| Jethro Tull – Mother Goose Lyrics | 8 months ago |
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Some of the comments here have cleared this song up for me. Here are a few other thoughts: If the schoolgirls were sobbing due to the breakup of the Beatles (which feels right to me given the timing and the way the verses differ), perhaps he's saying that, even though he's years older, he's right there with them in their despair. He would have been a schoolboy in their heyday.. Long John Silver is a pirate from Treasure Island. I wonder if, in comparison to the people laboriously digging up every penny, he feels like he found wealth (i.e. treasure) almost too quickly and unfairly, like a pirate. As they dig, he laughs by the putting green like a rich person doing trivial things. I love the Piccadilly Circus line because I bet most Americans *still* think it's an actual circus, or a place with a circus-like atmosphere, not just a big roundabout. |
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