Lyric discussion by PrimoBabe 

This song isn't referring at all to the venerable College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, is sometimes nicknamed "the William and Mary of the north". The Wolverine is a passenger train that once ran from Boston-New York-Detroit-Chicago and stopped close to Bard College.

The song's about a marijuana drug bust. The drug references are subtle: "smoking with the boys" and oleander (a plant that doesn't grow in New York's climate unless under an ultraviolet growth light).

The bitter narrator had an equally culpable female accomplice who turned state's witness in return for leniency.

Right on dude.

Plus, because of all the bad stuff that's happened, he's never, ever going back to Annandale probably can't either after being kicked out for drugs... ["California tumbles into the sea...that'll be the day I go back to Annandale."]

Right on dude.

Plus, because of all the bad stuff that's happened, he's never, ever going back to Annandale probably can't either after being kicked out for drugs... ["California tumbles into the sea...that'll be the day I go back to Annandale."]

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