An Ode to Spring Vacation, 2022 (via various song lyrics)

Part I: 

Teach your children well

You just call on me, brother, when you need a hand; We all need somebody to lean on

You can go your own way

Take it easy

That's why I'm easy; I’m easy like Sunday morning

If we took a holiday; Took some time to celebrate, Just one day out of life. It would be, It would be so nice.

Part  II: 

Its a beautiful morning

Groovin' on a Sunday afternoon; Really couldn't get away too soon

Smell the sea and feel the sky; Let your soul and spirit fly; Into the mystic

Ain’t no mountain high enough

We were running against the wind

Summer breeze, makes me feel fine

I just want to celebrate another day of living.

These are days you’ll remember. Never before and never since, I promise, will the whole world be warm as this. And as you feel it, you'll know it's true that you are blessed and lucky. 

Life sounds like; Woah oh-oh-oh-oh!; This is what it sounds like.

Part III: 

Shower the people with love

God only knows where I’d be without you

I wanna dance with somebody

Dancing in the moonlight; Everybody's feeling warm and bright; It's such a fine and natural sight, Everybody's dancing in the moonlight.

And maybe too, if you would believe you too might be Overjoyed.

So I, I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up; And this woman was singin' my song

We'll go dancing in the dark; Walking through the park; And reminiscing

Part IV: 

Closing time

Closer I am to fine

The hardest to learn was the least complicated

If you got the notion, I second that emotion

I've gotta get home, There's a garden to tend

I’m leaving on a jet plane

Please celebrate me home

Home is wherever we are if there’s love here too

Baby, how you feelin'? (Feelin' good as hell)

Steve Banno

Steve Banno, Jr. is an award-winning social studies educator, author, and creator of the widely popular high school course exploring the science of happiness, kindness, and altruism, which he has taught over his twenty-five-year career.

https://www.stevebanno.com
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