Dear Mr. Ratburn

"Dear Mr. Ratburn" is a song that is sung by the students in Mr. Ratburn's third grade class at the end of the school year. Right after the song, he revealed that he will be teaching the next 4th grade class, and M.C. will be teaching the next 3rd grade class in Mr. Ratburn's classroom.

Lyrics
(clarinet intro)

Whole class: Dear Mr. Ratburn, we made this song for you,

You showed us, with hard work, there’s nothing we can’t do.

From knowing long division,

To who won Waterloo.

Dear Mr. Ratburn, we owe it all to you.

Buster’s solo: Dear Mr. Ratburn, my story’s plain to see.

My mind was filled with junk, half-truths, and fallacies.

But after your instruction, I think more critically.

Now when I meet an alien, I’ll speak more intelligently.

Whole class: Dear Mr. Ratburn, we made this song for you,

Everything you taught us will stick to us like glue.

And from your fine example, we’ll know just what to do.

Dear Mr. Ratburn,

We owe it all to you!