m so ashamed when children see the teardrops on my desk
C
F
Imagine how you feel to hear your child say this to you
C
G7
F
C
Don’t make me go to school no more and make the fifth grade b-l ue
C
G7
F
D7