Written by Ian Anderson after returning to London from the North (via Preston), where he had visited his father in the hospital. He sadly wonders whether the nurses are treating his father as well as they should, and whether they are just being nice to him because he’s famous.
[Verse]
On Preston platform
Do your soft shoe shuffle dance
Brush away the cigarette ash
That's falling down your pants
And then you sadly wonder
Does the nurse treat your old man
The way she should?
She made you tea
Asked for your autograph
What a laugh
Cheap Day Return was written by Ian Anderson.
Cheap Day Return was produced by Terry Ellis & Ian Anderson.
Jethro Tull released Cheap Day Return on Fri Mar 19 1971.