An Education.

I have the dulcet tones of banjo strings reverberating through my head.

Fortunately, I happen to own a banjo.

This bodes ill.

(Twelve-bar blues, A)

Sitting in that great big hall

Worrying my poor head off

Fretting over facts, quotes and citations

What the Hell am I doing here?

I've not a lot of time for this

For papers, grades and questions, miss

I haven't got the patience for annotations

What the Hell am I doing here?

Oh, that's right

Getting an education

They told me, boy, you've got to work

If you want to make it big

Learn to wall your head in concentration

What the Hell are you talking about?

Make no mistake about it, son

You'll end up one of those hopeless bums

If you don't learn to read the complications

What the Hell are you talking about?

We're talking about

Getting an education

So I took the train down to the west

I thought, those folks, now, they know best

I felt a sense of great anticipation

I wonder what it's all really about

I walked a mile in rain and sleet

To that great big university

My spirits underwent an elevation

I wonder what it's all really about

I thought

I'm gonna get an education

Small wonder now I soon found out

What this place was all about

This place of men and their dissertations

I found out what it was really all about

They put me in a great big hall

Where I worried my poor head off

Two hours of academic subjugation

I found out what it was really all about

And now

I'm getting an education

But on the way I met a man

A resident of this learning land

Who offered me some spirits and libations

I still don't know what that was all about

He told me 'bout all the good fun

About drinking past the setting sun

It's not so bad this place of ostentation

He told me what it was all about

This place

This place of education

During the tests and lectures here

It seems to me, despite my fears

I'd made a downright huge miscalculation

I know what it's all really about

The learning's half the fun, you know

No matter to what place you go

I set myself in my determination

Now that I know, what it's really all about

This learning infestation

Of mild intoxication

This place of often post-noon hibernation

This place of personalisation

Of dreams and revelations

Of formation, love, and frequent fornication

This place

This place of education