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Old School Ties
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"Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison." (Evelyn Waugh)
prog acoustic folk british quirky folk rock english mellotron seventies strawbs
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Folk-Rock from five corners of England
The Strawberry Fools are David Claridge - vocals/guitars/ukuelele/dulcimer/percussion Les Cotton - vocals/bass/guitars Dick Greener- vocals/guitars/mandolin/bouzouki/percussion Peter Rand - keyboards Ralph Tonge - vocals/guitars/banjo
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Genre
Rock • Progressive Rock
Charts
Peak #21
Peak in subgenre #3
Author
Dave Claridge/Peter Rand
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Dave Claridge/Peter Rand
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November 14, 2010
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MP3 8.7 MB • 192 kbps • 6:21
Story behind the song
53% of the current (2011) Cabinet went to private schools, compared with 7% of the country as a whole.... no wonder we're in such a mess.
Lyrics
Let's hear it for the old school ties Who taught you inside to despise Who taught you to affect surprise with feelings never compromised   Let's hear it for the dreaming spires who trawl for souls in sleeping shires give lonely children new desires all wrapped up with razor wire       And yet I'm told     by those who should know better     Those were the best days of my life     And yet I was sold     a six year old bed-wetter     Those were the best days of my life   Let's hear it for the first fifteen Lorded by the masters, the prefects and queens play up play up and play the game and screw all those who aren't the same     And yet I'm told     by those who should know better     Those were the best days of my life     And yet I was sold     a six year old bed-wetter     Those were the best days of my life   Let's hear it for the matron and nurse with who you imagined, and who you rehearsed offering extras if you carried a purse freshers leaving with 'Matron's curse' let's hear it for the coxless fours who in 1914 went to different shores forever inscribed on the headmasters door they never quite knew, what they were fighting for   Let's hear it for the government who tell it straight yet come out bent from Eton Mess and force-fed lies I gave my vote to old school ties
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Le Jaz
Nov 24, 2010
A return to the '60's! I mean that in the best sense. Really nice tune!