<p>Dmd77 and EK–every year when my kids were young, on the last day of school we blasted “School’s Out” for them. (I love traditions!:))</p>
<p>Well, if we’re going in that direction:</p>
<p>*Well I dont care about history.
Rock, rock, rocknroll high school
cause thats not where I wanna be.
Rock, rock, rocknroll high school
I just wanna have some kicks.
I just wanna get some chicks.
Rock, rock, rock, rock, rocknroll high school</p>
<p>Well the girls out there knock me out, you know.
Rock, rock, rocknroll high school
Cruisin around in my gto.
Rock, rock, rocknroll high school
I hate the teachers and the principal.
Dont wanna be taught to be no fool.
Rock, rock, rock, rock, rocknroll high school</p>
<p>Fun fun rocknroll highschool.
Fun fun rocknroll highschool.
Fun fun rocknroll highschool.
Fun fun, oh baby.*</p>
<p>EK: you’re absolutely right. “We don’t need no education” is indeed Pink Floyd. And “School’s Out” is right along the lines of what I was thinking.</p>
<p>Another good one is “For Good”, off of the Wicked soundtrack. That was at our graduation last year (the chorus sang it) and it was beautiful.</p>
<p>Purple Haze - Hendrix.</p>
<p>Other songs that might make parents weep:</p>
<p>Oh wow, man !
Wait a second man. whaddaya think the teachers gonna look like this year ?
My butt, man !
T-t-teacher stop that screaming, teacher dont you see ?
Dont wanna be no uptown fool.
Maybe I should go to hell, but Im doin well,
Teacher needs to see me after school.
Chorus:
I think of all the education that I missed.
But then my homework was never quite like this.
Got it bad, got it bad, got it bad,
Im hot for teacher.
I got it bad, so bad,
Im hot for teacher.
Spoken:
Hey, I heard you missed us, were back !
I brought my pencil
Gimme something to write on, man
I heard about your lessons, but lessons are so cold.
I know about this school.
Little girl from cherry lane, how did you get so bold ?
How did you know that golden rule ?
Chorus
(guitar solo)
Oh man, I think the clock is slow
I dont feel tardy
Class dismissed</p>
<p>It’s poetry in motion
She turned her tender eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
“She blinded me with science!”
And failed me in biology </p>
<p>When I’m dancing close to her
“Blinding me with science - science!”
I can smell the chemicals
“Blinding me with science - science!”
“Science!”
“Science!” </p>
<p>Mmm - but it’s poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
And failed me in geometry </p>
<p>When she’s dancing next to me
Blinding me with science - science!"
“Science!”
I can hear machinery
“Blinding me with science - science!”
“Science!”</p>
<p>It’s poetry in motion
And now she’s making love to me
The spheres’re in commotion
The elements in harmony
She blinded me with science
“She blinded me with science!”
And hit me with technology</p>
<p>“Good heavens Miss Sakamoto - you’re beautiful!”
I - I don’t believe it!
There she goes again!
She’s tidied up, and I can’t find anything!
All my tubes and wires
And careful notes
And antiquated notions </p>
<p>But! - it’s poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
“She blinded me with - with science!”</p>
<p>She blinded me with -</p>
<p>Purple Haze - Hendrix.</p>
<p>Poor Jimi
ds school is probably going to rededicate the auditorium to Quincy Jones once it is finished- but I wish they could find some place in the school to recognize Hendrix
( they were both alums- although Jimi didn’t graduate & when he came back to play a concert- it wasn’t received well)</p>
<p>love Thomas Dolby
That is a good choice 
maybe not for graduation though</p>
<p>U2’s “Beautiful Day” is awesome to exit to!!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NmmLvfzMuE[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NmmLvfzMuE</a></p>
<p>The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There’s no room
No space to rent in this town </p>
<p>You’re out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you’re not moving anywhere </p>
<p>You thought you’d found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace </p>
<p>It’s a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away </p>
<p>You’re on the road
But you’ve got no destination
You’re in the mud
In the maze of her imagination </p>
<p>You love this town
Even if that doesn’t ring true
You’ve been all over
And it’s been all over you </p>
<p>It’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
It’s a beautiful day </p>
<p>Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I’m not a hopeless case </p>
<p>See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out </p>
<p>It was a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
Beautiful day </p>
<p>Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I’m not a hopeless case </p>
<p>What you don’t have you don’t need it now
What you don’t know you can feel it somehow
What you don’t have you don’t need it now
Don’t need it now
Was a beautiful day</p>
<p>Well I did not think the girl
Could be so cruel
And I’m never going back
To my old school :p</p>
<p>These are days by 10,000 Maniacs ( or we gotta get out of this place by the Animals)</p>
<p>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.
It’s true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you.</p>
<p>These are days you’ll remember.
When may is rushing over you with desire to be part of the miracles you see in every hour.
You’ll know it’s true that you are blessed and lucky.
It’s true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you.</p>
<p>These are days.</p>
<p>These are the days you might fill with laughter until you break.
These days you might feel a shaft of light make its way across your face.
And when you do you’ll know how it was meant to be.
See the signs and know their meaning.
It’s true, you’ll know how it was meant to be.
Hear the signs and know they’re speaking to you, to you.</p>
<p>Here’s a list of some songs that are perfect to play at a graduation ceremony:</p>
<p>[10</a> Great Songs for Graduation - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com](<a href=“http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/761795/10_great_songs_for_graduation.html?cat=4]10”>http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/761795/10_great_songs_for_graduation.html?cat=4)</p>