Queen And Country - Jethro Tull

The wind is on the river and the tide has turned too late

So we’re sailing for another shore where some other ladies wait

To throw us silken whispers: catch us by the anchor chains

But we all laugh so politely and we sail on just the same

For Queen and Country in the long dying day

And it’s been this way for five long years, since we signed our souls away

We bring back gold and ivory;

rings of diamonds;

strings of pearls

Make presents to the government so they can have their social whirl

With Queen and Country in the long dying day

And it’s been this way for five long years since we signed our souls away

They build schools and they build factories with the spoils of battles won

And we remain their pretty sailor boys hold our heads up to the gun

Of Queen and Country in the long dying day

And it’s been this way for five long years since we signed our souls away

To Queen and Country in the long dying day

And it’s been this way for five long years since we signed our souls away