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My story about going to my 50th high school reunion.

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I went back to Fitchburg Mass. I Had lunch with some old friends
We were the class of ‘68. It’s fifty years since then.
We arrived as strangers, 12 guys with thinning hair.
We could have used some name tags when we first got there.

We went to an all-boys school, taught by brothers, not by monks.
We held dances in the gym, by and large, they stunk.
We laughed about our teachers and Catcher in the Rye.
How every day we had to wear a jacket and a tie.

The river that ran through my town changed colors every day.
Sometimes it was red or green, sometimes purple, sometimes grey.
The paper mills and the factories have all but moved away.
The river kept on flowin’ and we all moved away

Bill was a park ranger. He wore a wide-brimmed hat.
Our quarterback was a beekeeper. Try to picture that.
Norman moved to Montreal. He was a social worker.
Frank became a CPA. Bobby became a lawyer.

Well, some were good at science. Some wrote computer code.
Some of us are all high-tech. Some still have flip phones

A few of us brought our wives. A few of us are gay
A few of us still go to church. But most have dropped away.
Some guys couldn’t make it there. But Jeff called from Idaho.
And we made plans to say goodbye to Nick at his nursing home.

The river that runs through my town is all cleaned up today.
The paper mills have all closed down. And the fish have come to stay.
I looked at that old yearbook. I was on the debating team.
And for an hour or so I was seventeen.

I went back to Fitchburg Mass. I had lunch with some old friends...

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from Don't Be Discouraged, released May 6, 2022
© Peter Lehndorff /BMI

Peter Lehndorff: vocals, acoustic guitar
Chris Haynes: accordion
Jim Henry: acoustic guitar, mandolin
Paul Kochanski: upright bass

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Peter Lehndorff Hampden, Massachusetts

Partial proceeds from my bandcamp site will be donated to The Huntington's Disease Program at UConn. To date I have donated over $1000. Huntington's Disease is the genetic brain disease that took the life of Woody Guthrie.

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