and it was ..1972. 6th form Turramurra High School ..Chris Winter's Room to Move at 10pm on a Monday night and Ross McDermot and Geoffrey Howard and I were most intrigued by it all.
School Days
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 would roam upon the lake
In the spring I had great hunger
I was Keats, I was Blake
My pimple pencil pains I would bring
To frogs who sat entranced
My drift dream ditties I would
They would astride a dance
In Delaware when I was younger
They thought St. 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
Your fallacies one day will pay
See my lightning hear my thunder
I am truth I know the way
In Delaware when I was younger
Loudon Wainwright III
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