Australian singles chart:
Smokin’ in the Boys Room entered the Kent charts on 21 January 1974 and peaked at #9. It was #60 on the Top 11 of 1974.
Songwriters:
Cub Koda, Michael Lutz
Producers:
Doug Morris, Brilliant Sun
Record label of Australian release:
Philips
Songfacts:
Smokin’ in the Boys Room was written by Brownsville Station lead singer/guitarist Michael “Cub” Koda about a group of schoolboys who sneak out of class to smoke tobacco in the boys’ bathroom, only to be found by the principal who reminds them “No smoking allowed in school.” Cub Koda got the idea for the song from memories of hanging out at a movie theatre with his childhood friends. They would smuggle cigarettes lifted from their parents into the men’s room at the Clinton Theater in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Friday nights. Coda says the “old duffer” who owned the theater would come after them, but never caught them in the act.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/brownsville-station/smokin-in-the-boys-room
Lyrics:
How you′re doin’ out there?
You ever seem to have one of those days
Where it just seems like everybody′s gettin’ on your case
From your teacher all the way down to your best girlfriend
Well, you know, I used to have ’em just about all the time
But I found a way to get out of it
Let me tell you about it
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