Strip Cartoon - Jethro Tull

Fish and chips, sandpaper lips and a rainy pavement

Soho lights, another night --- thinking of you

Black cat, sat on a wall, winks at me darkly

Suggesting ways and means that I might win a smile ---

As you leave the place where you work until 12.30

And the policemen nods as you pass along his beat

Sweaty feet, troubled brow -- we’re all in the same game, lady

Life’s no bowl of cherries --- it’s a black and white strip cartoon

I’ve been warned that you and your friends are crazy

As from your hearts you bare your parts to the gentlemen

Who, while they drool, trying to keep cool, spill their Scotch and water

But I’m not that way, I must say --- I’d much prefer to see you in your

texturised rubber rainwear around 12.30

Come and play shades of grey in my black and white strip cartoon

Strip cartoon is all I’m after

Strip cartoon is all I crave ---

So come to my place around 12.30

'cos I’m a leading politician at a dangerous age