Jethro Tull - Mother England Reverie guitar tab

Mother England Reverie capo 2 fret

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I have no time for Time Magazine or Rolling Stone.

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I have no wish for wishing wells or wishing bones.

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I have no house in the country I have no motor car.

G D

And if you think I'm joking,

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then I'm just a one-line joker in a public bar.

Em D

And it seems there's no-body left for

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tennis; and I'm a one-band-man.

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And I want no Top Twenty funeral or a hundred grand.

Em D Em

There was a little boy stood on a burning log,

G D Bm B7

rubbing his hands with glee.

G D

He said, ``Oh Mother England,

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did you light my smile; or did you light this fire under me?

G D Em

One day I'll be a minstrel in the gallery.

G D B7

And paint you a picture of the queen.

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And if sometimes I sing to a cynical degree ---

Am C D B7

it's just the nonsense that it seems.''

G D Em

So I drift down through the Baker Street valley,

G D B7

in my steep-sided un-reality.

G D

And when all is said and all is done --- I couldn't wish

Em A

for a better one.

Am C D B7

It's a real-life ripe dead certainty ---

that I'm just a Baker Street Muse.

riff 1

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Words and music by IAN ANDERSON

TRANSCRIPTION BY PACO JIMENEZ (SPAIN)

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