Jethro Tull - Roots to branches
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Jethro Tull
Roots To Branches
Intro: F#
then riff...
(0:38)
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Verse 1
BWords get written. Words get twisted.
Old meanings move in the drift of time
ALift the flickering torches.
See gentle shadows change
Bthe features of the faces
cut in unmoving stone
D5Bad E5mouth on a A5prayer G5day, hope no Bone's listening.
D5Roots E5down in the G5wet A5clay, F#branches glistening.
Riff
Verse 2:
True disciples
carrying that message
to colour just a little
with their personal touch.
Home-spun fancy weavers
and naked half-believers
Crusades and creeds
descend like fiery flakes of snow.
Bad mouth on a prayer day, hope no one's listening
Roots down in the wet clay, branches glistening
F#Roots to Branches.
Roots to Branches.
Roots to Branches.
Solo around riff in key of B
Verse 3:
In wet and windy priest-holes.
Grand in vast cathedrals
High on lofty minarets
or in the temples of doom
I hope the old man's got his face on.
He'd better be some quick change artist.
Suffer little children
to make their minds up soon.
Bad mouth on a prayer day, hope no one's listening.
Roots down in the wet clay, branches glistening.
F#Roots to Branches.
Roots to Branches.
Roots to Branches.
Switch on F# B
F#Roots to Branches.
Roots to Branches.
Roots to Branches.
riff 4x
End Riff
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End on B
Yost with the Most