What a Gove we have in Michael

What a friend we have in Michael

Gove, who likes to change our ways

Speaks out without ever thinking

Lengthens all our learning days.

When the holidays are over

Michael won't leave us alone

Tells us it won't be till night-time

That the kids will all get home.

If your school was short one Bible,

Govey's gift was just the thing.

Don't expect to understand it

This was auth'rised by a King.

If you want to teach Creation

As a scientific fact

Get in your school application

By our Michael you'll be backed.

If you're planning for your children

with your husband, partner, wife

You may worry how unstable

is their academic life.

Will they sit a baccalaureate

GCEs, course work, set text?

Michael never is discouraged

School Certificate will be next.

Now the holidays are shorter

all the staff have dirty looks

in three weeks' summer vacation

all they did was mark some books

Now they've got to set more homework

To be marked in the small hours

Thanks to an elf-faced politician

Carried away with his own powers.


THIS HYMN BOOK HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM
THE "LITTLE PEBBLES" ACADEMY
HUSBORNE CRAWLEY