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