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Hey! Molla! Leave teachers alone
Apologies to Pink Floyd

By Peyvand Khorsandi
January 30, 2001
The Iranian

This is a song in solidarity with the 10,000 teachers who demonstrated in Iran last week. It is written to the tune of "We don't need no education". Apologies to Pink Floyd.

1. We don't need no turban nation

"Sara aab daad" with hejab

Teachers out to teach a lesson

Tell the mollas their hour has come

 

We don't need incarceration

Dara cell-bound in Evin's slum

It is time to wipe the blackboard

Khatami -- your name is smudged

 

[chorus]

Hey! Molla! Leave teachers alone.

Hey! Molla! Leave teachers alone.

All in all you're just another beardie from Qom

All in all you're just another beardie from Qom

 

2. Ayatollahs in the classroom

Gazing out of picture frames

Kids grow up freaked-out in numbers

Pretty -- Khomeini and Khamenei ain't

 

We don't need no suffocation

Holy books shoved down our gobs

Teachers march to make a living

In the streets, they're armed with chalk

Writing slogans on the asphalt

Smacked by batons as they walk

 

[Chorus]

Hey! Molla! Leave teachers alone.

Hey! Molla! Leave teachers alone.

All in all you're just another beardie from Qom

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