I didn't know that Henry the eighth was married more than once

Or Shelly was a poet

I didn't know Alexander the great had conquered most of Greece

Or people came from monkeys

I didn't know that the garden

Of eden was all just a beautiful myth

I never read great expectations

Summer on the Lake Euripides Electra

I never met the two nobel kinsmen

Or ever came across the Merry Wives of Windsor

I always feel like

I'm Alice in wonderland stranded in Vanity Fair

Once upon a time

Oh captian

My captain

I'm so many years behind

I'm still so many years behind

I did'nt know that she'd be so clever

I never dreamed of such imagination

I never read thoughts so expresive

What am I thinking

I'm missing the point

Meant to read what she's studdied in French

I'm baffeled

I'm perplexed

Oh captian

My captian

I really must get back to work

I wonder what she'll write me next

I'd never heard of Meg Jo Beth or Amy

I'd never been to Dover Beach

Or heard the phrase

A man's reach should exceed his grasp

I feel like the idiot or the toilers of the sea

Oh captian

My captian

All the world is verse to me

A lady with a lamp I see

I'd never heard the moonlight sonata

A Chopin Polonaise a Brandenburg Concerto

I did'nt know that Lily and Russel triumphed on the stage

Or Mone was a painter

And you may laugh at me

I thought George Elliot was without question a man

I'm opening my mind

Oh captain

My captian

I'm so many years behind

I'm still so many years behind

Now daddy I must sleep

But I will think of you

For daddy I know there is

Still much catching up to do