It's a Long Hitch Hike Home

IT’S A LONG HITCH HIKE HOME

©Trev Teasdel Cleobury Mortimer1967  / Coventry May 1969

Well now, at last, the term has ended,

And we’re ready to return.

I say goodbye to all my friends

For I have many things to learn,

And ambitions to fulfil.

And I whisper to my friend

Whose mind is still, on the windowsill.

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It’s a long hitchhike home

So I give my hair a comb

Put my rucksack on my back

And proceed down the track.

I’m off to seek my fortune

But not in pence and pounds.

I’m off to seek my fortune

But not in jewels and crowns.

I’m off to seek the truth

I’ve been looking for, for years.

I’m off to seek a sun,

In a crowded mass of tears.

Chorus

I’ve travelled through the glens

And made many friends

But as I try to wend my way

Up the embankment’s slimy clay,

I sometimes slip and fall,

Like a silver waterfall

But eventually I’ll climb

And overcome the slime.

Chorus

I’ve travelled many miles,

Through many empty valleys.

And I’ve had my fair share

Of the darkness of the alleys.

I’ve come across folk,

Searching for their yoke.

They sound their motto wide

“Seek and thou shalt find”

Chorus

Everybody’s searching -

For what? – They do not know.

Gazing from their windows,

They bow their heads low.

People trying to reach

With hands that can not feel.

People trying to speak

To images unreal….

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Began this lyric June 196, on the coach, waiting to leave the City of Coventry Boarding School, at Cleobury Mortimer and finished in 1969. Probably influenced by Simon and Garfunkel at that stage.
The first reflects leaving school, and the imagery, with Glens and embankments, was influenced by the school's Cross-Country run. I was in the school team, so I did a lot of running.