Watch Me Go - Richard Thompson

One day the monkey jumps aboard, one day the black dog gets you

One Day the demons write your name in blood upon a ledger

But see the sun is shining as I step down on the pike

So pretty in my uniform of anti-look-alike

And goodbye halls of academe, I never could respect you

And loved ones, I’ll say fare you well, I surely will neglect you.

Watch Me Go Into the wide blue yonder

Watch Me Go Like a human cannonball

Watch Me Go With a mighty peal of thunder

And I’ll keep shouting till they lay me low

If it wasn’t for Dalwhinnie and all his reckless crew

I never would have learned to shake my fist and hullabaloo

If it wasn’t for the company I’d be talking to myself

Inside a padded 8 by 12, all on the National Health

And friends and kind relations, I’ll be writing very soon

The next time that you see me I’ll be halfway to the moon

Thank you dear Professor, for refocusing our eyes

And thank you Captain Sensible, so eloquent and wise

And Fotherington-Thomas, now you’re singing with the choir

But you gave us beef when we had none, of wood and string and wire

And for those who choose the twisty road, prefer it to the straight

Let joy beat out old misery, as love will conquer hate