Boarding School Blues (Part 2)
©Trev Teasdel Coventry April 1971
Chorus
One more day in this old place
There’s one more day and we’re going home.
Going home after far too long
We’re going home – it’s been so long.
In the prep room there is chaos,
Even the Masters celebrate.
Fun fights in the dormitories,
Nobody can wait.
It’s all midnight packing and bed-ransacking
Pillow fights and bright torchlights.
Everybody’s getting ready,
Everybody knows
We’re going home.
At last the time has come,
No one will sleep tonight.
Lights out – half past ten
No one gives a damn!
Midnight raids on the staff room,
Biscuits topped with jam.
It’s all been school meals and lessons,
But tomorrow – we’re going home,
Tossing our caps in the Severn,
Seagulls come to greet them
It’s all ‘when I get home, I’m gonna do this, do that‘
Nothing seems to matter
Look out Coventry city – the boys are back in town
The girls are looking pretty, we’ll soon be hanging round.
It’s been facts n figures and classroom triggers
but now we’re coming home.