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Taxi Grab

This version of Taxi Grab was released by Jethro Tull in 1976.

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Shake a leg, it’s the big rush,
can’t find a taxi can’t find a bus.
Bodies jammed in the underground
evacuating London town.
Nowhere to put your feet
as the big store shoppers and the pavements meet.
Red lights — pin stripes — short step shuffle into the night.
Tea time calls — the Bingo Halls open at seven in the old front stalls.
How about a Taxi Grab.

There’s an empty cab by the taxi stand
driver’s in the cafe washing his hands.
Big diesel idles — the keys inside —
c’mon Sally let’s take a ride.
Flag down — uptown — no sweat.
For rush hour travel, it’s the best bet yet.
Taxi Grab.

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides Taxi Grab. 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 Taxi Grab are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Jethro Tull used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Taxi Grab 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 Taxi Grab 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 Taxi Grab" means the words set to the music of Taxi Grab, 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 Taxi Grab and the lyrics to Taxi Grab 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 Taxi Grab, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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