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Pretty Good

7/4/2018

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Pretty Good
 
There once was a pretty good student,
     Who sat in a pretty good class
And was taught by a pretty good teacher,
     Who always let pretty good pass.
 
He wasn’t terrific at reading;
     He wasn’t a whiz bang at math;
But for him education was leading
     Straight down a pretty good path.
 
He didn’t find school too exciting,
     But he wanted to do pretty well
And he did have some trouble with writing,
     And nobody had taught him to spell.
 
When doing arithmetic problems,
     Pretty good was regarded as fine;
Five and five needn’t add up to ten,
     A pretty good answer was nine.
 
The pretty good student was happy
     With the standards that were in effect,
And nobody thought it was sappy
     If his answers were not quite correct.
 
The pretty good class that he sat in
     Was part of a pretty good school,
And the student was not an exception;
     On the contrary, he was the rule.
 
The pretty good school that he went to
     Was right there in a pretty good town
And nobody there ever noticed
     He could not tell a verb from a noun.
 
The pretty good student, in fact, was
     A part of a pretty good mob,
And the first time he knew what he lacked was
     When he looked for a pretty good job.
 
It was then, when he sought a position,
     He discovered that life can be tough,
And he soon had a sneaking suspicion
     Pretty good might not be good enough.
 
The pretty good town in our story
     Was part of a pretty good state,
Which had pretty good aspirations
     And prayed for a pretty good fate.
 
There was once a pretty good nation,
     Pretty proud of the greatness it had,
But which learned much too  late,
     If you want to be great -
 
Pretty good is, in fact, pretty bad.
 
by Charles Osgood
 
Charles Osgood Wood III, also known simply as Charles Osgood, was born on 8 January 1933 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He is a television and radio commentator and a writer. He is known for “The Osgood File” show, which first broadcast on the CBS Radio Network in 1971, and as the host of the “CBS News Sunday Morning” show (1994 - 2016).
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