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Cat. No: EMTV 30/CDP7 46033 2. Release Date: 2 Nov 1981 (UK) 3 Nov 1981 (USA). Cover Concept: Freddie Mercury. Highest Chart Pos: 1 (UK) 14 (USA). Weeks on Chart: 529 (UK) 26 (USA). Award Status: Eleven times Platinum (UK) Platinum (USA).
 
 
 
 

Bohemian Rhapsody

(Freddie Mercury)

Is this the real life

Is this just fantasy

Caught in a landslide

No escape from reality

Open your eyes

Look up to the skies and see

I'm just a poor boy,I need no sympathy

Because I'm easy come,easy go,

A little high,little low,

Anyway the wind blows,doesn't really matter to me,

To me

Mama,just killed a man,

Put a gun against his head,

Pulled my trigger,now he's dead,

Mama,life had just begun,

But now I've gone and thrown it all away

Mama ooo,

Didn't mean to make you cry

If I'm not back again this time tomorrow

Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters

Too late,my time has come,

Sends shivers down my spine

Body's aching all the time,

Goodbye everybody-I've got to go

Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth

Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)

I don't want to die,

I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man,

Scaramouche,scaramouche will you do the Fandango

Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me

Galileo,Galileo,

Galileo Galileo

Galileo figaro-Magnifico

But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me

He's just a poor boy from a poor family

Spare him his life from this monstrosity

Easy come easy go-,will you let me go

Bismillah! No-,we will not let you go-let him go

Bismillah! We will not let you go-let him go

Bismillah! We will not let you go-let me go

Will not let you go-let me go

Will not let you go let me go

No,no,no,no,no,no,no

Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go

Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye

So you think you can love me and leave me to die

Oh baby-Can't do this to me baby

Just gotta get out-just gotta get right outta here

Nothing really matters,

Anyone can see,

Nothing really matters-,nothing really matters to me,

Any way the wind blows....

 
 

Another One Bites The Dust

(John Deacon)

Steve walks warily down the street

With his brim pulled way down low

Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet

Machine guns ready to go

Are you ready hey are you ready for this?

Are you hanging on the edge of your seat?

Out of the doorway the bullets rip

To the sound of the beat yeah

Another one bites the dust

Another one bites the dust

And another one gone and another one gone

Another one bites the dust

Hey I'm gonna get you too

Another one bites the dust

How do you think I'm going to get along

Without you when you're gone

You took me for everything that I had

And kicked me out on my own

Are you happy are you satisfied?

How long can you stand the heat

Out of the doorway the bullets rip

To the sound of the beat look out

Another one bites the dust

Another one bites the dust

And another one gone and another one gone

Another one bites the dust

Hey I'm gonna get you too

Another one bites the dust

Hey

Oh take it - Bite the dust bite the dust

Hey Another one bites the dust

Another one bites the dust ow

Another one bites the dust he he

Another one bites the dust haaaa

Ooh shoot out

There are plenty of ways that you can hurt a man

And bring him to the ground

You can beat him

You can cheat him

You can treat him bad and leave him

When he's down

But I'm ready yes I'm ready for you

I'm standing on my own two feet

Out of the doorway the bullets rip

Repeating to the sound of the beat

Another one bites the dust

Another one bites the dust

And another one gone and another one gone

Another one bites the dust yeah

Hey I'm gonna get you too

Another one bites the dust

Shoot out

 
 

Killer Queen

(Freddie Mercury)

She keeps Moet and Chandon in her pretty cabinet

'Let them eat cake' she says

Just like Marie Antoinette

A built in remedy for Khrushchev and Kennedy

And anytime an invitation you can decline

Caviar and cigarettes well versed in etiquette

Extr'ordinarily nice

She's a killer queen gunpowder gelatine

Dynamite with a lazer beam

Guaranteed to blow your mind

Recommended at the price

Insatiable an appetite wanna try?

To avoid complications

She never kept the same address

In conversation she spoke just like a baroness

Met a man from China went down to Geisha Minah

Then again incidentally if you're that way inclined (she's a killer queen)

Perfume came naturally from Paris (naturally)

For cars she couldn't care less

Fastidious and precise

She's a killer queen gunpowder gelatine

Dynamite with a lazer beam

Guaranteed to blow your mind

Recommended at the price

Insatiable an appetite wanna try?

Drop of a hat she's as willing as a playful as a pussy cat

Then momentarily out of action

Temporarily out of gas

To absolutely drive you wild - wild

She's out to get you

She's a killer queen gunpowder gelatine

Dynamite with a lazer beam

Guaranteed to blow your mind

Recommended at the price

Insatiable an appetite wanna try?

Wanna try

 
 

Fat Bottomed Girls

(Brian May)

Are you gonna take me home tonight

Ah down beside that red firelight

Are you gonna let it all hang out

Fat bottomed girls

You make the rockin' world go round

Hey I was just a skinny lad

Never knew no good from bad

But I knew life before I left my nursery

Left alone with big fat Fanny

She was such a naughty nanny

Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me

Hey hey!

I've been singing with my band

Across the wire across the land

I seen ev'ry blue eyed floozy on the way

But their beauty and their style

Went kind of smooth after a while

Take me to them dirty ladies every time

Oh won't you take me home tonight?

Oh down beside your red firelight

Oh and you give it all you got

Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Hey listen here

Now your mortgages and homes

I got stiffness in the bones

Ain't no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)

Oh but I still get my pleasure

Still got my greatest treasure

Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me

Now get this

Oh you gonna take me home tonight (please)

Oh down beside your red firelight

Oh you gonna let it all hang out

Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Get on your bikes and ride

Oooh yeah them fat bottomed girls

Fat bottomed girls

Yeah yeah yeah

Fat bottomed girls

Yes yes

 
 

Bicycle Race

(Freddie Mercury)

Bicycle bicycle bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride my bike

I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride it where I like

You say black I say white

You say bark I say bite

You say shark I say hey man

Jaws was never my scene

And I don't like Star Wars

You say Rolls I say Royce

You say God give me a choice

You say Lord I say Christ

I don't believe in Peter Pan

Frankenstein or Superman

All I wanna do is

Bicycle bicycle bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride my bike

I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride my

Bicycle races are coming your way

So forget all your duties oh yeah!

Fat bottomed girls

They'll be riding today

So look out for those beauties oh yeah

On your marks get set go

Bicycle race bicycle race bicycle race

Bicycle bicycle bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle

Bicycle bicycle bicycle bicycle

Bicycle race

You say coke I say caine

You say John I say Wayne

Hot dog I say cool it man

I don't wanna be the President of America

You say smile I say cheese

Cartier I say please

Income tax I say Jesus

I don't wanna be a candidate for

Vietnam or Watergate

Cos all I wanna do is

Bicycle bicycle bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride my bike

I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride it where I like

 
 

You're My Best Friend

(John Deacon)

Ooh you make me live

Whatever this world can give to me

It's you you're all I see

Ooo you make me live now honey

Ooo you make me live

Ooh you're the best friend that I ever had

I've been with you such a long time

You're my sunshine and I want you to know

That my feelings are true

I really love you

Oh you're my best friend

Ooo you make me live

Ooh I've been wandering round

But I still come back to you

In rain or shine

You've stood by me girl

I'm happy at home

You're my best friend

Ooo you make me live

Whenever this world is cruel to me

I got you to help me forgive

Ooo you make me live now honey

Ooo you make me live

You're the first one

When things turn out bad

You know I'll never be lonely

You're my only one

And I love the things

I really love the things that you do

You're my best friend

Ooo you make me live

I'm happy at home

You're my best friend

Oh you're my best friend

Ooo you make me live

You you're my best friend

 
 

Don't Stop Me Now

(Freddie Mercury)

Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time

I feel alive and the world turning inside out Yeah!

And floating around in ecstasy

So don't stop me now don't stop me

'Cause I'm having a good time having a good time

I'm a shooting star leaping through the sky

Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity

I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva

I'm gonna go go go

There's no stopping me

I'm burning through the sky Yeah!

Two hundred degrees

That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit

I'm trav'ling at the speed of light

I wanna make a supersonic man out of you

Don't stop me now I'm having such a good time

I'm having a ball don't stop me now

If you wanna have a good time just give me a call

Don't stop me now ('cause I'm havin' a good time)

Don't stop me now (yes I'm havin' a good time)

I don't want to stop at all

I'm a rocket ship on my way to Mars

On a collision course

I am a satellite I'm out of control

I am a sex machine ready to reload

Like an atom bomb about to

Oh oh oh oh oh explode

I'm burning through the sky Yeah!

Two hundred degrees

That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit

I'm trav'ling at the speed of light

I wanna make a supersonic woman of you

Don't stop me don't stop me

Don't stop me hey hey hey!

Don't stop me don't stop me ooh ooh ooh (I like it)

Don't stop me don't stop me

Have a good time good time

Don't stop me don't stop me Ah

I'm burning through the sky Yeah!

Two hundred degrees

That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit

I'm trav'ling at the speed of light

I wanna make a supersonic man out of you

Don't stop me now I'm having such a good time

I'm having a ball don't stop me now

If you wanna have a good time just give me a call

Don't stop me now ('cause I'm havin' a good time)

Don't stop me now (yes I'm havin' a good time)

I don't want to stop at all

 
 

Save Me

(Brian May)

It started off so well

They said we made a perfect pair

I clothed myself in your glory and your love

How I loved you

How I cried...

The years of care and loyalty

Were nothing but a sham it seems

The years belie we lived a lie

I love you till I die

Save me save me save me

I can't face this life alone

Save me save me save me...

I'm naked and I'm far from home

The slate will soon be clean

I'll erase the memories

To start again with somebody new

Was it all wasted

All that love?...

I hang my head and I advertise

A soul for sale or rent

I have no heart I'm cold inside

I have no real intent

Save me save me save me

I can't face this life alone

Save me save me save me...

I'm naked and I'm far from home

Each night I cry I still believe the lie

I love you till I die

Save me save me save me

Don't let me face my life alone

Save me save me ooh...

I'm naked and I'm far from home

 
 

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

(Freddie Mercury)

This thing called love I just can't handle it

This thing called love I must get round to it

I ain't ready

Crazy little thing called love

This thing (this thing) called love (called love)

It cries (like a baby)

In a cradle all night

It swings (woo woo)

It jives (woo woo)

It shakes all over like a jelly fish

I kinda like it

Crazy little thing called love

There goes my baby

She knows how to Rock'n'Roll

She drives my crazy

She gives me hot and cold fever

Then she leaves me in a cool cool sweat

I gotta be cool relax get hip!

Get on my track's

Take a back seat

Hitch hike

And take a long ride on my motor bike

Until I'm ready

Crazy little thing called love

I gotta be cool relax get hip!

Get on my track's

Take a back seat

Hitch hike

And take a long ride on my motor bike

Until I'm ready (ready Freddie)

Crazy little thing called love

This thing called love I just can't handle it

This thing called love I must get round to it

I ain't ready

Crazy little thing called love...

 
 

Somebody To Love

(Freddie Mercury)

Can anybody find be somebody to love?

Each morning I get up I die a little

Can barely stand on my feet

(Take a look at yourself)Take a look in the mirror and cry

Lord what you're doing to me

I have to spend all my years in believing you

But I just can't get no relief Lord

Somebody (somebody) ooh somebody (somebody)

Can anybody find me somebody to love?

I work hard (he works hard) everyday of my life

I work till I ache my bones

At the end (at the end of the day)

I take home my hard earned pay all on my own

I get down (down) on my knees (knees)

And I start to pray (praise the Lord)

'Til the tears run down from my eyes

Lord somebody (somebody) ooh somebody (please)

Can anybody find me somebody to love?

(He wants help)

Every day - I try and I try and I try -

But everybody wants to put me down

They say I'm goin' crazy

They say I got a lot of water in my brain

Got no common sense

(He's)I got nobody left to believe

Yeah - yeah yeah yeah

Ooh

Somebody (somebody)

Can anybody find me somebody to love?

(Anybody find me someone to love)

Got no feel I got no rhythm

I just keep losing my beat (you just keep losing and losing)

I'm OK I'm alright (he's alright)

I ain't gonna face no defeat

I just gotta get out of this prison cell

One day I'm gonna be free Lord

Find me somebody to love find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love find me somebody to love

Somebody somebody somebody somebody somebody

Find me somebody find me somebody to love

Can anybody find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love

Find me find me find me

Find me somebody to love

Somebody to love

Find me somebody to love...

 
 

Now I'm Here

(Brian May)

Here I stand (here I stand..)

Look around around around around

(Around around around around..)

But you won't see me (you won't see me..)

Now I'm here (now I'm here..)

Now I'm there (now I'm there..)

I'm just a just a new man

Yes you made me live again

A baby I was when you took my hand

And the light of the night burned bright

And the people all stared didn't understand

But you knew my name on sight

Whatever came of you and me?

America's new bride to be

Don't worry baby I'm safe and sound

Down in the dungeon just Peaches and me

Don't I love her so?

Yes she made me live again Yeah!

A thin moon me in the smoke screen sky

Where the beams of your love light chase

Don't move don't speak don't feel no pain

With the rain running down my face

Your matches still light up the sky

And many a tear lives on in my eye

Down in the city just Hoople and me

Don't I love him so don't I love him so?

Whatever comes of you and me

I love to leave my memories with you

Now I'm here (now I'm here.)

Think I'll stay around around around

(Around around around around..)

Down in the city just you and me

(Down in the city just you and me..)

Don't I love you so?

Go Go Go Little Queenie

 
 

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy

(Freddie Mercury)

I can dim the lights

And sing you songs full of sad things

We can do the tango just for two

I can serenade and gently play

On your heart strings

Be your Valentino just for you

Ooh love Ooh lover boy

What're doing tonight hey boy?

Set my alarm turn on my charm

That's because I'm a good old fashioned lover boy

Ooh let me feel you heartbeat

(Grow faster faster)

Ooh can you feel my love heat

Come on and sit on my hot seat of love

And tell me how do you feel right after all

I'd like for you and I to go romancing

Say the word your wish is my command

Ooh love Ooh lover boy

What're doing tonight hey boy?

Write my letter feel much better

And use my fancy patter on the telephone

When I'm not with you

Think of you always I miss you

(I miss those long hot summer nights)

When I'm not with you

Think of me always I love you love you

Hey boy where did you get it from?

Hey boy where did you go?

I learned my passion

In the good old fashioned school of lover boys

Dining at the Ritz we'll meet at nine precisely

(One two three four five six seven eight nine)

I will pay the bill you taste the wine

Driving back in style in my saloon will do quite nicely

Just take me back to yours that will be fine

(Come on and get it)

Ooh love Ooh lover boy

What're you doing tonight hey boy?

Ev'rything's all right just hold on tight

That's because I'm a good old fashioned lover boy

 
 

Play The Game

(Freddie Mercury)

Open up your mind and let me step inside

Rest your weary head and let your heart decide

It's so easy when you know the rules

It's so easy all you have to do

Is fall in love

Play the game

Ev'rybody play the game of love

When you're feelin' down and your resistance is low

Light another cigarette and let yourself go

This is your life

Don't play hard to get

It's a free world

All you have to do is fall in love

Play the game ev'ryone play the game of love

My game of love has just begun

Love runs from my head down to my toes

My love is pumping through my veins (play the game)

Driving me insane

Come come come come play the game play the game play the game play the game

Play the game everybody play the game of love

This is your life - don't play hard to get

It's a free free world all you have to do is fall in love

Play the game yeah play the game of love

Your life - don't play hard to get

It's a free free world all you have to do is fall in love

Play the game - ev'rybody play the game...

 
 

Flash

(Brian May)

Flash - Ah - Saviour of the universe

Flash - Ah - He'll save ev'ry one of us

'Seemingly there is no reason for these

Extraordinary intergalactical upsets (ha ha ha)

What's happening Flash?

Only Dr Hans Zarkov formerly at N A S A

Has provided any explanation'

Flash - Ah - He's a miracle

'This mornings unprecedented solar eclipse

Is no cause for alarm'

Flash - Ah - King of the impossible

He's for ev'ry one of us

Stand for ev'ry one of us

He'll save with a mighty hand

Ev'ry man ev'ry woman ev'ry child

With a mighty Flash

'General Kaka Flash Gordon approaching

What do you mean Flash Gordon approaching?

Open fire all weapons

Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body'

Flash - Ah

'Gordon's alive'

Flash - Ah - He'll save ev'ry one of us

Just a man with a man's courage

He knows nothing but a man

But he can never fail

No one but the pure in heart

May find the golden grail oh oh oh oh

'Flash Flash I love you

But we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth'

Flash

 
 

Seven Seas Of Rhye

(Freddie Mercury)

Fear me you lord and lady preachers

I descend upon your earth from the skies

I command your very souls you unbelievers

Bring before me what is mine

The seven seas of Rhye

Can you hear me you peers and privy councillors

I stand before you naked to the eyes

I will destroy any man who dares abuse my trust

I swear that you'll be mine

At the seven seas of Rhye

Sister I live and lie for you

Mister do and I'll die

You are mine I possess you

Belong to you forever

Storm the master marathon I'll fly through

By flash and thunder fire I'll survive

I'll survive I'll survive

Then I'll defy the laws of nature

And come out alive

Begone with you you shod and shady senators

Give out the good leave out the bad evil cries

I challenge the mighty titan and his troubadours

And with a smile

I'll take you to the seven seas of Rhye

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside

Oh I do like to be beside the sea

Oh I do like to stroll along the prom prom prom

Where the brass bands play tiddley om pom pom

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside

Oh I do like to be beside the sea

When I'm down beside the sea I'm beside myself with glee

Beside the seaside

Beside the sea

 
 

We Will Rock You

(Brian May)

Buddy you're a boy make a big noise

Playin' in the street gonna be a big man some day

You got mud on yo' face

You big disgrace

Kickin' your can all over the place

Singin'

'We will we will rock you

We will we will rock you'

Buddy you're a young man hard man

Shoutin' in the street gonna take on the world some day

You got blood on yo' face

You big disgrace

Wavin' your banner all over the place

'We will we will rock you'

Singin'

'We will we will rock you'

Buddy you're an old man poor man

Pleadin' with your eyes gonna make you some peace some day

You got mud on your face

You big disgrace

Somebody better put you back into your place

'We will we will rock you'

Singin'

'We will we will rock you'

Everybody

'We will we will rock you'

'We will we will rock you'

Alright

 
 

We Are The Champions

(Freddie Mercury)

I've paid my dues

Time after time

I've done my sentence

But committed no crime

And bad mistakes

I've made a few

I've had my share of sand

Kicked in my face

But I've come through

And I need to go on and on and on and on

We are the champions - my friend

And we'll keep on fighting till the end

We are the champions

We are the champions

No time for losers

'Cause we are the champions of the world

I've taken my bows

And my curtain calls

You've bought me fame and fortune

And everything that goes with it

I thank you all

But it's been no bed of roses no pleasure cruise

I consider it a challenge before the whole human race

And I ain't gonna lose

And I need to go on and on and on and on

We are the champions - my friend

And we'll keep on fighting till the end

We are the champions

We are the champions

No time for losers

'Cause we are the champions of the world

We are the champions - my friend

And we'll keep on fighting till the end

We are the champions

We are the champions

No time for losers

'Cause we are the champions

 
 
 

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