Monkeys - John McCutcheon

I went to school this morning

It was the first day of the year

Took out my paper and my pencil

And I opened up my mind and my ears

The teacher said, «Now students take your places

«Everybody settle in your desk

«The first class in going to be science

«Gonna use the Bible as our text.»

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There ain’t no monkeys in you

There’re none in me, I know

And there ain’t no monkeys in Kansas

‘Cause the school board to me so

So let’s get rid of Pythagoras

Relativity and all the rest

Cause if you can’t find it in Genesis

It ain’t gonna be in our test

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Now, the land is flat in Kansas

As anyone can see

And if the school board says that the world is flat

Well, that’s good enough for me Chorus

Every culture has a way to see creation

Each religion has a version of its own

So if you aren’t Christian or Jewish

You better hope Kansas ain’t your home

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I’ve learned that faith is one thing

And knowledge is something else

One doesn’t rule the other one out

As Einstein said himself

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Now, God gave us intelligence

And God he gave us brains

But I guess he ran just a little bit short

On that school board on the plains

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