donovan ♦ age of treason

Описание: Not an edit. A song from the 1974 album "7-tease". The album charted nr.67 in Australia's Kent Music Report and nr.135 in USA's Billboard 200. The album didn't chart in the UKO, the united kingdom of obesity... is that what you get when your national traditional food is blood sausage, disguised as "black pudding"?...

AGE OF TREASON
(Donovan Leitch)
(these are the corrected lyrics, even Google's own result comes with faultive lyrics)

on a long and windy hilltop, beneath a roof of tin
in a little wallpapered bedroom I done my growin'

'twas there I dreamt my dreams, there I hung my jeans
and wandered through my puberty as all do

my mother was a tight nut, bound up with false guilt
strapped up in her fearing wall she had built

an independent girl in a dark and cruel world
she'd lost the way to say "ok now, lay back"

we disagreed on most things, I shouted peace and love
the family of mankind, the symbol of the dove

she only saw the surface of things before her face
but I was young and argued on for hours

my father he liked poetry, a scholar he might have made
had nothing, born a poor boy barefoot and underpaid

so the man worked with his hands, up and down the land
his dreams forgot he thought that I must follow

with his marks as worker's wisdom, he'd read a thing or two
he once had been a mason but he never followed through

always kind and thoughtful, smelling of machine oil
and he read me poetry of visionaries

I flunk my way to college, a looser kind of school
bob a wee bobbed and played time, arty, feeling cool

a chance to live an artists, diggin' the ravin' scene
reading Kerouac and Ginsberg well deuced

I was not academic, art and English nit
the history of mankind I liked that a bit

and what was I to do? the choices they were few
a down right disgrace to the working classes
'down right disgrace to the working classes
a down right disgrace to the working classes
a down right disgrace to the working classes

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