Advise,Sin & the Sally Rod (1121)

Advice sin and the sally rod © Tony Fallon 112117

If you took every bit of advice that was suggested
You probably never would have been arrested
Don’t do this and don’t do that and do not sin
If you paid attention you’d be in the loony bin

Parents were very strict you couldn’t break a rule
Teachers were tougher when you went to school
Read and spell subtract multiply and divide
And she used the sally rod if you ever lied

Between the priest and teacher, your head would spin
When they started to tell you the ugly ways of sin
At a mission, those wild priests would loudly yell
That everybody in our parish was headed straight for hell

The cruelty in schools should not have been tolerated
Rules and sally rods should have been confiscated
That this cruelty continued so long after the uprising
Is amazing and if alive they should be apologizing

I guess it didn’t hurt us our sins to confess
And the strictness kept some of us out of distress
But they say mistreated children never will forget
I never beat my children and I have no regret.