Topic: Songs From The Wood

[Angela]

Songs From The Wood
Jethro Tull

Let me bring you songs from the wood:
to make you feel much better than you could know.
Dust you down from tip to toe.
Show you how the garden grows.
Hold you steady as you go.
Join the chorus if you can:
it'll make of you an honest man.
Let me bring you love from the field:
poppies red and roses filled with summer rain.
To heal the wound and still the pain
that threatens again and again
as you drag down every lover's lane.
Life's long celebration's here.
I'll toast you all in penny cheer.
Let me bring you all things refined:
galliards and lute songs served in chilling ale.
Greetings well met fellow, hail!
I am the wind to fill your sail.
I am the cross to take your nail:
A singer of these ageless times.
With kitchen prose and gutter rhymes.
Songs from the wood make you feel much better.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUw6t3b6oE
 

[nichi]

Beautiful lyrics, s.

[Angela]

Beautiful lyrics, s.

[TIOTIT]

  another of my favs...

[Angela]

Look Into The Sun
Jethro Tull

Took a sad song of one sweet evening
I smiled and quickly turned away.
It's not easy singing sad songs
but still the easiest way I have to say.
So when you look into the sun
and see the things we haven't done
oh was it better then to run
than to spend the summer crying.
Now summer cannot come anyway.

I had waited for time to change her.
The only change that came was over me.
She pretended not to want love
I hope she was only fooling me.
So when you look into the sun
look for the pleasures nearly won.
Or was it better then to run
than to spend the summer singing.
And summer could have come in a day.

So if you hear my sad song singing
remember who and what you nearly had.
It's not easy singing sad songs
when you can sing the song to make me glad.
So when you look into the sun
and see the words you could have sung:
It's not too late, only begun,
we can still make summer.
Yes, summer always comes anyway.

So when you look into the sun
and see the words you could have sung:
It's not too late, only begun.
Look into the sun.

[Angela]

Jethro Tull - Boureé

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W37x7lNP4DY

...and Ian with much more accompaniment ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCy8-o-mBdU&feature=related

...hmmm...

Here's another...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pA8h8_1bLA&feature=related

I think I like the first one   

[Jahn]

For me Jethro Tull is Aqualung.


Aqualung - Live

[Jahn]

Slipstream

[Angela]

Locomotive Breath
Jethro Tull

In the shuffling madess
of the locomotive breath,
runs the all-time loser,
headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping --
steam breaking on his brow --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train won't stop going --
no way to slow down.
He sees his children jumping off
at the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
in bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
on his hands and knees --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train won't stop going --
no way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling --
catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideons Bible --
open at page one --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train won't stop going --
no way to slow down.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdz_G1VGJ4c&feature=related

[Jahn]

I am amazed who well Ian Andersons voice is recorded in their performance.

[Angela]

I am amazed who well Ian Andersons voice is recorded in their performance.

Me too...at first I thought it was dubbed in. 

Great performance...what a showman he is!