JETHRO TULL


Stand Up

(1969)



1. A New Day Yesterday 4'11
2. Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square 2'12
3. Bourée 3'47
4. Back To The Family 3'54
5. Look Into The Sun 4'23
6. Nothing Is Easy 4'27
7. Fat Man 2'52
8. We Used To Know 4'03
9. Reasons For Waiting 4'07
10. For A Thousand Mothers 4'22

Bonus Tracks

11. Living In The Past 3'24
12. Driving Song 2'45
13. Sweet Dream 4'05
14. 17 3'07

Total Time: 51:39


REMASTERED ALBUM SLEEVENOTES
Following the blues-based first TULL album, This Was in 1968, the varied influences of my youth and teenage years came to the fore in Stand Up. Elements of Jazz, Blues, Classical, Folk and Ethnic music forms had been bubbling up in my music writing since the summer of '68 when Tull had begun to achieve popularity on a meaningful scale. The release and polite commercial success of This Was spurred me on to work on the more diverse forms in which I was passionately interested. Martin Barre had replaced former guitarist Mick Abrahams with whom some of my new songs didn't really click, and quickly got down to the task of developing his less restricted guitar style to complement the varied musical notions which we recorded in the early months of '69. Still one of my all-time favourite TULL albums, Stand Up has come to represent, for me anyway, the early fruition of my musical ambitions and provides many great live performance songs and tunes in our concert set today. Clive and Glenn were sympathetic the change in our musical style and together with the new and slightly nervous Martin, created the studio ambience that shaped these enjoyable recording sessions. Having fallen from favour at John Peel's BBC Radio show, we were worried that our fortunes might rapidly diminish, especially in the light of our lengthy visits to the USA Spring and Summer '69, but it was Joe Cocker, over breakfast in Loews Midtown Manhattan Hotel coffee shop who informed me that Stand Up had immediately gone in to the charts at number one back home in the UK.
This was a great start to our careers in the USA and REPRISE / WARNER Bros, began to take us seriously as new contenders for the US charts. LED ZEPPELIN kindly invited us to open ' for them on their first arena tour later that year and the Stand Up material was given a good workout to thousands of potential fans across the states. We supported the MC5, Blood Sweat And Tears, Grand Funk i Railroad and many other innovative and exiting acts that year, but it was the Zeps who showed us the way and so to them I really must dedicate this remastered Stand Up, complete with the addition of some of the other songs which were recorded around the same time. The perennial Living In The Past was recorded, part in New York and finished in LA, as the result of our manager Terry Ellis urging me to come up with a hit single for the UK during our absence in the USA that summer. Of course, I didn't really expect the song to be a hit since it was in an odd time signature (5/4) but somehow it caught the fancy of the UK audience and the BBC, so our survival in the UK was assured for a while at least. Driving Song was recorded in Los Angeles during a tour. 17 and Sweet Dream were taped at Morgan Studios, North London, where we recorded many of Tull's albums throughout the seventies. The woodcut design of the cover was the inspiration of Terry Ellis, our manager, and the original pop-up interior made for a lot of interest. A bit expensive to make as a record cover these days however. Oh, well .... I suppose you can't have everything .....

Ian Anderson, August, 2001.

  • Ian Anderson played Flute, Accoustic Guitar, Hammond Organ, Piano, Mandolin, Balalaika, Mouth Organ and Sang
  • Martin Lancelot Âàrrå played Electric Guitar and Flute on 'Jeffrey goes To Leicester Square' and 'Reasons For Waiting'
  • Glen Cornick played Bass Guitar
  • Clive Bunker played Drums and all manner of Percussion

    'Stand Up' was Produced by Terry Ellis and Ian Anderson for CHRYSALIS'Productions ana.....er, well yes! It really has turned out nicely.
    Some songs for you. They were composed by Ian Anderson and are published by Chrvsalis Music except track 3 published by Salamander & Son Music Ltd. Tracks 1 to 10 were recorded in Morgan Studio with engineer Andy Johns.
    Strings on 'Reasons For Waiting' were Arranged and Conducted by David Palmer
    The Cover was based on ideas from Terry Ellis and John Williams and printed from woodcuts by New York graphic artist Jimmy Grashow.
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    All Songs Written by Ian Anderson



    1. A New Day Yesterday

      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.

    2. Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square

      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.

    3. Bourée

      (Instrumental)

    4. Back To The Family

      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.

    5. Look Into The Sun

      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.

    6. Nothing Is Easy

      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.

    7. Fat Man

      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.

    8. We Used To Know

      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.

    9. Reasons For Waiting

      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.
      Me 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.

    10. For A Thousand Mothers

      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.

      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.

    11. Living In The Past

      Happy and I'm smiling,
      walk a mile to drink your water.
      You know I'd love to love you,
      and above you there's no other.
      We'll go walking out
      while others shout of war's disaster.
      Oh, we won't give in,
      let's go living in the past.

      Once I used to join in
      every boy and girl was my friend.
      Now there's revolution, but they don't know
      what they're fighting.
      Let us close out eyes;
      outside their lives go on much faster.
      Oh, we won't give in,
      we'll keep living in the past.

    12. Driving Song

      Will they ever stop drivin' me?
      Have they ever taken time to see
      That I need some rest
      if I'm to do my best?


      Can I please stop workin' so hard?
      They just tell me gotta close it hard.
      Got to think of my health.
      Can I be by myself?

      Oh, they tell me I'll be home someday.
      Well I doubt it if I continue this way,
      `cause this hard life I've led
      is makin' me dead.

    13. Sweet Dream

      You'll hear me calling in your sweet dream,
      can't hear your daddy's warning cry.
      You're going back to be all the things you want to be,
      while in sweet dreams you softly sigh.

      You hear my voice is calling
      to be mine again,
      live the rest of your life in a day.
      Get out and get what you can
      while your mummy's at home a-sleeping.
      No time to understand
      `cause they lost what they thought they were keeping.

      No one can see us in your sweet dream.
      don't hear you leave to start the car.
      All wrapped up tightly in the coat you borrowed from me,
      your place of resting is not far.

      You'll hear my voice is calling
      to be mine again,
      live the rest of your life in a day.
      Get out and get what you can
      While your mummy's at home a-sleeping.
      No time to understand,
      `cause they lost what they thought they were keeping.

    14. 17


      I remember when we had a lot of things to do ---
      impressed by all the words we read
      and the heroes that we knew.
      Climb on your your dream --- a dream of our own making
      to find a place that we could later lose
      to whatever time would bring.

      We were seventeen and the cakeman was affecting you ---
      moving you to greater things (in a lesser way)
      you had to prove.
      The clock struck summertime. You were going round in circles now.
      Wishing you were seventeen. At twenty-one, it was a long time gone.
      And now here you are. You're locked in your own excuse.
      The circle's getting smaller every day.
      You're busy planning the next fifty years.
      So stay the way you are and keep your head down to the same old ground.
      Just paint your picture boy until you find
      a closed circle's better than an open line.

      Yes stay the way you are. I got a circle that's the same as yours.
      It may be bigger, but I've more to lose.
      Who is the luckier man --- me or you?