I long for the days/music and mayhem/mama's a smilin' friend/in the scuzzy hue of the sunlight/Manhattan Avenue

So in order to get the $1000 schollarship to pay for my college tuition that my Dad got me from his work that he may be forced to quit from, I had to sched. an extra 2 credits, which of course I found out about exactly 1 day after last call for classes! Before my Ma could go straight to the Dean (can I make something like that up? :-) ) we found that I could still get my P.E. classes on later this sem., so there will be a new Bowling and Co-Ed Volleyball student in a few weeks. That was a few days ago. Today I worked with Mr. Bake at his house (I do lawnwork on Sat. for extra under the table dollars), he cut out early for a meeting/party at the school he teaches at, leaving me to clean up etc. So for like 2 hrs I picked up grapevines/cut things down from the fences, it was great. I imagined for the whole time that I was married to Nellie McKay and that I would be working in my yard and she would bring lemonade out for both of us and we would talk about great things and then I would go in and play piano and she would sing 'Manhattan Avenue'. Well I'll probably delete that part the next time I come back.