Lyrics to
Strip Cartoon

This version of Strip Cartoon was released by Jethro Tull in 1976.

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Fish and chips, sandpaper lips and a rainy pavement.
Soho lights, another night thinking of you.
Black cat, sat on a wall, winks at me darkly.
Suggesting ways and means that I might win a smile,
as you leave the place where you work until 12.30
and the policemen nods as you pass along his beat.
Sweaty feet, troubled brow we’re all in the same game, lady.
Life’s no bowl of cherries it’s a black and white strip cartoon.

I’ve been warned that you and your friends are crazy
as from your hearts you bare your parts to the gentlemen,
who, while they drool, trying to keep cool,
spill their Scotch and water.
But I’m not that way, I must say I’d much prefer to see
you in your texturised rubber rainwear around 12.30.
Come and play shades of grey in my black and white strip cartoon.

Strip cartoon is all I’m after.
Strip cartoon is all I crave,
so come to my place around 12.30
’cause I’m a leading politician
at a dangerous age.

Strip cartoon is all I’m after.
Strip cartoon is all I crave,
so come to my place around 12.30
’cause I’m a leading politician
at a dangerous age.

Strip cartoon, strip cartoon is all I’m after.
Strip cartoon is all I crave,
so come to my place around 12.30
’cause I’m a leading politician
at a dangerous age.

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides Strip Cartoon. 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 Strip Cartoon by Jethro Tull

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

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