Soap Opera Harvey Andrews

[Verse 1]
On the bus to school again
Still no money for a car
How long ago the day they said
"Teach and you'll go far"?

[Chorus]
But pretty little girl, pretty little girl, pretty little girl
Don't sit next to me
Pretty little girl, pretty little girl, pretty little girl
Don't sit next to me

[Verse 2]
Twenty years of teaching boys
Ink and think and incantation
Fifteen empty years with Mary
Talk and chalk and registration

[Chorus]
Pretty little girl, pretty little girl, pretty little girl
Don't sit next to me
Pretty little girl, pretty little girl, pretty little girl
Don't sit next to me

[Verse 3]
Things could have been different for us
If we could have had a child
It's far too long since Mary laughed
Far too long since Mary smiled