Watch da Road

As a PSHE teacher, I have to teach riveting and important topics like road safety. I'm doing this with my Year 8s and using a teaching pack called 'Street Safe'. It provides all sorts of teaching suggestions, including a rap song to force people to slow down. It gives an example 'to get the creative juices flowing'. I won't type the whole thing - the best bits are as follows:

"I know a guy called Jay and he thinks he's BIG
He liked to drink Glen's down "swig by swig"
Got hit by a Mercedes nearly split his wig
Left the logo on his face, messed his looks up kid

(Shakespeare would be proud with those rhyming couplets, no??)

Listening to loud music crossing the roads is DUMB
As well as being drunk out ya mind now son
So use ya brain, or ya life could be done
Don't be like Jay, stop 'N' look don't Run

Blazin, not payin attention
Run a old man over, who was cashing his pension,
Threw him throught the air with the power
Cos he was driving his Corsa, hundred miles per hour

Cruisin wid ma mate T all around town
He was actin too crazy; I said "turn the sounds down"
But he didn't hear, too late the car spun around,
Crahed into a pick-up truck, it made a crunch sound


- Mercury Music Prize next year - watch this space - thank god Lennon is dead - he'd be turning in his grave if he was alive...

You've gotta laugh - homeboy.