Jethro Tull - Witch's Promise Lyrics
Lend me your ear while I call you a fool.
You were kissed by a witch one night in the wood,
and later insisted your feelings were true.
The witch's promise was coming,
believing he listened while laughing you flew.
Leaves falling red, yellow, brown, all are the same,
and the love you have found lay outside in the rain.
Washed clean by the water but nursing its pain.
The witch's promise was coming, and you're looking
elsewhere for your own selfish gain.
Keep looking, keep looking for somewhere to be,
well, you're wasting your time, they're not stupid like he is.
Meanwhile leaves are still falling, you're too blind to see.
He was willing to give to you, you didn't care.
You're waiting for more but you've already had your share.
The witch's promise is turning, so don't you wait up
for him, he's going to be late.
Other Lyrics by Artist
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Jethro Tull Witch's Promise Comments
So funny to watch people trying to dance to this music from these old shows. What's up with Ian's affected drunk/high act?
Ian always known as drug free and just usual citizen drinking level. Just showmanship.
My favourite track.
Gênio da música.
Ian Anderson- Such a talent, but such a self-absorbed callous human.
I LOVE how crazy and genious he looks. He isn't from this world....
Ian Anderson reminds me of a Sprite or Leprcon
what a great melody!
If Robin Hood and his band were to form a Rock n Roll band
incredibly good
This song could have been played at Stonehenge 4000 years ago...
This Guy likes to Display His Tongue!.
ULTIMATE JETHRO TULL
londobn band check
Yes, you can tell he is SUPER smart! LOVE him!
The dancers 🤣🤣🤣🤣
He's had his teeth done since this too lol
All mimed
@KamiKazzz
A genius is absolutely correct.
and now children, that is what you call talent... sorry there is no more, but they're fresh out...
I detest miming musical performance. Such an insult to the audience.
Always glad to see Ian Anderson perform, even though he's lip syncing but, the people cannot dance to safe their lives.
he's a riot, love that bass.
I can smell him from here.
I love their music but Ian’s mugging gets old. I’d rather just listen.
Whether you like this or not you can not deny they are an incredibly talented band. Ian has the most amazing presence in his voice. I was 5 yrs when this came out... wish I had seen them live at the Isle of Wight
No Ian Anderson never indulged in drugs, his behavior is the result of GENIUS
Ian being Ian, which is being ultra-annoying
Ian is kind of a mix of a medieval trovateur and kurt cobain....
I adore this song! It always makes me think of the main in character in one of my books, fooled by a witch one day in the woods --poor young fellow!
Rare but great use of mellotron in a Jethro Tull song.
I am a Healing Fier Mead
Till this day possibly other than the nest band ive ever heard
He is high as fuck, lol. Wonder what he was on. Probably easier to list what he wasn't on. 😂🤣 Those were the days when everyone was drugged out but it produced the best music ever. Sacrifices.
I am a Healer!!!???
It's hard to believe this guy never used drugs 😂😂
"Keep looking, keep looking for somewhere to be."
Ok Ian, maybe don't look THAT hard.
con el respeto que merecen las esporas que dieron vida a esta seta la voy a comer
This was alternitive music long before the term was even thought off
Still an amazing song 49 year later
Amazing. And Ian was a mere stripling of 22 here. What a creative genius.
is he gurning his face off haha?
What a times I had getting stoned whilst listening to Jethro Tull when I was in my teens and thirties.
Jethro Tull Rocks!!! I have all their albums and can't get enough their early stuff is the best in my opinion it's just such a bad ass band
.I applaud Ian Anderson for investing his money in his home country Scotland. He brought great music to many- me included! CH
Is that what he did? Interesting.Here's a great quote - 'There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income – I don't want too see too much taken off the top line. 'https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/fameandfortune/6102159/Fame-and-Fortune-Jethro-Tulls-Ian-Anderson.html
Ian Anderson was such a theatrical performer. He had his style and it was perfect. His flute defined the band, aside from their fantastic songwriting! Brilliance
Drummer: "wonder what I'll have for tea tonight.."
What does JETHRO TULL mean?
Our agent, who had studied History at college, came up with the name Jethro Tull (an eighteenth century English agricultural pioneer who invented the seed drill). That was the band name during the week in which London's famous Marquee Club offered us the Thursday night residency. So it stuck.
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A seed drill is a device that sows the seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil and burying them to a specific depth. This ensures that seeds will be distributed evenly. The seed drill sows the seeds at the proper seeding rate and depth, ensuring that the seeds are covered by soil.
He invented the horse driven plow. Thats what their album Heavy Horses references too
almost all their songs come from Jethro Tull quotes, poems, etc... https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/jethro-tull-6434.php?fbclid=IwAR1GMd5PgodOvMeuBeWdk_nrysaTIlDyc8JfyqhJqLCfNVzulA9B72rcFGE
@Lonnie O Thx. I didn't know that.
There was more to Jethro Tull than the seed drill
Students who are interested should do some research
When I was in my teen's (a very long time ago) I was told that Jethro Till invented the manure spreader. I suppose I'll have to look this up now.
A genius I tell you!
Pure Anglo Saxon...Celtic old Britons....this song would have been celebrated, at Stonehenge gatherings!!!
Это же инглиш рок?)
Only Mick Fleetwood can compare to Ian Anderson with those outrageous facial expressions!😜
You are so right, HitMeWithIt!
is it possible to go back in time and film this with our HD Cameras of toda..!? and then see if it looks the same? or is it really just the point of technology..or had these times beautiful Auras..!?
what an awesome song and performance by Ian Anderson and his flute .He's like a character out of the Crusades of the 11th century
All these pseudo mimed performances are a missed opportunity looking back. These legends are no more & instead of hearing nuances from live arrangements, we have some nonse out the back, pressing 'play'.
The same Corporation that re-recorded over hundreds of (now lost) episodes to save money when they were in receipt of millions of license fees.
The same Corporation that lied to local residents about radiation contamination around Windscale.
The same BBC that bang on doors, when it is not the law. That hides pedophilic behavior, & sacks anyone who refuses to claim outrageous expenses - marking them with crime & guilt from day one.
#BOYCOTTTHEBBC
2:00 a beautiful moment captured across multiple parallel universes
The guitar player looks like Ronnie Van Zandt
The crazy man
Bastard son of Catweazle, who left him as a baby to be brought up by wolves in Epping Forest. Ended up living in a lightning charred 400 year old oak tree just over the hill from an abandoned chalk quarry off the B1563 near Steeple Bumpstead..
Im am too drunk to comment.
You could imagine this song, and Jethro Tull, being the headliner, at Stonehenge 3,000 years ago!!!
Long life to England!!
One of the most important songs of all my life
Fuckin great
It's been brings back memorys
I want Ian's manic energy
this is such a good performance.....
Bread crumbs to her cage as she still persists holding to no end.
A few years ago me and my girlfriend holidayed in Scotland at a place called Spittle of Glenshee.There we met a real laird who was also a talented musician.We had a great time.
Sadly we learned all the buildings have been destroyed by fire.
But at least we still have the CDs and the memories!CH
Ian looks like a Medieval bard
The second best JT song , right after Living in the Past.
Pagan rock n roll
The crazy man
Quinten tarantino on drums
And you're looking elsewhere for your own selfish gain!
A song from the magic celtic's woods
I'll have what he's been on
It would be great to live in a time where something so surprising and avant-garde could be broadcast into millions of British homes simultaneously while families sat together watching the black and white tv. As Lemmy said, if you could go back to the 70s, you wouldn’t come back here.
El propio Fauno
A crazy man
BBC was great before
He was like this when I saw him at the Liverpool Empire on War Child tour c. 75. One of the best gigs I’ve been to. Did not disappoint. So many really exciting highlights, too numerous to mention, well just the one as it’s relevant. Lots of dry ice ‘smoke’ blowing about on the stage at the start. Martin Barre, wearing what seemed to be a long silk oriental gown appeared churning out a heart-stoppingly heavy riff, organ riff built, drumming commenced then Ian Anderson leapt through the smoke seemingly about 10’ up in the air, flute in hand, and hit the stage bang on the beat of....can’t remember the song 😬 but it was outstanding. Nothing IA did or does was accidental or uncalculated. A master showman, musician and songwriter.
HOLLLLLLLY FUCK! Never saw Anderson in the day, damn.
Jethro Tull doesn't sing one good song, they are ALL Shit and he is a weirdo.
Looked like he escaped the psychward
This great song is as old as me BLIMEY!!!!
I am now 48 years old.
Don't songs aged ya?
Discuss
@Shelly Slavek y'ngins? ???!!!!
@Shelly Slavek Please explain.Would very much like to discuss this with you further.
Angela Hope young ones... I meant it seems that people today seem to make ugly, hateful comments but can’t seem to ... talk
I personally don’t think songs age. If it meant something in the ‘70s it still means something in the ( what, 20 teens)
What does “it “ mean? Well that’s up to the person listening. And thank you for an actual discussion
@Shelly Slavek Great to hear from ye.
You ain't wrong.My point was that the memory of my late Father is linked to this song and I'm a child of the 70's and everytime I hear this song it takes me back to when my Da would play this through a reel to reel.
I believe that certain songs to some people make them think
"Blimey I didn't realise how old that song was."
My Daughter who is now 22 now looks back in horror at Sclub7 who she loved when she was a kid.
I used to love and if I'm honest still do Gene Pitney to which she replied "Who????"
Could you even begin to imagine bands like this making it now? not a chance.....All we seem to be fed now is cheap, anodyne dross! Thank you very much Simon Cowell - thank you so bloody much, for nothing.
esto tambien es lip sync
Found myself whistling this gold nugget in the shower from deep within my memory and just had to look it up. Thankyou brain, thankyou YouTube, thankyou Ian, thankyou life.
Love his mimics ❣
listened to this 100s of times
I absolutely agree that Ian Anderson is a genius. His music is live and exceptionally unique with a high class style.
This ain't no hip hop rap crap.
I love this song.
cocaine is a helluva drug
Super legal )
These top of the pop's songs are mimed by the bands while a record of the song is playing in the studio. We had the same format here in Australia it was called Count Down.
Grają w sobotę w pięknym mieście Pruszkowie zobaczymy
English pastoral genius