Up The Pool Guitar Tab

Living In The Past Tabs:

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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 20:05:04 +0100 (CET)
From: Peter Eybert 
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: CRD: Up The Pool by Jethro Tull

Up the Pool 

written by Ian Anderson
performed by Jethro Tull
from "Living in the past", 1971
transcribed by Peter Eybert 


[Capo 7]

Dm7    D   C G  D
		
    D                        A4               A		
I'm going up the 'Pool, from down the smoke below
   D                             A4            A
to taste me mum's jam Sarnis and see our Aunty Flo,
    Bm               A4 A G      Bm            A4  A G
The candy floss salesman watches ladies in the sand
     C              G           Bb                      C
down for freaky weekends in the hope that they'll be meeting
          D     C G Dm7     D
Mr. Universe.

    D                        A4            A
The iron tower smiles down upon the silver sea
     D                               A4               A
and along the golden mile they'll be swigging mugs of tea.
    Bm          A4 A G       Bm               A4 A G
The politicians there who've come to take the air
      C              G                Bb              C
while posing for the daily press will look around and blame the mess
   D            C G Dm7    D
on Edward Pier.

            D                   C               G              D
There'll be buckets, spades and bingo, cockles, muscels, rainy days
Bb                C           D         G6
seaweed and sand-castles, icy waves.
D                   C                    G               D
Deck-chairs, rubber dinghies, old vests, braces dangling down,
  Bb                  C             D
a sun-tanned stranded starfish in a daze.


We're going up the 'Pool from down the Smoke below

to taste me mum's jam Sarnis and see our Aunty Flo,

The candy floss salesman watches ladies in the sand

down for freaky weekends in the hope that they'll be meeting

Mr. Universe.

    D       C G    D       C G    D   Am
Oh, Blackpool, oh, Blackpool.


A4 = Asus4 = x02230

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Klint Average	#1 by Klint flowers at Feb 19, 1973 at 5:20 AM EST
	Blackpool was Ian Anderson's childhood home. It is also a seaside resort as described in the song, but Londoners would not normally visit it. In the song, Anderson is on a journey from his base in London ("the Smoke") to visit his mother and describing Blackpool as he expects to find it. Candyfloss = cotton candy. The Iron Tower is the famous Blackpool Tower, which was inspired by the Eiffel Tower. The Golden Mile is a stretch of the promenade (sea-front road) with entertainment establishments covered in colorful flashing lights. Blackpool is frequently a venue for political conferences. I take Edward Bear to refer to Edward Heath, the then Prime Minister, but it might just mean the politicians are blaming anyone but themselves. Anyway, it rhymes. 1

No Picture Sam Wanna Be	#2 by Sam Kearley at Feb 13, 1994 at 4:40 PM EST
	Blackpool was a famous seaside vacation spot for Londoners around the time that Anderson wrote these lyrics. Thus the lyric "going up the pool, from down the smoke(london) below". The Iron Tower was basically a lighthouse and politicians are mentioned because they tended to frequent the vacation spot as well... Edward Bear refers to a politician that took a lot of criticism around Andersons time.