Holiday is coming(2ce)
No more teacher's cane
No more morning bells...
Teaching in a school as part of my NYSC service provided me
with an opportunity to hear the song again and I felt so nostalgic... You
should have seen us then when we sang this song, we did it with so much
enthusiasm, vibrancy and joy. Who didn't want to be free from the teachers
cane? It was the most dreadful instrument of correction in those days; six or
twelve strokes and you are in another realm - a realm of pain. I feared those
bodily inflictions caused by the cane but I was somehow spared from it, for I
had no flesh covering my bones where harm or pain could be inflicted on. I saw
this as a liability but my friends thought it was an asset. Well, whether asset
or liability, I was painfully thin, ...so thin that I could be compared with a
toothpick.
