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LEAVING BOYHOOD BEHIND


White shirt 'n' school tie to blue-collar, dress-code is changing with age
From schooldays to pay-days, from homework to hard work 
School bells and game playing to work's whistle and wage earning
With new mates, dirty jokes and smoking, oh where has my boyhood gone?

Seven-thirty start time to five-thirty finish, playtime is shortening with age 
From footy-boots to work-boots, from school cap to flat-cap 
Five hour days and school clock to nine hour days and time-clock 
With clocking on, punch cards and overtime, oh where has my boyhood gone? 

Sitting with the lads and a big mug of tea, some things taste different with age 
From cream soda to warm beer, from tu'penny mix to filter-tips  
Learning piecework rates and new skills, paying union subs and betting slips 
Fag-packet backs, sledge-hammers and betting, oh where has my boyhood gone?

Working with Paddy in the oven's fiery heat, this is much too hot at any age
From cold iron bar to white hot, from straight angle-bar to boiler-flange 
From the furnace to the big rolls and bend it, working fast before 
Lift it out, knock it flat and weld it, oh where has my boyhood gone

In the Boiler-shop to learn fabrication, things mustn't drop apart with age
From marking out to Oxy-gas cutting from riveting to electric arc welding
Not much in the way of protection with no heath 'n' safety laws here
With air-hammers, no ear-plugs or goggles, oh where has my hearing gone?

Moving big metal sheets down the plate-shop, I must be getting stronger with age
From plate stack to marking out table from load stable to not very safe
Two tons of metal on the pulley, the chain slips and it's down with a bang
Metal crashing, men jumping and cursing, oh where has my life nearly gone
  
Day-release Thursday at college, lessons still needed with age
From going to Derby and back again, from going by bus to car driving
The Lacarno dance-hall at lunch-time, try chatting up girls for some fun
A quick jive, some posing and a coffee, oh where has my boyhood gone

Dating girls at the week-end and hoping, urges get stronger with age
From meeting up early to dancing, from front seat to back seat for fun
Babysitting her niece on a Tuesdays this gives us some time on our own
Snogging, heavy petting and much further...  boyhood  gone
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