I was talking with Jan awhile back and made a comment that I couldn't think of too many songs about teachers. So this is our tribute to teachers. maybe not real commercial but at any rate something that we felt needed writing

Just a Teacher © Roger Sosnowski/Janice Hopkins
 
Verse 1

By fifth grade I was a troubled kid with a dad I’d never known
Mom was married to her job,never cared where I would go
So when I went back to school that Fall, nothin’ much mattered to me
But my life started changing, there in classroom 103
 
Lift 1:
 
At first I wouldn’t listen, just hid behind a curtain of fate
Miss Taft knew I was hurtin’, said Jodi, it’s not too late
 
Chorus:
 
Life has confused you
I’ve worn those shoes too
When all of the bad times show
 
Your feelings run deeper
Than a fast, raging river
Now you ask me how I know…..
 
Yeah, I guess you’re right….I’m Just a Teacher
 
Verse 2:
 
Over time she made me start to see, I could be so much more
When life came crashing down she was always my support
I made it through those troubled years, things started falling into place
I’d always planned to call her, couldn’t find words to say
 
Lift 2:
 
Every time I’d listened, when she told me that it’s never too late
Though she knew I was hurtin’, said, Jodi, this is not your fate
 
Chorus:

Life has confused you
I’ve worn those shoes too
When all of the bad times show
 
Your feelings run deeper
Than a fast, raging river
Now you ask me how I know…..
 
Yeah, I guess you’re right….I’m Just a Teacher
 
Bridge:
 
While passing through Macon, I stopped by
She looked up from her desk…..like back in ‘85
Handed her a photo of my new class and me….said, “Go ahead and keep‘er”
Written at the bottom….”Love, Jodi….Just a Teacher”
 
Chorus Repeat:
 
Life has confused you
I’ve worn those shoes too
When all of the bad times show
 
Your feelings run deeper
Than a fast, raging river
Now you ask me how I know…..
 
Yeah, I guess you’re right….I’m Just a Teacher
 
Outro:

She changed my life when I believed her
She was always so much more than….Just a Teacher.
 
 

Last edited by RogerS; 05/03/11 11:01 AM.
Roger Sosnowski
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