Lyrics to
Minstrel In The Gallery

This version of Minstrel In The Gallery was released by Jethro Tull in 1975.

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The minstrel in the gallery looked down upon the
smiling faces.
He met the gazes — observed the spaces between the
old men’s cackle.
He brewed a song of love and hatred — oblique
suggestions — and he waited.
He polarized the pumpkin-eaters — static-humming
panel-beaters — freshly day-glow’d factory cheaters
(salaried and collar-scrubbing).
He titillated men-of-action — belly warming, hands
still rubbing on the parts they never mention.
He pacified the nappy-suffering, infant-bleating
one-line jokers — T.V. documentary makers
(overfed and undertakers).
Sunday paper backgammon players — family-scarred
and women-haters.
Then he called the band down to the stage and he
looked at all the friends he’d made.

The minstrel in the gallery looked down on the
rabbit-run.
And threw away his looking-glass – saw his face in
everyone.

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides Minstrel In The Gallery. 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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The lyrics to Minstrel In The Gallery are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Jethro Tull used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to Minstrel In The Gallery have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Jethro Tull and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Minstrel In The Gallery by Jethro Tull. 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 Minstrel In The Gallery" means the words set to the music of Minstrel In The Gallery, 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 Minstrel In The Gallery and the lyrics to Minstrel In The Gallery 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 Minstrel In The Gallery, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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