Lyrics: Kate & Anna McGarrigle. The McGarrigle Hour. Schooldays.
In Delaware when I was younger
I would live the 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
Begged me bless them in their beds
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 pencil pains I'd bring
To frogs who sat entranced
My drift-dreamed ditties I would sing
The water strider danced
In Delaware when I was younger
I thought St. Andrew had sufficed
In the spring I had great hunger
I was Buddha, I was Christ
You wicked wisemen where's your wonder
You pharisees someday will pay
See my lightning hear my thunder
I am truth I know the way
In Delaware when I was younger
I would live the 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
Begged me bless them in their beds
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 pencil pains I'd bring
To frogs who sat entranced
My drift-dreamed ditties I would sing
The water strider danced
In Delaware when I was younger
I thought St. Andrew had sufficed
In the spring I had great hunger
I was Buddha, I was Christ
You wicked wisemen where's your wonder
You pharisees someday will pay
See my lightning hear my thunder
I am truth I know the way
In Delaware when I was younger
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
The McGarrigle Hour
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
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