Fairport Convention Part ii Lyrics:
I was sixteen now and full of life, life was full
of things to see Grown up in my little town and
only seen Torquay So it's off I went to Newton
Abbot to get myself the deeds to sign My father
took them and tore them up, saying "That's no life
for a boy of mine" "John, my son, don't join the
Navy, there's no good in it, I know Plant your
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seeds on solid ground and watch your harvest grow
John, my son, don't join the Navy, that's clay
that's underneath your skin John, my son, don't
join the Navy, don't go leaving your kith and kin"
A boy must breathe and . . . or call himself a
failure So I would see some foreign shores and I
would be a sailor So I went off to my mother for a
week or more and wiled and wheeled and won my way
Father put the pen to paper in the fields at lunch
the very next day
Lyrics: Part ii, Fairport Convention [end]