The only song I'd written about teaching in those misguided days when I taught in a secondary school. The pains used to leave at Easter and not do their exams.
lyrics
Easter Leaver.
Easter leaver, Easter leaver, Easter leaver
Always late, lesson hater, teacher baiter, image breaker,
Playground fear, racketeer, Boadicea, boa constrictor,
Cannot spell, saved by the bell, run like hell, away from the smell.
Mummy says "I blame the school, they should have kept her in
line"
Letters to the local rag "there's not enough discipline",
Daddy says "I just don't understand how my little girl could turn
out so,
The day she turned up her nose at her bromide and stamped her
little feet and said 'no'"
Easter leaver, Easter leaver...
Don't ask shoot, put in the boot, Front recruit, nazi salute
Leather sporter, rough supporter, devil's daughter, fire water,
Blood blister, ugly sister, no hoper, lunch time smoker.
Headmaster says it's a clear case of "give a dog a bad name",
Ms Jones says "it's beyond a joke, she's driving us insane"
High school shrink thinks he's getting through, "she's not as bad
as people say, it's just the crowd she hangs around leading her
astray, Easter Leaver, Easter Leaver...
Upbraided, ungraded, saddle strider, pillion rider,
cool cucumber, queue jumper, under cover, spunk lover,
Fast liver, ulcer giver, search for traces of saving graces..
Mummy says "I blame the school, they should have kept her in
line"
Letters to the local rag "there's not enough discipline",
Daddy says "I just don't understand how my little girl could turn
out so,
The day she turned up her nose at her muesli and stamped her
little feet and said 'no'" Easter leaver, Easter leaver...
Instrumental break...
Headmaster says it's a clear case of "give a dog a bad name",
I write both serious and comedy songs. 6 solo CDs to date and collaborations with Steve Cartwright -"Legends of
Leicester/Leicestershire". "All at Sea" shantyish album. Folk based for the most part - when people ask where the ideas come from I can say with honesty -"not drugs!!".. Currently working on a new album "Aspects of Lurve" hopefully out later in 2024....more