Lyrics to
Up The ‘Pool

This version of Up The ‘Pool was released by Jethro Tull in 1972.

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I’m going up the `pool from down the smoke below
to taste my mum’s jam sarnies and see our Aunty Flo.
The candyfloss salesman watches ladies in the sand
down for a freaky weekend in the hope that they’ll be meeting
Mister Universe.

The iron tower smiles down upon the silver sea
and along the golden mile they’ll be swigging mugs of tea.
The politicians there who’ve come to take the air
while posing for the daily press
will look around and blame the mess
on Edward Bear.

There’ll be bucket, spades and bingo, cockles, mussels, rainy days,
seaweed and sand castles, icy waves.
Deck chairs, rubber dinghies, old vests, braces dangling down,
sun-tanned stranded starfish in a daze.

We’re going up the `pool from down the smoke below
to taste my mum’s jam sarnies and see our Aunty Flo.
The candy floss salesman watches ladies in the sand
down for a freaky weekend in the hope that they’ll be meeting
Mister Universe.

There’ll be buckets, spades and bingo, cockles, mussels, rainy days,
seaweed and sand castles, icy waves,
Deck chairs, rubber dinghies, old vests, braces dangling down,
sun-tanned stranded starfish in a daze.

Oh Blackpool,
oh Blackpool.

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides Up The ‘Pool. 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 Up The ‘Pool by Jethro Tull

The lyrics for Up The ‘Pool are defined as the words making up the song released by Jethro Tull in 1972. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Up The ‘Pool have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Jethro Tull and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Up The ‘Pool by Jethro Tull if you think through it. 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 Up The ‘Pool" means the words set to the music of Up The ‘Pool, 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 Up The ‘Pool and the lyrics to Up The ‘Pool 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 Up The ‘Pool, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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