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Jethro Tull
Roots To Branches

Intro:  F#

then riff...
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Verse 1

B
Words get written. Words get twisted.
Old meanings move in the drift of time
A
Lift the flickering torches.
See gentle shadows change
B
the features of the faces
cut in unmoving stone
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Bad mouth on a prayer day, hope no one's listening.
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Roots down in the wet clay, 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

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