Skool Dinner Blues Releases Gigs Lyrics Comments

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Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 38 times, most recently at Nashville Rooms on June 02, 1979. He first performed it at Hope & Anchor on October 06, 1978, 7 months earlier.

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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."

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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