Let me bring you songs from the wood:
To make you feel much better than you could know.
Dust you down from tip to toe,
Show you how the garden grows,
Hold you steady as you go.
Join the chorus if you can:
It’ll make of you an honest man.Let me bring you love from the field:
Poppies red and roses filled with summer rain.
To heal the wound and still the pain
That threatens again and again
As you drag down every lovers lane.
Life’s long celebrations here;
I’ll toast you all in penny cheer.Let me bring you all things refined:
Galliards and lute songs served in chilling ale.
Greetings well met fellow, hail!
I am the wind to fill your sail,
I am the cross to take your nail:
A singer of these ageless times.
With kitchen prose and gutter rhymes.Songs from the wood make you feel much better.
Songs From The Wood… by Jethro Tull
April 3, 2009 by Kullervo
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I now start humming to myself every time a new post of yours comes up in my feed reader. Keep posting at this rate and I will have a permanent Tull earworm going on. Not that that’s a bad thing (though I think “Cup of Wonder” is my favorite.)
“Cup of Wonder” is sweet because it may well be about drinking sacrificial blood. “Velvet Green” and “Fires At Midnight” are probably my favorites. But there are absolutely no weak songs on that entire record.
Anyway, “Songs From The Wood” is great, and it seemed to fit.
That was my first Tull album… followed almost immediately by Heavy Horses. Given that I was highly active in the SCA at the time, it was too perfect. Oddly enough, I didn’t get around to listening to Aqualung until years later.
(I accidentally typed Aqualounge, which just brings up some horrible images…
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I like “Fires at Midnight” but probably, for some odd reason, think my favorite is “Hunting girl”. I always hear that song and have some D&D epic adventure-montage flashing in my head until it’s over.
I get movies in my head from Hunting Girl as well, but I have to admit they’re not about D&D…