Jethro Tull - The Rattlesnake Trail Lyrics
Got a hair shirt round my shoulder. Got a cold stew in my spoon.
And I'm falling on my head, lifting feet of lead ---
now it's got me baying at the moon.
Well, there's a race on for tomorrow. I'm stretching out
for what might have been.
play rough --- you know what I mean.
I'm going for the kill. I'm going tooth and nail
up that dusty hill --- on the rattlesnake trail.
Got the law laid down to the left of me. Got the real world to the right.
Heading up through the middle with my cat and my fiddle ---
yeah, looking for a fight.
Going to ride hard in bandit country --- on the blind side of the bend.
Keep my nose to the wind while the rabbit's skinned ---
bed down at the journey's end. (Be a rattlesnake.)
up that dusty hill --- on the rattlesnake trail.
The rattlesnake trail.
I'm going on the rattlesnake trail.
Going to be with wolves in winter --- run in angry packs by day.
But when you give a dog a bone, he has to be alone ---
growl, keep the other dogs away.
See that thin moon on the mountain. See that cold star in the sky.
Going to bring them down --- shake them to the ground ---
put that apple in the pie. (Be a rattlesnake.)
I'm going for the kill. I'm going tooth and nail
up that dusty hill --- on the rattlesnake trail.
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Jethro Tull The Rattlesnake Trail Comments
Nada como la buena musica
I've always thought this song sounds like what would happen if Jethro Tull and ZZ Top had a baby (and that's not a bad thing).
I just thought of ZZ Top as well ( before seeing your comment)!
The phrase "up that dusty hill" repeating through the lyrics can't be a coincidence.
Perfect observation
love this cut! yeah! wooh!
Where is the Rattlesnake Trail, and did Ian really hike on it ?
+justgivemethetruth I dont know :/
No. He was far too busy beating his lawyers. He'd just hold the flute with his teeth and beat the daylights out of them with a pair of large salmon. He kept several on hand at all times for just such occasions. Anderson is not above employing sexual euphemisms as devices or muses or muses employing devices if the occasion should arise to employ a device as a muse. Got it?!?
IAN ANDERSON = MASTER OF MASTERS .
Gracias!