Lyrics to
Pied Piper

This version of Pied Piper was released by Jethro Tull in 1976.

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Now if you think Ray blew it,
there was nothing to it.
They patched him up as good as new.
You can see him every day —
riding down the queen’s highway,
handing out his small cigars to the kids from school.
And all the little girls with their bleached blond curls
clump up on their platform soles.
And they say “Hey Ray — let’s ride away
downtown where we can roll some alley bowls.”
And Ray grins from ear to here, and whispers…

So follow me. Trail along.
my leather jacket’s buttoned up.
And my four-stroke song
will pick you up when your last class ends;
and you can tell all your friends:
The Pied Piper pulled you,
The mad biker fooled you,
I’ll do what you want to:
If you ride with me on a Friday
anything goes.

So follow me, hold on tight.
My school girl fancy’s flowing in free flight.
I’ve a tenner in my skin tight jeans.
You can touch it if your hands are clean.

The Pied Piper pulled you,
the mad biker folled you,
I’ll do what you want to:
If you ride with me on a Friday
anything goes.

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides Pied Piper. 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 Pied Piper by Jethro Tull

The lyrics for Pied Piper 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 Pied Piper 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 Pied Piper 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 Pied Piper" means the words set to the music of Pied Piper, 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 Pied Piper and the lyrics to Pied Piper 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 Pied Piper, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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