School Days (Will D. Cobb and Gus Edwards song)

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| name = School Days

| cover = School-Days-1907.jpg

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| published = 1907

| writer = Gus Edwards, Will D. Cobb

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| misc = {{Audio sample

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| file = School days (1908 sound recording).mp3

| description =Recording of School Days, performed by Albert Campbell (1908)}}

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"School Days" is an American popular song written in 1907 by Will D. Cobb and Gus Edwards. Its subject is of a mature couple looking back sentimentally on their childhood together in primary school.{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100005129/|title=School days|last=|first=|date=|website=Library Of Congress|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=February 6, 2020}} The song was featured in a Broadway show of the same name, the first in a series of Edwards' school acts. It was the inspiration for many subsequent school acts, including the Marx Brothers' Fun in Hi Skule, their first major Vaudeville success.{{Cite web|url=https://www.marx-brothers.org/marxology/edwards.htm|title=Gus Edwards (The Marx Brothers Marxology)|website=Marx-brothers.org}}

The best known part of the song is its chorus:

{{poemquote|School days, school days

Dear old Golden Rule days

'Reading and 'riting and 'rithmetic

Taught to the tune of the hick'ry stick

You were my queen in calico

I was your bashful, barefoot beau

And you wrote on my slate, "I Love You, Joe"

When we were a couple o' kids}}{{Cite web|url=https://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/school-days-school-days/index.htm|title=School Days, School Days|website=Kids Environment Kids Health - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences|language=en|access-date=2020-02-08}}