Crew Nights Lyrics - Nightcap - Jethro Tull

Tear it down in double quick time 

To get the eighth truck shifted 'bout midnight 

The locker rooms are empty but the (Strobo Tickers?)(strobe boats?) 

still spin with their pitching lights 

And someone with a yellow pass 

Gives out precise directions as to where and when 

And here am I with a drumstick, 

While young girls set to rendezvous, and be recognized again 

Tomorrow is an off-day, 

Be in Baltimore by Thursday is the only law. 

There's a suite down at the hotel 

Reserved for making merry with connecting doors. 

The lighting man's already improvised a bar, 

And printed invitations to the ball. 

Off duty cops line corridors wearing Tull (two?) T-shirts proudly 

on the band's (...) wall 

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Crew nights, no flashlights or folding knives, 

Best boots and road suits and nine lives. 

Feeling that it might be wrong to 

Temporarily belong to the P.A. man (men?) 

Some angel from the midwest is regretting being 

Undressed with no suntan 

His polaroid is snapping 

The head carpenter is rapping on 

The gates of dawn 

Sitting lonely with a warm beer 

The girl with dental braces wishes that she hadn't gone. 

Crew nights, no bar fights or (feeders?) (veeders?) wives 

Thin walls and late (blade?) calls and nine lives. 

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(Ken Stitzel writes: Still no clue on the first line, but I think 

late calls is definitely correct for the second line. It makes 

sense from a stagehand terminology perspective. I know that it 

sounds like there's a b sound in there, but I think it's just a 

minor flaw in Ian's diction. (It's really tough to sing clearly, 

especially in rock music.)) 

Crew nights, no flashlights or folding knives, 

Best boots and road suits and nine lives.