Ask Daddy, He Won't Know
Now that they've abolished chrome work,
I'd like to call their attention to homework.
Here it is only three decades since my scholarship was famous,
And I'm an ignoramus.
I cannot think which goes sideways and which goes up and down,
A parallel or meridian,
Nor do I know the name of him who first translated the bible into Indian,
I see him only as an enterprising colonial Gideon.
I have difficulty with dates,
To say nothing of the Southern Central States.
Naturally the correct answers are just back of the tip of my toungue,
But try to explain that to your young.
I am overwhelmed by their erudite banter,
I am in no condition to differentiate between Tamerlane and Tam o' Shanter.
I reel, I sway, I am utterly exhausted;
Should you ask me when Chicago was founded,
I could only reply I didn't even know it was losted.
