Age Of Treason Lyrics - Donovan

On a lone and windy hilltop beneath a roof of tin 

In a little wallpapered bedroom I done my growin' 

'Twas there I dreamt my dreams, I hung my jeans 

And wandered through my puberty as all do 

My mother was a tight nut bound up with false guilt 

Strapped up in her fearing wall she had built 

The independent girl in a dark and cruel world 

She'd lost the way to say, "OK, now lay back" 

We disagreed on most things, I shouted peace and love 

The family is mankind, the symbol of the dove 

She only saw the surface of things before her face 

But I was young and argued on for hours 

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My father he liked poetry, a scholar he might have made 

Had nothing, born a poor boy barefoot and underpaid 

So the man worked with his hands up and down the land 

His dreams forgot he thought that I must follow 

With his marks as worker's wisdom he'd read a thing or two 

He once had been a Mason but he never followed through 

Always kind and thoughtful, smelling of mushy oil 

And he read me poetry of visionaries 

I flunk my way to college, a looser kind of school 

But we bobbed and played time arty, feeling cool 

Just to live an artists diggin' the ravin' scene 

Reading Kerouac and Ginsberg well deuced 

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I was not academic, Art and English neat 

The history of mankind I liked that a bit 

And what was I to do? The choices they were few 

I done right disgrace to the working classes 

I done right disgrace to the working classes 

I done right disgrace to the working classes 

I done right disgrace to the working classes