Schooldays - The Kinks

If ever you think about the happiest days of your life

Cast back your mind for a while

And remember the time when you were a child

Don’t think of things that make you sad

Just remember all the good times that you had

Do you remember only happy days

Full of flaming Junes and summer holidays?

Or do you remember those stormy Novembers

As we walked in the wind and the rain?

Schooldays were such happy days

Now they seem so far away

I remember and I’ll always treasure

Schooldays were the happiest days of your life

But we never appreciate the good times we have

Until it’s too late

I miss all the acquaintances we made

And I’d go back if I could only find a way

Schooldays were the happiest days

Though at the time they filled me with dismay

We only remember what we choose to remember

When I was a schoolboy I loathed regulations and rules

I hated my textbooks and my school uniform

'Cos it made me conform

And teachers were always disobeyed

But I’d go back if I could only find a way

Schooldays were the happiest days

Now they seem so far away

I remember and I’ll always treasure

Schooldays were the happiest days of your life

But we never appreciate the good times we have

Until it’s too late

Now I wish I hadn’t strayed

And I’d go back if I could only find a way

Schooldays