School - Boys, This Is Your Teacher

Written by Paul McCartneyCarl Davis

Album This song officially appears on the Liverpool Oratorio Official album.
Timeline This song has been officially released in 1991

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Song facts

Boys, This Is Your Teacher” is the sixth track of the second movement – entitled “School” – of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio, released in 1991.

II: SCHOOL.  1953. The war baby – Shanty – now 11 years old and at school, celebrates his Liverpool upbringing. With classmates, he skips lessons to “sag off” and sunbathe in the graveyard of Liverpool Cathedral. Sleeping on a gravestone, he dreams of ghosts of the past and the future. One of the ghosts, Mary Dee, is his bride-to-be. Waking and back at school, Shanty and his classmates are taught Spanish in the form of a folk song by their new mistress, Miss Inkley.

“Liverpool Oratorio” liner notes

Last updated on July 10, 2019

Lyrics

HEADMASTER
Boys, this is your teacher.
Her name is Miss Inkley.
She will teach you Spanish.
She was in the war
Fighting with the troops.
You may call her Sir!

BOYS
SIR?

MISS INKLEY
First of all today
You will learn a song
In a foreign tongue.
You will follow me
As I say the words.
We will now begin...

Officially appears on


Liverpool Oratorio

Official album • Released in 1991

1:23 • LiveL1

Paul McCartney :
Executive producer
Eddie Klein :
Additional engineer
John Timperley :
Balance engineer
Carl Davis :
Orchestra conductor
Peter Mew :
Additional engineer, Editor
John Fraser :
Producer
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra :
Orchestra
Nic Raine :
Assistant to carl davis
Martin Astle :
Additional engineer
Tom Leader :
Additional engineer, Editor
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir :
Choir
Choristers of Liverpool Cathedral :
Choir
Ian Tracey :
Chorus master and master of the choriste
Willard White :
Bass
Sally Burgess :
Mezzo-soprano

Concert From the concert in Liverpool, United Kingdom on Jun 28, 1991


Selections from Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio

Official album • Released in 1992

1:23 • LiveL1

Paul McCartney :
Executive producer
Eddie Klein :
Additional engineer
John Timperley :
Balance engineer
Carl Davis :
Orchestra conductor
Peter Mew :
Additional engineer, Editor
John Fraser :
Producer
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra :
Orchestra
Nic Raine :
Assistant to carl davis
Martin Astle :
Additional engineer
Tom Leader :
Additional engineer, Editor
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir :
Choir
Choristers of Liverpool Cathedral :
Choir
Ian Tracey :
Chorus master and master of the choriste
Willard White :
Bass
Sally Burgess :
Mezzo-soprano

Concert From the concert in Liverpool, United Kingdom on Jun 28, 1991

Live performances

“School - Boys, This Is Your Teacher” has been played in 2 concerts.

Latest concerts where School - Boys, This Is Your Teacher has been played



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