I was quite happy to get a couple of whacks, as that was me fired from the choir. I was never really enthusiastic singing the Minstrel Boy to The Wars Has Gone, instead of reading music and playing instruments which I did in my previous school, which was supposed to be a beyond-hope secondary modern school.
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