Luke's desk Songtext
von Colin Buchanan

Very few have climbed great mountains
Very few have reached the moon
Discoveries in space, on land and sea ...
But fewer still have plucked the courage
To face the dangerous unknown
Beneath the desk of Luke, in Year 3


Came the day when Luke declared
"I cannot find my book you see
I′ve searched my desk of that you can be certain"
So says the teacher, "I will check"
And Luke says to himself, "Oh heck!
This time you know he'll really chuck a burton!"
(The teacher found) Six pairs of scissors and half a pack of fizzers
Eighty nine rubber bands, a little pot of glue,
A pick a path story book about a secret mystery chook,
Half a devon sanga from 1982
He found a bottle full of after-shave (a present that his mother gave),
A soccer ball, a footy ball, a fibreglass canoe,
A video, a stereo, a bottle full of Juicy-O,
Half a pound of sausages to make an Irish stew

And all - of - this - is true (Phew!)

Now all this came to some surprise,
The class could not believe their eyes
The teacher stood with eyes and mouth wide open
Then at last the teacher cried, "I′ll have another look inside"
And soon again in Luke's desk he was groppin'
(And he found) a pack of mouldy bubble gum, half a tin of doggy chum,
Seven dozen rulers and some ham and chicken spread,
A book about astronauts and stuff you put on plantar warts
An angry brontosaurus and a soggy water-bed,
A mandolin, a violin, a little tin to put them in,
Seven tubs of margarine, eleven loaves of bread
A kangaroo, a cockatoo, a jackaroo from Channel 2

A band-aid from the time he cut his finger and it bled
"What a mess" the teacher said.


When the book could not be found the teacher looked upon the mound
Of all the junk that he had just uncovered,
He said to Luke, "Go take a look upon my desk, that little book
May be there and be finally discovered."
(So Luke walked over to the teacher′s desk and he found)
Twenty pencil packets and some winter wooly jackets,
Eighty seven plastic bags, a photo of his chook,
A box of apples, big and green, a drawing of a thing he′d seen,
The other teacher's garbage bin he′d accidently took!
A tennis racquet, hockey stick, a rake, a shovel and a pick
A pawn, a knight, a king, a queen, a bishop and a rook,
Dirty clothes, a picture frame, some undies with his mother's name
And underneath it all Luke got his hands upon his book!
Next time that′s where he'll look. (It′s crook!)