When pupils attended school
About fifty years ago
The hardships they endured
That's not yet been told
The schools that they attend
Were very poor you know
Their structures could not take it
To keep out the wind and cold
To heat these schools were impossible
With one pot-bellied stove
The wood they usually had to bring
Had to be handled with a glove
In winter pupils left their homes
A few junks in their arms
No roads were then ploughed
Just face the snow and storms
When they did get to school
They would light the fire but then
It would take about an hour
For the heat to comfort them
The modern schools built today
With facilities of every kind
The pupils do not suffer
Same as in olden times
There are buses taking them to school
And it's so warm within
They do not have to rub their hands
To bring the life in them
When pupils got their education
In these hard times of old
T'was drilled well within them
They would never let it go
There is an old saying
When things are very hard to get
You feel better when you get them
This you don't forget.