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Jethro Tull - Coronach Lyrics

Artist: Jethro Tull

Album: Miscellaneous

Genre: Blues

Jethro Tull
Miscellaneous
Coronach
Grey the mist, cold the dawn,
Cruel the sea and stern the shore.
Brave the man who sets his course
For Albion.

Sweet the rose, sharp the thorn,
Meek the soil, and proud the corn.
Blessed the lamb that would be born
Within this green and pleasant land.

Coronach.
Coronach.
Coronach.

Coronach.
Coronach.
Coronach.

Brown furrow shine beneath the rain-washed blue
Bright crystal streams from eagle mountains born.
Fortune has smiled on those who wake anew
Within this fortress nature builds to stay the hand of war.

With the wind from the east
Came the first of those that tread
Upon this shore, this throne of kings,
This realm, this new Jerusalem.

Coronach.
Coronach.
Coronach.

Coronach. (Coronach.)
Coronach. (Coronach.)
Coronach. (Coronach.)

(Note: Exactly what the chorus is saying is unclear. The best suggestion I've
heard is that it's the gaelic pronunciation of "Coronach".)


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  • Anonymous

    Coronoch is a Scottish-Gaelic word for death and the name of mourning and lamentation. In his poem cycle "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832 - Born in Edinburgh, renowned for his novel Ivanhoe), there is a poem entitled "Coronoch. He wrote, "The Coronoch of the Highlanders ... what a wild expression of lamentation, poured forth by the mourners over the body of a departed friend."

    The chorus "Hi-O-Ran-I-Ro" is, according to Ian Anderson a Gaelic war cry.

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