The Wellstone School Song

[ConsAreLiars]

Watched the Wellstone Documentary on Link TV. Catch it if you can if it shows up again. Or buy it at http://www.buzzflash.com/reviews/05/rev05027.html

It ended with singing by the children of the renamed Paul and Sheila Wellstone Elementary School of a song that seemed to capture their spirit and aspirations as well as anything. All of us, actually, excepting the monsters. So I looked around for the lyrics and the one working link I found was in a post here on DU by sfxpat2000 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2131624#2131725 .

So thanks to Pat for keeping these words out of the memory pit. The Wellstone School Song and is sung to the tune of Woodie Guthrie's Union Maid, primarily the chorus - http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Union_Maid.htm .
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Chorus:

My school is Wellstone
I go to Wellstone
I learn at Wellstone
I grow at Wellstone
My school is Wellstone
I go to Wellstone
And Wellstone is the school for me.

There's a school called Wellstone
That I'm telling you about
I think that it's terrific
Of that there is no doubt.
You can find it in St. Paul
The nicest city in the land
I'd like to tell, all the world
Wellstone school is grand.

(Chorus)

Both the teachers and the students
I think are pretty great
We are working hard to be
The finest school in all the state.
We have vision for the future
You can put us to the test
I think Paul and Sheila would agree
We're going to do our best.

(Chorus)

We are confident and caring
We are hard working and true
The principal and all the staff
Will work quite hard for you.
Send your children here to Wellstone
Education they'll receive
We'll do our best to teach them all
In that you can believe.
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The lyrics to Union Maid for comparison, and to remind you of the tune if you're not sure:
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There once was a union maid, she never was afraid
Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid.
She went to the union hall when a meeting it was called,
And when the Legion boys come 'round
She always stood her ground.

CHORUS:
Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,
I'm sticking to the union, I'm sticking to the union.
Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,
I'm sticking to the union 'til the day I die.

This union maid was wise to the tricks of company spies,
She couldn't be fooled by a company stool, she'd always organize the guys.
She always got her way when she struck for better pay.
She'd show her card to the National Guard
And this is what she'd say:

CHORUS

You gals who want to be free, just take a tip from me;
Get you a man who's a union man and join the ladies' auxiliary.
Married life ain't hard when you got a union card,
A union man has a happy life when he's got a union wife.

CHORUS
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