Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for November 15, 2022

Why, Shirley, would you prefer Frank Zappa?

Maybe Kiss. Always good for a prelude to Dream Time.

Good idea, I will play Jethro Tull to bget ready for sleep tonight.

“But, Dear – it’s The Christmas Album!"

You would prefer “Metallica”?

“Sorry dear. I forgot how it gets you all excited. I’ll put something else on so you can calm down and get to sleep.”

“Stand Up” and change the LP.

Aqualung

But I’ll Benefit from the music.

Ah, to be thick as a brick

Why not? He’s Living In The Past

Sounds like my fraternity in the 70’s. Although he smoked, Steven didn’t smoke a tobacco pipe back then, he smoked a water pipe.

Steven is going to wake up with Locomotive Breath.

Can you cook, can you sew, well I don’t want to know, that’s not what it takes to live on the inside to make the time go.

There’s always time for a little Bungle in the Jungle.

It’s always time for Tull. You’re never too old for rock and roll.

“Why not? Is there a toll on Tull?”

Is it not Tuesday? Yes, it has to be Jethro, there can be no other.

You poor old sod

Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.

It’s late. How about some Brahms’s?

Black ’Sabbath’s Paranoid wakes me every morning. Years ago, it was War Pigs, but my men started to worry about me, so I toned it down. My grandkids now worry about me.

It does seem a little late for epic flute.

I have so many questions. AM or PM? Is Tull too heavy, or too light? What’s in the pipe? And is that a bong behind the lamp?

Rock n roll never forgets!

’the train it won’t stop rollin, it couldn’t slow down’

Stephan…better take the hint!!!

Boring!

Yes, dear. It must!

Like a few other commenters, I, too, thought of this one right off the bat… Starts out quite quietly and somewhat “liltey”… Then…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHTkDWq1Sdg

I love Jethro Tull, but I don’t get the joke.

He hears the silence howling

Catches angels as they fall

And the all-time winner

Has got him by the balls

Oh, he picks up Gideons bible

Open at page one

I think God he stole the handle

And the train it won’t stop going

No way to slow down

It is a little late for prancing flautists.