Lyrics to
Dun Ringill

This version of Dun Ringill was released by Jethro Tull in 1979.

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Clear light on a slick palm
as I mis-deal the day
Slip the night from a shaved pack
make a marked card play
Call twilight hours down
from a heaven home
high above the highest bidder
for the good Lord’s throne
In the wee hours I’ll meet you
down by Dun Ringill —
oh, and we’ll watch the old gods play
by Dun Ringill
We’ll wait in stone circles
`til the force comes through —
lines joint in faint discord
and the stormwatch brews
a concert of kings
as the white sea snaps
at the heels of a soft prayer
whispered
In the wee hours I’ll meet you
down by Dun Ringill —
oh, and I’ll take you quickly
by Dun Ringill

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides Dun Ringill. 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 Dun Ringill by Jethro Tull

When you decide to study the lyrics to Dun Ringill, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Jethro Tull. Some of the lyrics to Dun Ringill have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Jethro Tull and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Dun Ringill if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Dun Ringill" means the words set to the music of Dun Ringill, 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 Dun Ringill and the lyrics to Dun Ringill 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 Dun Ringill, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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