Al Stewart - Beleeka Doodle Day lyrics

I could have gone to Cambridge with Lionel I think I tried to raise a pound Just to see the University And find the scenes she hung around Is your mind a menagerie Perhaps, I mean it's hard to say A pterodactyl built its nest on me I'm feeling strange but quite OK On this beleeka doodle day Archimedes and his orchestra Loudly disapprove of life Got mad when I called them unmusical Tried to land me with a wife Out in San Francisco's wonderland The purple poet kneels to pray But I just hang around your city and I don't have anything to say On this beleeka doodle day I had a week once in Italy With Mike and Robin and some songs I had a girl once in Sweden but I haven't seen her for too long I drift down to the Cousins and The usual people were all there I saw a girl in the soft red light I smiled but she looked away On my beleeka doodle day I wrote a song just before the dawn And then I lost it now its gone I spent all day playing Monopoly It seemed to feel like getting on Sometimes I wonder how it feels to be Paul McCartney or the Queen I wonder how they'd feel if they were me I think its gonna start to rain On this beleeka doodle day Oh Jack the Ripper and Hippocrates They're out to get me in the end I think they'll find me by the ruined trees Without a candle or a friend Then they'll bring me to the wizard's cave Softly mould me into clay And lock me in with no telephone And laugh and throw the keys away On my beleeka doodle day So to Avril and I would like to give My thanks for lending me your room I stayed one night, ah but I had to go I think I'll maybe come back soon Of all the girls that I have ever known There wasn't one who didn't play They came and went just like the newspapers And left me here to find my way Through my beleeka doodle day