Lyrics to
Quizz Kid

This version of Quizz Kid was released by Jethro Tull in 1976.

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Cut along the dotted line — slip in and seal the flap.
Postal competition crazy, though you wear the dunce’s cap.
Win a fortnight in Ibiza — line up for the big hand out.
You’ll never know unless you try — what winning’s all about —
be a quizz kid.
Be a whizz kid.

Six days later there’s a rush telegram
Drop everything and telephone this number if you can.
It’s a free trip down to London for a weekend of high life.
They’ll wine you; dine you; undermine you —
better not bring the wife —
be a quizz kid.
Be a whizz kid.

It’s a try out for a quizz show that millions watch each week.
Following the fate and fortunes of contestants as they speak.
Answerable to everyone; responsible to all; publicity dissected —
brain cells splattered on the walls of encyclopaedic knowledge.
May be barbaric but it’s fun.
As the clock ticks away a lifetime,
hold your head up to the gun of a million cathode ray tubes
aimed at your tiny skull.
May you find sweet inspiration — may your memory not be dull.
May you rise to dizzy success.
May your wit be quick and strong.
May you constantly amaze us.
May your answers not be wrong.
May your head be on your shoulders.
May your tongue be in your cheek.
And most of all we pray that you may come back next week!
Be a quizz kid.
Be a whizz kid.

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides Quizz Kid. 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 Quizz Kid by Jethro Tull

The lyrics for Quizz Kid are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Jethro Tull. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Quizz Kid have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Quizz Kid - Jethro Tull and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Quizz Kid by Jethro Tull in multiple ways. 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 Quizz Kid" means the words set to the music of Quizz Kid, 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 Quizz Kid and the lyrics to Quizz Kid 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 Quizz Kid, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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