Lyrics to
Big Dipper

This version of Big Dipper was released by Jethro Tull in 1976.

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The mist rolls off the beaches:
the train rolls into the station.
Weekend happiness seekers — pent-up saturation.
Well, we don’t mean anyone any harm,
we weren’t on the Glasgow train.
See you at the Pleasure Beach:
roller-coasting heroes.
Big Dipper riding —
we’ll give the local lads a hiding
if they keep us from the ladies
hanging out in the penny arcades.
Shaking up the Tower Ballroom
throwing up in the bathroom.
Landlady’s in the backroom —
I’m the Big Dipper —
it’s the weekend rage.

Rich widowed landlady give me your spare front door key.
If you’re 39 or over, I’ll make love to you next Thursday —
I may stay over for a week or two
drop a postcard to my mum.
I’ll see you at the waltzer —
we’ll go big-dipping daily.

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides Big Dipper. Jethro Tull released songs from 1968 to 2003 spanning across albums like This Was, Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung, Living In The Past, Thick As A Brick, A Passion Play, Warchild, Minstrel In The Gallery, Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die!, Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses, Stormwatch, A, The Broadsword And The Beast, Under Wraps, Crest Of A Knave, Rock Island, Catfish Rising, Nightcap, Roots To Branches, J-Tull Dot Com, and The Jethro Tull Christmas Album. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Jethro Tull.

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About Lyrics and Big Dipper by Jethro Tull

The lyrics for Big Dipper are defined as the words making up the song released by Jethro Tull in 1976. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Big Dipper have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Jethro Tull and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Big Dipper by Jethro Tull if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Big Dipper" means the words set to the music of Big Dipper, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jethro Tull. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Big Dipper and the lyrics to Big Dipper are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jethro Tull who came here looking just for the lyrics to Big Dipper, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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