Jethro Tull "Locomotive Breath" ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJkmHQ2q--I ...
... heard it here first today ...
http://www.pandora.com/station/play/1993110561942645189 ...
Locomotive Breath
Song by Jethro Tull
In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all, time loser,
Headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping
Steam breaking on his brow
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train it won't stop going
No way to slow down.
He sees his children jumping off
At the stations one by one.
His woman and his best friend
In bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train it won't stop going
No way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling
Catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideons Bible
Open at page one
God He stole the handle and
The train won't stop going
No way to slow down.
No way to slow down.
No way to slow down.
No way…
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Jethro Tull - Aqualung [Full Album] -
with interview at end ...
56:00 minute mark "a lot of overdubs ..."
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Thick as a brick is kind of cool too ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9JEPeeohYs ... lyrics-wise and in many ways ...
Did you ever get into Jethro Tull's "Locomotive Breath" ... and Aqualung ... which you'll also find here with lyrics ...
https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodMusic/posts/1CEXPNU9eMc ?
Kind of brought me back to Edinburgh, and appreciate the amalgam of classical, blues and rock ... flute ... + ... and read the Youtube video notes ... Ian Anderson dubbed much of this because he was having trouble communicating his ideas to band members :)
There's a lot of a kind of hippy response to Scottish society in this music ... surprise, surprise ... Scottish hippies? Naw ....
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Here's the beginning World University Music School planned for ALL instruments and ALL languages, each a wiki subject page to begin -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School -
and here's where I'm posting related enjoyable music -
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodMusic/posts
And some related Jethro Tull musical wiki subject pages -
Flute -
Classical_Western_Music -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Blues
Folk_rock_music -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Folk_rock_music
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