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My other life | Lynne Truss reveals her fantasy career

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Nov 08, 2009

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Lynne Truss admits that as a girl she wanted to be the Joni Mitchell of Surrey

As a 15-year-old, I was entirely devoted to my guitar and I wrote songs the whole time, so secretly I wanted to be a singer-songwriter – like Joni Mitchell, only without the Californian lifestyle and with no experience of big yellow taxis. I remember one plaintive song I wrote (using four chords) about a boy in John Lennon specs I met once crossing Petersham Meadows. He was walking to Weybridge, which for some reason impressed me very much. I can still remember some of the words: "'Will I see you again?' is what you said./ And I replied, 'Yes, I expect so.'/ And now I'll never see you again./ No, I'll never see you again."

I now find the lyric very funny, especially the bathetic "Yes, I expect so". Being highly self-conscious and not very good at the guitar, I don't think I was ever destined for Carnegie Hall, but I do often wonder how I let go of music-making, when it once motivated me so much. As a child, I studied Time and Tune sheet music from school and tried to play it on inade

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