Here's the original song, taken from a cassette, lovely hiss.
https://www.box.com/s/yuw8qcesk8ngqnm30lzi...........and here are the words.......
A Cynical Youth Copyright Eric Thacker 1989.
Oh boy, only just 10 years old,
and learning to smoke, the thought of it makes you cold.
He lived by a fairground where, played little girls and
who would have thought it’s been so long.
Fourteen, cold winter at TP School, his scene,
a paper kid breaking rules.
A working class boy ,whose joy, to play guitar and
who would have thought it’s been so long..
Seems like yesterday, years have flown by and bye.
If only that he knew all that he knows now,
innocence gone for all time.
To work, in April of sixty four, a cynical youth,
whose school days to be no more.
He there met his girl, a whirl of fond memories and
who would have thought it’s been so long.
Who would have thought it’s been so long