Lyrics to
The Third Hoorah

This version of The Third Hoorah was released by Jethro Tull in 1974.

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Hoorah!

WarChild, dance the days and nights away —
sweet child, how do you do today?
When your back’s to the wall,
and your luck is your all,
then side with whoever you may.
Seek that which within lies waiting to begin
the fight of your life that is everyday.
Dance with the WarChild — Hoorah.

WarChild, dance the days and nights away —
sweet child, how do you do today?
In the heart of your heart, there’s the tiniest part
of an urge to live to the death —
with a sword on your hip and a cry on your lips
to strike life in the inner child’s breast.
Dance with the WarChild — Hoorah.

WarChild, dance the days and nights away —
sweet child, how do you do today?

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides The Third Hoorah. 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 The Third Hoorah by Jethro Tull

The lyrics for The Third Hoorah are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Jethro Tull. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to The Third Hoorah 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 The Third Hoorah - 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 The Third Hoorah 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 The Third Hoorah" means the words set to the music of The Third Hoorah, 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 The Third Hoorah and the lyrics to The Third Hoorah 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 The Third Hoorah, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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