The Rattlesnake Trail Lyrics - Rock Island - Jethro Tull

Got a hair shirt round my shoulder. Got a cold stew in my spoon. 

And I'm falling on my head, lifting feet of lead --- 

now it's got me baying at the moon. 

Well, there's a race on for tomorrow. I'm stretching out 

for what might have been. 

Going to come out from the night, got my second sight --- 

play rough --- you know what I mean. 

I'm going for the kill. I'm going tooth and nail 

up that dusty hill --- on the rattlesnake trail. 

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Got the law laid down to the left of me. Got the real world to the right. 

Heading up through the middle with my cat and my fiddle --- 

yeah, looking for a fight. 

Going to ride hard in bandit country --- on the blind side of the bend. 

Keep my nose to the wind while the rabbit's skinned --- 

bed down at the journey's end. (Be a rattlesnake.) 

I'm going for the kill. I'm going tooth and nail 

up that dusty hill --- on the rattlesnake trail. 

The rattlesnake trail. 

I'm going on the rattlesnake trail. 

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Going to be with wolves in winter --- run in angry packs by day. 

But when you give a dog a bone, he has to be alone --- 

growl, keep the other dogs away. 

See that thin moon on the mountain. See that cold star in the sky. 

Going to bring them down --- shake them to the ground --- 

put that apple in the pie. (Be a rattlesnake.) 

I'm going for the kill. I'm going tooth and nail 

up that dusty hill --- on the rattlesnake trail.