Minstrel In The Gallery Uke tab by Jethro Tull

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    The minstrel in the gallery
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looked down upon the smiling faces.
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He met the gazes - observed the spaces 
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between the old men's cackle.
      
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He brewed a song of love and hatred 

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oblique suggestions and he waited.

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  He polarized the pumpkin eaters  

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  static-humming panel-beaters  

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  freshly day-glow'd factory cheaters 

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  (salaried and collar-scrubbing).

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  He titillated men-of-action  

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belly warming, hands still rubbing 

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on the parts they never mention.

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  He pacified the nappy-suffering, 

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infant-bleating one-line   jokers - 

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T.V. documentary makers 

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(overfed and undertakers)

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Sunday paper backgammon players 

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family-scarred and women-haters.

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Then he called the band down to the the stage 

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and he looked at all

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the friends     he'd made.