Skool Dinner Blues Releases Gigs Lyrics Comments

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Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 39 times, most recently at Nashville Rooms on June 02, 1979. He first performed it at St John's Pythagoras Room on November 24, 1977, 1 year and 6 months earlier.
Title Artist Label Type Year
A Can of Bees The Soft Boys Two Crabs Music Album 1979
A Tin of Crabs The Soft Boys Crabs Moon Records Bootleg 1987
Rout Of The Clones The Soft Boys Bootleg 1995
Venue Billed As City State Country Date
St John's Pythagoras Room Robyn Hitchcock Cambridge England UK 11/24/1977
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 10/06/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 10/14/1978
77 Club The Soft Boys Nuneaton England UK 10/17/1978
London College of Printing The Soft Boys London England UK 10/19/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 10/20/1978
Rock Garden The Soft Boys London England UK 10/27/1978
Downing College, Cambridge University The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 10/28/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 11/11/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 11/16/1978
Leicester University The Soft Boys Leicester England UK 11/21/1978
Russell Club "Factory" Night The Soft Boys Manchester England UK 11/24/1978
Lady Mitchell Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/27/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 12/08/1978
Rock Garden The Soft Boys London England UK 12/22/1978
Corn Exchange (Heads) The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 12/23/1978
North East London Polytechnic The Soft Boys London England UK 01/11/1979
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 01/12/1979
Mid-Herts College The Soft Boys Welwyn Garden City England UK 01/20/1979
Sidney Sussex College The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/26/1979
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 02/02/1979
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 03/03/1979
UCL (University College London) The Soft Boys London England UK 03/05/1979
Rock Garden The Soft Boys London England UK 03/10/1979
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 03/24/1979
Brillig Arts Centre The Soft Boys Bath England UK 04/21/1979
University of East Anglia The Soft Boys Norwich England UK 04/27/1979
Canterbury College of Art The Soft Boys Canterbury England UK 05/01/1979
Pop Club The Soft Boys York England UK 05/02/1979
The Penthouse The Soft Boys Scarborough England UK 05/04/1979
Newcastle Polytechnic The Soft Boys Newcastle upon Tyne England UK 05/06/1979
Huddersfield Polytechnic The Soft Boys Huddersfield England UK 05/08/1979
Reading University The Soft Boys Reading England UK 05/09/1979
Warwick University The Soft Boys Coventry England UK 05/12/1979
Woods The Soft Boys Plymouth England UK 05/16/1979
Routes The Soft Boys Exeter England UK 05/17/1979
Tiffany's The Soft Boys Edinburgh Scotland UK 05/22/1979
Norbreck Castle Hotel The Soft Boys Blackpool England UK 05/23/1979
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 06/02/1979

Comments

The unusual spelling of "Skool" was reportedly inspired by the "Molesworth" books by Ronald Searle and Geoffery Willans. Per his Soft Boys Scrapbook, Kimberley has said in 1978 he bore a resemblance to the character Peason. (p5, p11). See also "Hear My Brane."

Lyrics

I woke up this mornin'
School dinners all around my mind
I woke up this mornin'
School dinners all around my mind
Not a moment, now
I looked for you, baby
But school dinner's all that I could find

I woke up this mornin'
A tablecloth over my face
I woke up this mornin'
A tablecloth over my face
I can't be your table, honey
I just can't lay you no place
No, I can't

Hey now, baby
Got the school dinner blues
I got through my navel
To my walkin' shoes
You look so good
But you taste so bad
Like every piece of news
A man ever had

I'm in the laundry (I'm in the laundry)
I'm in the laundry (There was a good thing)
I'm in the laundry

Oh schucks, baby, what would I say?

You dress like a ham
But you talk just like a lump of coal
You walk like a ham
But you taste just like a piece of coal, yeah you do
I can't help but feel that the
Whole thing's got out of control