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From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser

This version of From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser was released by Jethro Tull in 1976.

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From a dead beat to an old greaser, here’s thinking of you.
You won’t remember the long nights;
coffee bars; black tights and white thighs
in shop windows where blonde assistants fully-fashioned a world made
of dummies (with no mummies or daddies to reject them).
When bombs were banned every Sunday and the Shadows played F.B.I.
And tired young sax-players sold their instruments of torture —
sat in the station sharing wet dreams of Charlie Parker,
Jack Kerouac, Ren’e Magritte, to name a few of the heroes
who were too wise for their own good — left the young brood to
go on living without them.

Old queers with young faces — who remember your name,
though you’re a dead beat with tired feet;
two ends that don’t meet.
To a dead beat from an old greaser.

Think you must have me all wrong.
I didn’t care, friend. I wasn’t there, friend,
If it’s the price of pint that you need, ask me again.

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You can understand the lyrics to From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser 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 From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser" means the words set to the music of From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser, 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 From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser and the lyrics to From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser 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 From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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