Saturation
By Ian Anderson from 20 Years of Jethro Tull. Flawed Gems And The
Other Side Of Tull, also bonus track on Warchild remaster.
Tablature by Peter Dawson


  Introduction
  Riff 1 x2
    Am    C       G  Am   C          Am    C       G  Am   C
  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------5---------------5-------|--------5-----------------------||
||------5-5-----5-5-7---7-5---7~~~|------5-5-----5-5-7-------------||
||----7---------------------------|----7-------------------3~~~----||
||--5-----------------------------|--5-------------------5---------||



  Riff 2 x2
  Em      G       D  Em   G        Em      G       D  Em   G
  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||----------------------------4*--|--------------------------------||
||------0-5--------------(5)7*----|------0-5---------------5~~~~---||
||--2p2-0-5-----5-5-7---7-5--(7)~~|--2p2-0-5-----5-5-7---7-5~~~~---||
||0-------------5-5-7---7----(7)~~|0-------------5-5-7---7---------||
                                                                They
* play second time & omit notes in brackets


 Verse
 Am              C                D
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|--------------------------------|------------------------|
|--------------------------------|------------------------|
|--------------------------------|------------------------|
|2-------2-------10------10------|7-----7-7---------------|
|0-------0-------8-------8-------|5-----5-5---------3---5-|
|--------------------------------|------------------------|
left me leaving my house on fire me running round
                                                 got out thru
                                                     the win-



 Riff 1
   Am    C       G  Am   C          Am    C       G  Am   C
 |   |   |   |   |   |    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    |   |   
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------5---------------5-------|--------5-----------------------|
|------5-5-----5-5-7---7-5---7~~~|------5-5-----5-5-7-------------|
|----7---------------------------|----7-------------------3~~~----|
|--5-----------------------------|--5-------------------5---------|
-dow


 Riff 2
 Em      G       D  Em   G        Em      G       D  Em   G
|   |   |   |   |   |    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    |   |    
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|------0-5---------------5-------|------0-5---------------5~~~----|
|--2p2-0-5-----5-5-7---7-5---7~~~|--2p2-0-5-----5-5-7---7-5~~~----|
|0-------------5-5-7---7-----7~~~|0-------------5-5-7---7---------|
 While clinging to the            of fun;  I'll jump to it gladly
     skirts of fate was not my idea



Riff 3 (bass run also added)
 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    
|----------------3-------5---6-7-|----------------3-------5---6---|
|----0-2-3---345---5-7-8---8-----|----0-2-3---345---5-7-8---8-----|
|--0-----------------------------|--0---------------------------7-|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|------0-1-2-1-0---------57------|------0-1-2-1-0---------57------|
|--0-3-----------3---0-2---3---3-|--0-3-----------3~~-2-3---3---3-|



  Riff 4                           |4.
  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x3  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    
||--------------------------------||--------------------------------||
||345-1---0-----------------------||345-1---0-----------------------||
||------2----*234-2-------02202~~~||------2----*234-2-------02202~~~||
||--------------------2-----------||--------------------2-----------||
||0---0---2---0---0---------------||0---0---2---0---0-------------0-||
||--------------------------------||--------------------------------||
  * triplets


Riff 5
                 C   Am                           C   Am
 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|------------------------5-------|------------------------5-------|
|------0-1-2-1-0---------5-7-7~~~|------0-1-2-1-0---------5-7-7~~~|
|--0-3-----------107-7-----------|--0-3-----------107-7-----------|
|----------------8/5-5-----------|----------------8/5-5-----------|
   The town was filled with.          Came to my senses just too late
               smoke and hate



                 C   Am                           C   Am
 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|------------------------5-------|------------------------5-------|
|------0-1-2-1-0---------5-7-7~~~|------0-1-2-1-0---------5-7-7~~~|
|--0-3-----------107-7-----------|--0-3-----------107-7-----------|
|----------------8/5-5-----------|----------------8/5-5---------3-|
 to realize that all I ever owned was borrowed.
                                   I thanked them for having shown




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me that nothing.
  ever really
    belongs to anyone.



Verse 2
They burned my books and they broke my car,
and gave the dog to a man who used him for breeding.
They felled my trees and they tramped flowers
and threw the kitten into my new pool.
The same things done to other men had made them run away from the city.
This being the case, I joined them there and breathing air
spent the night with these new friends.


The town was filled with smoke and hate.
Came to my senses just too late
to realize that all I ever owned
was borrowed. I thanked them for having shown
me that nothing ever really belongs to anyone.