Got not education, I'm just a fool in your town

No education, I'm just another fool in town

Yes first day I went to school, yes that sucker burn it down



I can't read, can't even write my name

I can't read, can't even write my name

Yes but that ain't none o' your fault, Po' Lightnin' is to blame



Mama done all she could, yes she did boy, yes to send this black man to school

Yes she done all she could, send this black boy to school

Yeah the first day I went there do you know, boy I broke my teacher's rule

Yes... I broke it



Ain't it a shame, ain't it a shame, way things happened to me

Ain't it a shame, way things happened to me

I went to school only one day and I didn't, learn my ABC's



Bad luck happened to me!