Lick Your Fingers Clean by Jethro Tull
Lick Your Fingers Clean by Jethro Tull

Lick Your Fingers Clean

Jethro Tull * Track #26 On 20 Years of Jethro Tull

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Album 20 Years of Jethro Tull

Lick Your Fingers Clean by Jethro Tull

Performed by
Jethro Tull
Produced by
Terry Ellis & Ian Anderson
Writed by
Ian Anderson
About

The song is about a person’s final judgment, when they account to their maker for how they lived their life.

It was not originally included on the Aqualung album, but was intended as a non-album single. Never released, it was slightly re-written for the War Child album, under the name “Two Fingers...

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Lick Your Fingers Clean Lyrics

I'll see you at the weighing in
When your life's sum-total's made
And you set your wealth in godly deeds
Against the sins you've laid

So place your final burden
On your hard-pressed next of kin
Send the chamber pot back down the line
To be filled up again

Take your mind off your election
And try to get it straight
And don't pretend perfection
You'll be crucified too late

And he'll say "you really should make the deal"
As he offers round the hat
Well, you'd better lick your fingers clean
I'll thank you all for that

And as you join the good ship earth
And you mingle with the dust
Be sure to leave your underpants
With someone you can trust

And the hard-headed social worker
Who bathes his hands in blood
Will welcome you with arms held high
And cover you with mud

And he'll say "you really should make the deal"
As he offers round the hat
Well, you'd better lick your fingers clean
Well, I'll thank you all for that

Lick Your Fingers Clean Q&A

Who wrote Lick Your Fingers Clean's ?

Lick Your Fingers Clean was written by Ian Anderson.

Who produced Lick Your Fingers Clean's ?

Lick Your Fingers Clean was produced by Terry Ellis & Ian Anderson.

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