by Ian Anderson on album Ian Anderson Plays The Orchestral Jethro Tull

by Ian Anderson on album Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull

by Ian Anderson on album Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull

by Ian Anderson on album Ian Anderson Plays The Orchestral Jethro Tull

As I did walk by Hampstead Fair I came upon Mother Goose So I turned her loose She was screaming And a foreign student said to me Was it really true There were elephants and lions too In Picadilly Ci

by Ian Anderson on album Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull

As I did walk by Hampstead Fair I came upon Mother Goose So I turned her loose She was screaming And a foreign student said to me Was it really true There were elephants and lions too In Picadilly Ci

by Ian Anderson on album Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull

As I did walk by Hampstead Fair I came upon Mother Goose So I turned her loose She was screaming And a foreign student said to me Was it really true There were elephants and lions too In Picadilly Ci

by Ian Anderson on album Ian Anderson Plays The Orchestral Jethro Tull

When you're falling awake And you take stock of the new day And you hear your voice croak As you choke on what you need to say, Well, don't you fret, don't you fear, I will give you good cheer. Life'

by Ian Anderson on album Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull

When you're falling awake And you take stock of the new day And you hear your voice croak As you choke on what you need to say, Well, don't you fret, don't you fear, I will give you good cheer. Life'

by Ian Anderson on album Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull

When you're falling awake And you take stock of the new day And you hear your voice croak As you choke on what you need to say, Well, don't you fret, don't you fear, I will give you good cheer. Life'

by Ian Anderson on album Thick As a Brick 2

From playing fields to killing fields: just one small step of madness. Officer training, uniform, boys together shower together. Rank and file can be just fine but that's not what we're here for. S

by Ian Anderson on album Thick As a Brick 2

Education, micro-managed. MBA: a doddle mastered. City-bound, Canary Wharf. A cushy number, fluky bastard. Banker bets and banker wins, never missed yet, for all his sins. Hedge funds, wraps an

by Ian Anderson on album Thick As a Brick 2

Gerald the Banker Fresh start, another day, another life, a quiet cafe. Starbuck euphoria. Count my blessings, crossword ready. Soon, pipe and slippers in the study by the telly. I seek forgiveness

by Ian Anderson on album Thick As a Brick 2

We all must wonder, now and then, if things had turned out - well - just plain different. Chance path taken, page unturned or brief encounter, blossomed, splintered. Might I have been the man of co

by Ian Anderson on album Thick As a Brick 2

Let us pray: Dear Beloved Father: We know it's tough to make ends meet through troubled times as economic woes grow, bad to worse. But call out to our family of treasured followers to make a ple

by Ian Anderson on album Thick As a Brick 2

Last lights wink out on this pale and sultry night. Stars signal long past two AM. I feel the lateness in the hour and I'm fifty long years from home. A new dawn glimmers. Time for a change of h

by Ian Anderson on album Thick As a Brick 2

I was no good on the rugger field. Pushing and kicking, brutish boys bothered me. Sensitive and caring seemed the lighter, brighter way to be. Mr Jennings, good housemaster, seemed instinctively

by Ian Anderson on album Thick As a Brick 2

Take me on the ghost train 20p and there you are Scary in the tunnel night White knuckle fingers on the safety bar Which way to blue skies? Phantoms pop from cupboard doors Mocking, manic laught

by Ian Anderson on album Thick As a Brick 2

Hourglass sands run through my veins like blood draining from a salty wound. Mad Mars forgets the cost of strife, serves no longer, purpose in my life. I lie in sweat, cry others' tears and write a

by Ian Anderson on album Thick As a Brick 2

He stands at the crossroads of New St. and Old Town. Gerald Something from good-home-on-sea. Thinking back to the child that he once was. All bread and butter and jam for his tea. Men came and w

by Ian Anderson on album Thick As a Brick 2

Where did it come from, where's it going? Upper sixth loan shark, numbers flowing from the pen that never forgets, recording ledgers, each-way safe bets. Fauntleroys and first form fags, allowan