Sunbeam shone, mousy girl on the end pew
 You'd stay home, oh if only they let you
 Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie

Municipal pool, you're a junior life saver
 But you're friends are all serious ravers
 Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
 Reading Judy Blume
 But you came too soon

You're too tall, much too tall for a boyfriend
 They run and hide, from your buck tooth and split ends
 Don't be scared, like the books you've read
 You're the heroine
 You'll be doing fine

Wouldn't you like to get away?
 Bestowing the memory of good and evil
 On the ones you left behind
 The heartless swine

And you love like nobody around you
 How you love, and a halo surrounds you
 Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
 In the Autumn cool
 Say cheerio to school

Listen Dear, I've been watching you lately
 If I said all these things you would hate me
 Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
 At the church bazaar
 I nearly went too far

Wouldn't you like to get away?
 Kerouac's beckoning with open arms,
 And open fields of eucalyptus
 Westward bound

Wouldn't you like to get away?
 Give yourself up to the allure of
 Catcher In The Rye
 The future's swathed in Stars and Stripes