The Girl Learned Her Lessons Well
Jerry G. Hludzik / Rick Manwiller (Eljerabby Music / ASCAP)

(V1)
She used to call me the teacher
I’d smile and hold her on my knee
It seemed so easy to reach her
She had so much faith in me
I taught her what she’d been doin’ wrong
And why no man would ever stay
To bide her time till her prince came along
Not just the first one who looked her way

(C1)
I taught her never to settle for second best
Who wasn’t right and just how to tell
She earned her highest mark on the day that she left
The girl learned her lessons well

(V2)
I taught her all about the wrong kind of guys
Ones who try to tell her what to do
But I’m taking just taking off my own disguise
I taught her more than I knew
’Cause by and by I could tell by her eyes
That now she’d easily see
The things I warned her of men in the world
Were things she started to see in me

(C2)
I taught her never to settle for second best
Who wasn’t right and just how to tell
She earned her highest mark on the day that she left
The girl learned her lessons well

(Bridge)
Gotta give her credit for thinking on her own
Gotta give her freedom to choose
Had to put my heart away and let her go
Had to give her chances to win or lose

(C3)
I taught her never to settle for second best
Who wasn’t right and just how to tell
She earned her highest mark on the day that she left
The girl learned her lessons well

(Tag Line)
The girl learned her lessons well…