There's lots of things I learned,
When I was back in kindergarten,
I learned most of what I needed to know
About how to live, what to do, and how to be,
I picked the wisdom from the top of the learning tree,
From how to love a friend, to how to match my socks,
I got it all right there in the sandbox, oh,
Kindergarten taught me what I needed to know.

I learned how to play fair, and share,
And put things back where I found them,
Talk nice, think twice,
And say you're sorry to kids if you hurt them,
Don't tease, say please,
If something's not yours, then you shouldn't take it,
Eat right, don't fight,
And clean up the mess if you make it, yeah!
I said, clean up the mess if you make it, yeah!

I remember all the things that I learned,
When I was back in kindergarten,
And I've got a lot of things
That I've picked up along the way,
But everything I know, and everything I gain,
I just add to what I learned about Dick and Jane,
Because the roots go down, and then we all grow up,
Juse like the little seed in the plastic cup,
Oh, kindergarten taught me, what I needed to know.

I learned how to play fair, and share,
And put things back where I found them,
Talk nice, think twice,
And say you're sorry to kids if you hurt them,
Don't tease, say please,
If something's not yours, then you shouldn't take it,
Eat right, don't fight,
And clean up the mess if you make it, yeah!
I said, clean up the mess if you make it, yeah!

Think of what a different world it would be,
If we could all have cookies and milk at three,
Every afternoon, we'd take a nap after we eat.
Nobody would fight, we'd have peaceful days,
'Cause when we looked at a problem, we'd look both ways,
And we'd stick together, when we had to cross the street

If I could take all the leaders in the world,
And put them back in kindergarten,
Maybe they'd remember what they learned
About how to live, what to do, and how to be,
Wisdom from the top of the learning tree,
They'd see that love makes friends,
They'd learn to not throw rocks....,
Just like they learned it back in the sandbox, oh,
Kindergarten taught me what I needed to know,

The whole world could play fair, and share,
And put things back where we found them,
Talk nice, think twice,
Say we're sorry to kids if we hurt them,
Don't tease, say please,
If something's not ours, then we shouldn't take it,
Eat right, don't fight,
And clean up the mess if we make it, yeah!
I said, clean up the mess if we make it, yeah!