Weathercock Lyrics

Lyric discussion by TAI 

Cover art for Weathercock lyrics by Jethro Tull

It's fairly straight forward, the whole album uses animals and other country-type to make observations about the world and humans. This song is literally about a weathercock, performing its simple job and pointing the way to better days. One can just imagine exiting a farm, looking up at the iron rooster, and wondering whether it is the weather controlling the cock, or the other way round.

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