Talking to myself and feeling old Sometimes I'd like to quit, nothing ever seems to fit Hanging around, nothing to do but frown Rainy days and Mondays always get me down
What I've got they used to call the blues Nothing is really wrong, feeling like I don't belong Walking around, some kind of lonely clown Rainy days and Mondays always get me down... ...
Released in the summer of 1979 it spent four weeks at number one in the uk charts. Bob Geldof wrote the song after hearing about a school shooting. "According to Geldof, he wrote the song after reading a telex report at Georgia State University's campus radio station, WRAS, on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime; her explanation for her actions was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day"
bodleing2: The Boomtown Rats....I don't like Mondays.
Released in the summer of 1979 it spent four weeks at number one in the uk charts. Bob Geldof wrote the song after hearing about a school shooting. "According to Geldof, he wrote the song after reading a telex report at Georgia State University's campus radio station, WRAS, on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime; her explanation for her actions was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day"
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