Mother England Reverie tab by Jethro Tull

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MOTHER ENGLAND REVERIE by Jethro Tull
From "Minstrel in the Gallery" album

E MajorE|-12\2-|F# minorF#m      E MajorE         D MajorD   E MajorE|-12\2-| F# minorF#m
     I have no ti---me for Time Magazine or Rolling Stone.

[§]
e|-------------------------------2--|
BB|-------------------------------2--|
G+G|----------2--------------------2--|
D MajorD|--4-2-0-4----4-2----2----------4--|
A augmentedA|------------------4---4-2-0----4--|
E MajorE|----------------------------2-----|


F# minorF#m      E MajorE         D MajorD   E MajorE|-12\2-| F# minorF#m
 I have no wi---sh for wishing wells or wishing bones. [§]repeat twice

F# minorF#m           E MajorE   D MajorD    E MajorE|-12\2-| F# minorF#m
 I have no house in the country - I have no motorcar. [§]repeat and then

[%]
e|------------0--|
BB|------------2--|
G+G|------------2--|
D MajorD|------------2--|
A augmentedA|----4-------0--|
E MajorE|--2----2-4-----|

A augmentedA            E MajorE          D MajorD        E MajorE|-12\2-| F# minorF#m
 And if you think I'm joking then I'm just a one-line joker in a public bar.

[§]repeat

F# minorF#m              E MajorE    D MajorD       E MajorE|-12\2-| F# minorF#m
 And it seems there's nobody left for tennis and I'm a one band man. [§]and[%]repeat

A augmentedA      E MajorE F# minorF#m A augmentedA E MajorE      D MajorD   E MajorE|-12\2-| F# minorF#m
 And I want no To---p Twenty funeral or a hundred grand. [§]repeat


F# minorF#m      E MajorE          F# minorF#m
 There was a little boy stood on a burning log

A augmentedA      E MajorE G#G# C# minorC#m
 Rubbing his hands with glee.

A augmentedA          E MajorE        F# minorF#m   B7B7
 He said "Oh Mother England did you light my smile

B minorBm        A augmentedA        E MajorE
 Or did you light this fire under me?"

One day I'll be a minstrel in the gallery
And paint you a picture of the queen
And if sometimes I sing to a cynical degree
It's just the nonsense that it seems.

So I drift down through the Baker Street valley
In my steep-sided unreality
And when all's said and all's done, I couldn't wish for a better one
It's a real life ripe dead certainty -

That I'm just a Baker Street Muse

e|--2-3-6--|-2--0------|
BB|---------|------4-2--|


e|--4-5-9--|-5--3-2-0--|  repeat this
BB|---------|-----------|  4 times

Meantime Anderson sings:
Talking to the gutter-stinking, winking in the same old way
I tried to catch my eye but I looked the other way.


Indian restaurants that curry my brain     the basic chord's always F# minorF#m
Newspaper warriors changing the names      but I couldn't tell the others
They advertise from the station stand
Circumcised with cold print hands.


   //          E MajorE      D MajorD A augmentedA  E MajorE
 Windy bus stop. Click. Shop-window. He---el.

D MajorD  E MajorE F# minorF#m    E MajorE      D MajorD A augmentedA  E MajorE
 Shady gentleman. Fly-button. Fe---el.

A augmentedA       E MajorE     G+G     A augmentedA     E MajorE     C#C#
 In the underpass, a blind man stands with cold flute hands.

D?     A augmentedA       BB      E MajorE
 Symphony match-seller, breath out of time -

           C#C#   F# minorF#m
 You can call me on another line.


     E MajorE
 Didn't make her - with my Baker Street Ruse.

e|--2-3-2--|-2--0------|--2-3---2--|
BB|---------|------4-2--|-----------|

      E MajorE
 Couldn't shake her - with my Baker Street Bruise.

e|--2-3-2--|-2--0------|--2-3---2--|
BB|---------|------4-2--|-----------|

     E MajorE                   F# minorF#m
 Like to take her - I'm just a Baker Street Muse.

       D MajorD    E MajorE  F# minorF#m
 I'm just a Baker Street Muse.

 D MajorD   E MajorE    F# minorF#m
 Just a Baker Street Muse.

     D MajorD    E MajorE  F# minorF#m
 Just a Baker Street Muse.


Couldn't put down the final guitar. Maybe, one day...

D MajorD - E MajorE - F#F# - F# minorF#m