Rock-a-Bye Baby: a song about falling asleep in lectures

jaymenon

https://on.soundcloud.com/8k6u1DSaxQJW8hQn9

I used to fall asleep in lectures

When they’d talk in that monotone

Topics of academic nature

Five seconds flat, and I'd be gone

I used to feel so guilty

I used to feel so bad

For snoozing while some poor joker 

Lectured the class

Singing Rock-a-bye baby

Rock-a-bye baby

I’d be snoring right there

louder than the man on the stage

Went to the Royal College website

To try to listen in again

When I woke up six hours later

Strange voices ringing in my head

I didn’t retain anything

I didn’t understand

When the man start talking

My cradle start rocking again

Singing Rock-a-bye baby

Rock-a-bye baby

So I played it that night and

I was out like a light again…

Now you don't need no prescription

It ain’t like drugs or like drink

There ain’t no risk of addiction

You won't remember a thing

Search high and low on college campus

Your local bookshop, go online

Find talks that make your eyes glaze  over

Most boring lectures you can find

Set them to rock you gently

And float up to the stars

But no - not when you’re driving in your car!!!

Singing Rock-a-bye baby

Rock-a-bye baby

Till we meet again Rest in peace my friend

Down will come baby cradle and all

theatreanchor

You have a nice voice, man. 

jaymenon

Thank you sir

Funkfingers

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jaymenon

That is very insightful and you’re absolutely right. Unfortunately, I’m not an experienced organ player and it would cost me a fortune to hire one - not to mention a proper brass section

But I shall definitely bear that in mind the next time I record something, thank you @funkfingers

Funkfingers

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ICBM

I like that. It’s got a nice 80s pop rock sound to it, the kind of thing that most of us think we’re too cool to actually like, but I never have… to me it’s all good and I don’t care .

It does remind me of lectures at Edinburgh Uni in the mid 80s too .