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Queen And Country

This version of Queen And Country was released by Jethro Tull in 1974.

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The wind is on the river and the tide has turned too late,
so we’re sailing for another shore where some other ladies wait.
To throw us silken whispers: catch us by the anchor chains —
But we all laugh so politely and we sail on just the same.
For Queen and Country in the long dying day,
And it’s been this way for five long years,
since we signed our souls away.
We bring back gold and ivory; rings of diamonds; strings of pearls —
make presents to the government
so they can have their social whirl
With Queen and Country in the long dying day.
And it’s been this way for five long years
since we signed our souls away.
They build schools and they build factories
With the spoils of battles won.
And we remain their pretty sailor boys —
hold our heads up to the gun
Of Queen and Country in the long dying day.
And it’s been this way for five long years
since we signed our souls away.
To Queen and Country in the long dying day.
And it’s been this way for five long years
since we signed our souls away.

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides Queen And Country. 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 Queen And Country by Jethro Tull

The lyrics to Queen And Country are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Jethro Tull used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Queen And Country 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 Queen And Country 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 Queen And Country" means the words set to the music of Queen And Country, 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 Queen And Country and the lyrics to Queen And Country 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 Queen And Country, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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