From the “Music Box Revue,” 1921. Words and Music by Irving Berlin. Cover Art by William Bòlin. Copyright ©25 Nov 1921. Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
Sheet Music
Accompaniment
Lyrics
Hookey, hookey, Oh how we love to play
Hookey, hookey, There’ll be no school today
Our lesson kept us guessing
That’s why we ran away
Say Mother, Father wants us to go to school
But we’d rather be in a swimming pool
When the sun is in the sky
That is just the reason why
Refrain
We’ve got the schoolhouse blues
We’ve got the schoolhouse blues
Tired of reading history, Don’t care for geography
We’re getting oh so sick of grammar and arithmetic
That’s why we gave the teacher the sack
And we don’t intend to go back
If she doesn’t like it, she can sit on a tack
We’ve got the schoolhouse blues