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Thread #35525   Message #524390
Posted By: Timbobbin
09-Aug-01 - 01:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: School Days (Loudon Wainwright III)
Subject: Lyr Add: SCHOOL DAYS (Loudon Wainwright)
From memory it goes something like this.

School Days

In Delaware when I was younger
I would row upon the lake
In the Spring I had great hunger
I was Keats I was Blake
My pimpled pencilled pains I'd bring
To frogs who sat entranced

My drift dream ditties I would sing
The water striders danced

In Delaware when I was younger
I would live a life obscene
In the Spring I had great hunger
I was Brando I was Dean
Blaspheming booted blue jeaned baby boy
Oh how I made them turn their heads
The townie brownie girls they jumped for joy
And begged me bless them in their beds

In Delaware when I was younger
I thought Saint Andrew (?) had sufficed
But in the Spring I had great hunger
I was buddha, I was Christ
You wicked wise men where's your wonder
You pharisees one day will pay
See my lightning hear my thunder
I am truth I know the way

In Delaware when I was Younger

That is as far as I can remember, I will dig out the album later to check