[ti:Age Of Treason] [ar:Donovan] [al:Troubadour - The Definitive Collection 1964 - 1976] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Age of Treason - Donovan [00:04.59]On a long and windy hilltop beneath a roof of tin [00:11.83]In a little wallpapered bedroom I done my growin [00:21.62]Twas there I dreamt my dreams there I hung my jeans [00:27.15]And wandered through my puberty quite early [00:38.28]My mother was a tight knot bound up with false guilt [00:45.69]Strapped up in her feeling a wall she had built [00:55.59]An independent girl in a dark and cruel world [01:00.80]She'd lost the way to say"OK now lay back" [01:12.17]We disagreed on most things I shouted peace and love [01:19.41]The family of mankind the symbol of the dove [01:29.30]She only saw the surface of things before her face [01:35.16]But I was young and argued on for hours [01:46.18]My father he liked poetry a scholar he might have made [01:53.19]Had he not been born a poor boy barefoot and underpaid [02:02.94]So the man worked with his hands up and down the land [02:08.60]His dreams forgot he thought that I must follow [02:19.73]With his Marxist worker's wisdom he'd read a thing or two [02:27.08]He once had been a Mason but he never followed through [02:36.90]Always kind and thoughtful smelling of machine oil [02:42.05]And he read me poetry of visionaries [02:53.12]I flunked my way to college a looser kind of school [03:00.49]Bop Re-Bopin ' play time arty feeling cool [03:09.90]A chance to live an artists diggin' the ravin' scene [03:15.45]Reading Kerouac and Ginsberg well juiced [03:25.97]I was not academic Art and English Lit [03:33.18]The history of mankind I liked that a bit [03:42.61]And What was I to do The choices they were few [03:48.48]I downright disgrace to the working classes [03:53.84]I downright disgrace to the working classes [03:59.25]I downright disgrace to the working classes [04:04.81]I downright disgrace to the working classes