education and ralph s c h o o l you gotta go to school and beat that bell when the alarm clock wakesring ding dong we re gonna start our rap about this song monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday the weekend s here well listen when i was very young i used to sit around the house watching oil can harry battle mighty mouse until my mother said son that s not the way to be you ve gotta go to school and learn your abcs i said is that it mom she said that s not even half you ve gotta go to school you gotta learn some math you gotta learn how to count one two three and then get brushed up on the history my first day of school i ll never forget my teacher said recite the alphabet i said a e m um l r and as you can see i didn t get very far the teacher said son there s nothing to it before the day s over you ll learn how to do it and not only that you ll learn how to read and that s one thing in life you ll always need  well school s not all work there s fun things to do like gym lunch and recess too kindergarten was easy it was mostly play what i was worried about was elementary s c h o o l you gotta go to school and beat that bell when the alarm clock wakesring ding dong we re gonna start our rap about this song s c h o o l you gotta go to school and beat that bell when the alarm clock wakesring ding dong we re gonna start our rap about this song ha now it started out wrong i took another turn i didn t want to study didn t even want to learn didn t want to go to class i was always late because school became something that i started to hate started hanging with my boys didn t mean no harm we was going around the school pulling fire alarms i was a chilly homeboy yes i was down because i came to school just to mess around i started hanging in the halls and writing on the walls until i got started playing basketball but i didn t have a job so i couldn t get paid and i couldn t play ball because of my grades but i still used to practice each and every day in case the coach decided to let me play but it didn t work out the way i planned so i ran to a man who said he can understand the problems i was going through he said son it s all about going to school so i shut up and shipped out turned in my keys and now i m moving up to the big leagues high school s c h o o l you gotta go to school and beat that bell when the alarm clock wakesring ding dong we re gonna start our rap about this song s c h o o l you gotta go to school and beat that bell when the alarm clock wakesring ding dong we re gonna start our rap about this song and ralph monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday the weekend s here so check it out check check i m feeling cool cause i was going on to something they call high school and i m feeling funny cause things aren t the same wondering why nobody knows my name that became something that i started to miss and now that i m here it feels like a big diss but anyway i had to leave i had something to achieve it was singing yeah that s what i wanted to do so i got a tutor because i m no fool dropping out of school is quite absurd and it s up to new edition to spread the word stay in school s c h o o l you gotta go to school and beat that bell s c h o o l you gotta go to school and beat that bell s c h o o l you gotta go to school and beat that bell s c h o o l you gotta go to school and beat that bell s c h o o l you gotta go to school and beat that bell s c h o o l you gotta go to school and beat that bell and ralph and ralph 