Dad writes school note blaming daughter's lateness on a Bruce Springsteen concert

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Springsteen played a three-and-a-half hour show in Albany on Monday
The next day, the dad of a local school girl wrote her teachers a note excusing her lateness by blaming the Boss
Patrick Pipino wrote that he penned the note 'in the interest of honesty'

Published: 14:46 EST, 9 February 2016 | Updated: 20:11 EST, 9 February 2016

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In his 1973 classic Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) Bruce Springsteen tells the song's subject that he wants the two of them to 'skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna feel alright.'

That's pretty much the same excuse that a New York dad made to his daughter's school teachers the day after a local Springsteen show.

A note that Patrick Pipino, from Albany, wrote to his 12-year-old's teacher has been widely shared online for its honesty.

'Please excuse Isabelle's tardiness to school today,' Pipino began the note.

The note that Albany dad Patrick Pipino wrote to his daughter's school teacher after a Bruce Springsteen show

The young Springsteen fans Isabelle, 12, and Sarah, 7, at the New Jersey rocker's Albany show on Monday

'In the interest of honesty, I feel it my obligation to be straight with all of you as to the reason. Last night Isabelle was lucky enough to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in Albany, and darned if he didn't play for three and a half hours.'

Springsteen, who is known to play lengthy shows despite turning 66 last year, performed at Albany's Times Union Center on Monday.

The New Jersey rocker is on tour performing the entirety of his 1980 double album The River.

Pipino's two daughters Isabelle, 12, and Sarah, seven, are both big fans of the Boss, he told ABC News.

'They both love Bruce Springsteen, and have ever since the older one was only four years old. Isabelle would be singing from the back seat and if I had something else on, she would say, "Dad, can we listen to Springsteen?"'

The local newspaper Albany Times Union called Monday's 34-song show both 'exhausting' and 'richly rewarding.'