Schooldays

F C F In Delaware when I was younger C F I would live the life obscene In the spring I had great hunger C Am I was Brando, I was Dean Blaspheming, booted, blue-jeaned baby boy Oh, how I made them turn their heads C The townie brownie girls they jumped for joy C7 F C F Begged me, bless them in their beds___ In Delaware when I was younger C F I would row upon the lake In the spring I had great hunger C Am I was Keats, I was Blake My pimpled pencil pains I’d bring To frogs who sat entranced C My drift-dreamed ditties I would sing C7 F C F The water strider danced In Delaware when I was younger C F They thought St. Andrew had sufficed But in the spring I had great hunger C Am I was Buddha, I was Christ You wicked wise-men, where’s your wonder? You Pharisees, someday will pay C See my lightning, hear my thunder C7 F C F I am truth, I know the way____ In Delaware when I was younger