Student suspended for singing `threatening' song

Access North Georgia/ Associated Press ^ | 5/9/06 | Associated Press

[Amelia]

Student suspended for singing `threatening' song
by The Associated Press

SUWANEE - A student at Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwanee has been suspended for a week after a teacher accused her of singing a threatening song in class.

Sixteen-year-old Beth Ann Cox admits singing the parody of ``On top of Ol' Smokey,'' but she denies any wrongdoing.

She was suspended yesterday for five days.

The lyrics that alarmed the German teacher were, ``On top of Ol' Smokey, all covered with blood, I shot my poor teacher with a .44 slug.''

[Amelia]

We used to sing that as kids, too, but in this day of school shootings & zero-tolerance, you'd think kids would have more sense than to do it in class.

[Amelia]

What do you think?

[toast]

I shot my poor teacher with a .44 slug.

She's lucky she was only suspended.

[kinoxi]

i didn't think i needed glassed till i read this thread :)

[SteveMcKing]

Enroll her in glee club.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

I only knew "On top of Spaghetti".

On top of spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball,
When somebody sneezed.

[Michael.SF.]

We sang that ditty as well, but old Smokey was covered with grass and well, you can guess the rest.

Good thing she did not sing 'eenie meanie minie moe'.

[traderrob6]

We sang the same song in gradeschool in the 60s, too young to really even think about what we were singing. Hrmless then likely the same now.

[mountainlyons]

Why was there no reaction to Gloria Trevi's rewording the Star Spangled Banner with lyrics that the Mexicans were taking over the USA?

[Amelia]

She's lucky she was only suspended.

True, she could have been expelled, I suppose.

[Amelia]

Sorry! :-)

[Dinsdale]

Glory Glory Halliluya

Teacher hit me with a ruler.

Met her at the door, with a loaded 44

Now teacher ain't techin' no more.

[Amelia]

We sang all those variations in grade school in the 60s as well, and thought nothing of it.

I will say that my mother & my aunt, who were grade school teachers, forbade us to sing the version about shooting the teacher where they could hear it, although none of us would have seriously thought about shooting anyone.

We thought we were pretty cool knowing all the "edgy" versions of the song, however.

[lightman]

Three decades ago around this time of the year the favorite song was:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burnin' of the school
We have tortured ev'ry teacher we have broken ev'ry rule....

You'd get the rest of the year "off" for singing that today.

[Amelia]

I'd forgotten that one! Mom wouldn't let us sing that one either! :-)

[Owl558]

"We sang the same song in gradeschool in the 60s..."

Here too in the 70's. Isn't it nice how the classics never go out of style. Remember:

Hi ho, hi ho
Its off to school I go
With hand grenades
And razor blades
Hi ho, hi ho, hi, ho...

[TheZMan]

This is retarded. I sang these songs right along with all my classmates in elementary and middle school.

Didn't mean I was threaghtening the teacher, didn't mean I was going to snap off and kill people, didn't mean anything other than I didn't like school and it was an outlet in a time where coming up with something intellectual to say was improbable at best.

[Dinsdale]

My personal favorite (because it skewers a commie anthem).

'This Land is My Land'

This land is my land
It is'nt your land
I got a shotgun
And you don't got one
If you don't get off
I'll blast your head off
This land is private property!

[Amelia]

When I was in high school, we abandoned those songs for Alice Cooper's "School's Out" - which probably wouldn't be a good idea either, but I'm always tempted to play it over the intercom at full blast as the kids leave on the last day. ;-)

[Prokopton]

Glory, glory hallelujah

Teacher hit me with a ruler

So I bopped her in the bean with a rotten tangerine

And she sank like a submarine