LEARN LIKE A TEXAN - parody of Walk Like an Egyptian

Since Texas buys so many textbooks, the conservative Texas school board gets to dictate some strange content in the text books all our kids use.

NOTE ONE: This should not offend Texans in general - not my intent, anyhow; NOTE TWO: I did not do the dancing girl bit - credited & linked at end.

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LYRICS:

LEARN LIKE A TEXAN Jim Terr © 2011

Never doubt the power of a small group
To make a really big difference.
The geniuses on the Texas school board
Want us all thinkin' like Texans.

They've got their own creation theory
And evolution's a fairy tale.
Corporations are people (don't you know),
And this country it is up for sale.

Science types say science rocks
But hay 0 - don't you know.. hell no - the way to go--.
Is - learn like a Texan.

Now they buy a lotta, lotta school books
A-way down there in Texas land.
So whatever they get in their texts
We get the same thing in our hands.

So the school kids everywhere
Learn that there ain't no thing like climate change
Just like they know (don't you know)
Way out there on the Texas range.

All the kids say it's hot as hell
But hell no -- hay o --way to go - don't you know...
They're learnin' like Texans...


This is the state, after all,
Rick Perry and "W" came from.
Which ain't to say (not at all)
That everybody down there's dumb.

If you think America's built as a
Strictly Christian country -- cuz it ain't --
And the world was made in seven days
And Ronald Reagan is a saint.

If Texas says the moon is made
Of little bricks of green cheese
All the other states (don't you know)
Say we'll take a million textbooks please.

Pretty soon with any luck
(Hay ho --don't you know - hay oh- way to go)
We're all learnin like Texans.
All thinking like Texans..

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[mphello]

The fuzzy video of the girl dancing in the background: where is it from?

It's not the Bangles' original music video for this song (which is on YouTube), right?

[hymiehymie]

@mphello It's a game video or something - I think I linked to it in the INFO.

[HorseBug0]

I'm a Texan and lemme tell ya, I definitely don't find us a dumb group. At least my school anyways. All VERY bright hahaha

[hymiehymie]

@HorseBug0 no way meant to imply Texans were dumb - just commenting on school book folks..

[izy12345678910]

This songs so white. It reminds me of the commercial that goes

"This is America , Learn English!"

I think it was talking about immigrants. Again. So white.

[kcsing1]

Fantastic job! Very clever and powerful! Love it!

[xorthfred]

In July 2011, the Texas Board of Education, which oversees the Texas Education From Wikipedia: "Agency, did not approve anti-evolution instructional materials submitted by International Databases, LLC, while continuing to approve materials from mainstream publishers.[39]

Sorry but courts have ruled that Texas MUST teach evolution. So the premise behind this video, that Texas does not teach evolution, is completely false.

[xorthfred]

We should teach a healthy skepticism of all theories of man's origin. Anyone who has watched the history channel over the past two months realizes that there is a strong alternative that we are the result of gene splicing by ancient aliens. This is counter to the mainstream archeology that states that Egyptian slaves built the pyramids and that man is the result of millions of years of evolution on planet earth from single cell organisms to our present state.

[kimsings]

Right on Jim! The "good christian folk" down in Texas sure don't want any truth mucking up their ideas on any important, crucial issues of the day. Despicable they truly are.