"A New Day Yesterday"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson
Stand Up (1969); Repeat: The Best of Jethro Tull Vol. II (1977); Live: Bursting Out (1978); 20 Years of Jethro Tull: Radio Archives and Rare Tracks (1988);
A Little Light Music (1992); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Beacons Bottom Tapes (1993); The Best of Jethro Tull: The Anniversary Collection (1993);
Live At The BBC (1996);
36 Greatest Hits (1998); The Very Best of Jethro Tull (2001); Stand Up Remastered (2001); Live: Bursting Out Remastered (2004);
Stand Up: The Collector's Edition (2010);
All The Best (2012); Stand Up: The Elevated Edition (2016); Songs From The Wood: The 40th Anniversary Country Set Edition (2017);
Heavy Horses: The 40th Anniversary New Shoes Edition (2018); 50 For 50 (2018); Live: Bursting Out: The Inflated Edition (2024)
Bootlegs: Rainbow Theatre London 8 May 1978 (1978); Nostell Priory UK 08-24-1982 (1982); National Concert Hall Dublin (2011); FM Broadcast London 1968 (2020);
BBC Top Gear '68-'69 (2022);
Live In Switzerland 2005 (2023); Live From Baloise Session Basel 11-15-2008 (2025)
Tributes: To Cry You A Song: A Collection of Tull Tales (1996)
My first and last time with you and we had some fun
Went walking through the trees, yeah and then I kissed you once
Oh I want to see you soon, but I wonder how
It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now
Spent a long time looking for a game to play
My luck should be so bad now to turn out this way
Oh I had to leave today, just when I thought I'd found you
It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now
"Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson
Stand Up (1969); Stand Up Remastered (2001); Stand Up: The Collector's Edition (2010); Stand Up: The Elevated Edition (2016)
Bright city woman walking down Leicester Square everyday
Gonna get a piece of my mind, you think you're not a piece of my kind
Ev'rywhere the people looking, why don't you get up and sing?
Bright city woman where did you learn all the things you say?
You listen to the newsmen on TV, you may fool yourself but you don't fool me
I'll see you in another place, another time, you may be someone's, but you won't be mine
"Bouree" (Instrumental)
music arranged by Ian Anderson
Stand Up (1969); Living In The Past (1972); Repeat: The Best of Jethro Tull Vol. II (1977); 20 Years of Jethro Tull: Radio Archives and Rare Tracks (1988);
A Little Light Music (1992); The Best of Jethro Tull: The Anniversary Collection (1993); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Beacons Bottom Tapes (1993);
Aqualung: 25th Anniversary Special Edition (1996); The Very Best of Jethro Tull (2001); Stand Up Remastered (2001); Living In The Past Remastered (2001);
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album (2003); Nothing Is Easy: Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 (2004); Ian Anderson Plays The Orchestral Jethro Tull (2005);
Live At Montreux 2003 (2007); Stand Up: The Collector's Edition (2010); All The Best (2012); Minstrel In The Gallery: 40th Anniversary La Grande dition (2015);
Stand Up: The Elevated Edition (2016); Songs From The Wood: The 40th Anniversary Country Set Edition (2017); Heavy Horses: 40th Anniversary New Shoes Edition (2018);
50 For 50 (2018); 50th Anniversary Collection (2018); Stormwatch: 40th Anniversary Force 10 Edition (2019); Live: Bursting Out: The Inflated Edition (2024); Live In Berlin 1985 (2025)
Bootlegs: Rainbow Theatre London 8 May 1978 (1977); One Flute Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1990); National Concert Hall Dublin (2011);
FM Broadcast London 1968 (2020); BBC Top Gear '68-'69 (2022);
Live In Switzerland 2005 (2023); Live In Berlin 1985 (2023);
Live From Baloise Session Basel 11-15-2008 (2025)
Tributes: A Classic Case (1985)
"Back To The Family"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson
Stand Up (1969); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Live Across The World and Through The Years (1993); Stand Up Remastered (2001); Stand Up: The Collector's Edition (2010);
Stand Up: The Elevated Edition (2016)
Bootlegs: Live In Sweden '69 (2020); Live At The Newport Pop Festival 1969 (2021)
My telephone wakes me in the morning, have to get up to answer the call
So I think I'll go back to the family where no one can ring me at all
Living this life has its problems, so I think that I'll give it a break
Oh, I'm going back to the family, 'cos I've had about all I can take
Master's in the counting house counting all his money
Sister's sitting by the mirror, she thinks her hair looks funny
And here am I thinking to myself, just wond'ring what things to do
I think I enjoyed all my problems, where I did not get nothing for free
Oh, I'm going back to the family, doing nothing is bothering me
I'll get a train back to the city, that soft life is getting me down
There's more fun away from the family, get some action when I pull into town
Everything I do is wrong, what the hell was I thinking?
Phone keeps ringing all day long, I got no time for thinking
And every day has the same old way of giving me too much to do
"Look Into The Sun"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson
Stand Up (1969); A Little Light Music (1992); Stand Up Remastered (2001); Stand Up: The Collector's Edition (2010); Stand Up: The Elevated Edition (2016)
Took a sad song of one sweet evening, I smiled and quickly turned away
It's not easy singing sad songs, but still the easiest way I have to say
So when you look into the sun and see the things we haven't done
Oh was it better then to run than to spend the summer crying, now summer cannot come anyway
I had waited for time to change her, the only change that came was over me
She pretended not to want love, I hope she was only fooling me
So when you look into the sun, look for the pleasures nearly won
Or was it better then to run than to spend the summer singing and summer could have come in a day
So if you hear my sad song singing, remember who and what you nearly had
It's not easy singing sad songs, when you can sing the song to make me glad
So when you look into the sun and see the words you could have sung
It's not too late, only begun, we can still make summer, yes, summer always comes anyway
So when you look into the sun and see the words you could have sung
It's not too late, only begun, look into the sun
"Nothing Is Easy"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson
Stand Up (1969); 'M.U.': The Best of Jethro Tull (1975); The Best of Jethro Tull: The Anniversary Collection (1993); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Carnegie Hall 1970 (1993);
25 Years of Jethro Tull: Live Across The World and Through The Years (1993); 36 Greatest Hits (1998); Stand Up Remastered (2001); Living With The Past (2002);
The Essential Jethro Tull (2003); Nothing Is Easy: Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 (2004); Live At Montreux 2003 (2007); Stand Up: The Collector's Edition (2010);
All The Best (2012); Stand Up: The Elevated Edition (2016); 50 For 50 (2018); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)
Bootlegs: Anaheim 10/19/1970/"Flute Cake" (1970); Jack In The Green: Live In Germany 1970-1993 (1993); National Concert Hall Dublin (2011);
Live In Sweden '69 (2020); FM Broadcast London 1968 (2020);
Midnight In Chicago (Live 1970) (2021); Live At The Newport Pop Festival 1969 (2021);
BBC Top Gear '68-'69 (2022); At The Turn of A Page (2023); Live In Switzerland 2005 (2023); Boston Tea Party (2024);
Live From Baloise Session Basel 11-15-2008 (2025)
Tributes: To Cry You A Song: A Collection of Tull Tales (1996)
Nothing is easy, though time gets you worrying my friend, it's o.k.
Just take your life easy and stop all that hurrying, be happy my way
When tension starts mounting and you've lost count of the pennies you've missed
Just try hard and see why they're not worrying me, they're last on my list, nothing's easy
Nothing is easy, you'll find that the squeeze, won't turn out so bad
Your fingers may freeze, worse things happen at sea, there's good times to be had
So if you're alone and you're down to the bone, just give us a play
You'll smile in a while and discover that I'll get you happy my way, nothing's easy
"Fat Man"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson
Stand Up (1969); 'M.U.': The Best of Jethro Tull (1975); 20 Years of Jethro Tull: Radio Archives and Rare Tracks (1988); Aqualung: 25th Anniversary Special Edition (1996);
36 Greatest Hits (1998); Stand Up Remastered (2001); Living With The Past (2002); The Essential Jethro Tull (2003); The Best of Acoustic Jethro Tull (2007);
Live At Montreux 2003 (2007); Stand Up: The Collector's Edition (2010); All The Best (2012); Stand Up: The Elevated Edition (2016)
Bootlegs: Capitol Theatre 10/28/84 (1984); Nostell Priory UK 08-24-1982 (1982); One Flute Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1990); FM Broadcast London 1968 (2020);
BBC Top Gear '68-'69 (2022); London Fields (2023)
Don't want to be a fat man, people would think that I was just good fun
Would rather be a thin man, I am so glad to go on being one
Too much to carry around with you, no chance of finding a woman
Who will love you in the morning and all the night time too
Don't want to be a fat man, have not the patience to ignore all that
Hate to admit to myself, half of my problems came from being fat
Won't waste my time feeling sorry for him, I seen the other side to being thin
Roll us both down a mountain and I'm sure the fat man would win
"We Used To Know"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson
Stand Up (1969); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Carnegie Hall 1970 (1993); Through The Years (1997); Stand Up Remastered (2001); Nothing Is Easy: Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 (2004);
Stand Up: The Collector's Edition (2010); Stand Up: The Elevated Edition (2016); The String Quartets (2017); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)
Bootlegs: Anaheim 10/19/1970 - "Flute Cake" (1970); Midnight In Chicago (Live 1970) (2021); Live At The Newport Pop Festival 1969 (2021);
At The Turn of A Page (2023); Boston Tea Party (2024)
Whenever I get to feel this way, try to find new words to say
I think about the bad old days, we used to know
Nights of winter turn me cold, fears of dying, getting old
We ran the race and the race was won by running slowly
Could be soon we'll cease to sound, slowly upstairs, faster down
Then to revisit stony grounds, we used to know
Remembering mornings, shillings spent, made no sense to leave the bed
The bad old days they came and went, giving way to fruitful years
Saving up the birds in hand, while in the bush the others land
Take what we can before the man, says it's time to go
Each to his own way, I'll go mine, best of luck in what you find
But for your own sake remember times, we used to know
"Reasons For Waiting"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson
Stand Up (1969); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Carnegie Hall 1970 (1993); Stand Up Remastered (2001); Stand Up: The Collector's Edition (2010);
Stand Up: The Elevated Edition (2016); The String Quartets (2017); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)
Bootlegs: Anaheim 10/19/1970 - "Flute Cake" (1970); Midnight In Chicago (Live 1970) (2021)
What a sight for my eyes to see you in sleep, could it stop the sun rise hearing you weep?
You're not seen, you're not heard, but I stand by my word
Came a thousand miles, just to catch you while you're smiling
What a day for laughter and walking at night, we following after, your hand holding tight
And the memory stays clear, with the song that you hear
If I can but make the words awake the feeling, what a reason for waiting and dreaming of dreams
So here's hoping you've faith in impossible schemes
That are born in the sigh of the wind blowing by
While the dimming light brings, the end to a night of loving
"For A Thousand Mothers"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson
Stand Up (1969); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Carnegie Hall 1970 (1993); Stand Up Remastered (2001); Stand Up: The Collector's Edition (2010); Stand Up: The Elevated Edition (2016);
Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)
Bootlegs: Midnight In Chicago (Live 1970) (2021); Live At The Newport Pop Festival 1969 (2021); At The Turn of A Page (2023);
Live In Switzerland 2005 (2023); Boston Tea Party (2024)
Did you hear mother saying I'm wrong but I know I'm right?
Did you hear father calling my name into the night?
Saying I'll never be what I am now, telling me I'll never find what I've already found
It was they who were wrong and for them here's a song
Did you hear baby, come back and tell you the things he's seen?
Did it surprise you to be picked up at eight in a limousine?
Doing the things he's accustomed to do, which at one time it seemed like a dream
Now it's true and unknowing, you made it all happen this way