Hi there, I’m an English Lit. teacher and am using Lord Anthony
in my 9th grade class and would love to hear your thoughts on
the song, its meaning and the phrases therein that we may not be
(as Americans) all too familiar with (i.e. “tuff” & the
significance of the Lord Anthony jacket, if any, for the song).
I love your music and have always wanted to see it live- hope to
one day. Thanks for writing great lyrics! David Jester English
Faculty Woods Charter School Chapel Hill, NC USA As we were
rehearsing this song today, your question is in my mind! It’s a
pretty straight forward song, written by an ‘ordinary’ pupil,
who’s looking on at someone whom he secretly thinks is
marginally fantastic, but is too conventional to ever befriend.
Bunking off though you’re a toff i think you mean ‘toff’, not
‘tuff’. bunking off is playing truant from school, and this is
unusual in that tony is a ‘toff’, a rich person, middle class,
as opposed to the majority of his classmates, who are from blue
collar families, and perhaps