The Foremen - California Couldn't Pay Our Education lyrics

Our blood runs blue, we're loyal men and true The hope of a new generation But we don't speak too well, we can't read or add or spell California couldn't pay our education Our rooms each fall were crowded wall to wall Resplendent in squalid privation And our texts were first-rate back in 1958 California couldn't pay our education And three years on, when they noticed we were gone They showered us with consideration And they transferred our files to the hall of juveniles California couldn't pay our education Now we've got great jobs; I stock the salad bar at Bob's And I polish knobs at Union Station And I practice law... la la la la la la la California couldn't pay our education The proprietor of our local liquor store Refused our request for a donation But we changed his mind with a crowbar from behind California couldn't pay our education They locked us away for three years and a day Completing our alienation But we learned from those men how to not get caught again California finally paid our education