QUEEN


A Night At The Opera

(1975)



1. Death On Two Legs 3'43
(Freddie Mercury)
Dedicated to .....
2. Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon 1'08
(Freddie Mercury)
3. I'm In Love With My Car 3'05
(Roger Taylor)
Dedicated to Jonathan Harris, boy racer to the end
4. You're My Best Friend 2'53
(John Deacon)
5. '39 3'31
(Brian May)
6. Sweet Lady 4'04
(Brian May)
7. Seaside Rendezvous 2'17
(Freddie Mercury)
8. The Prophet's Song 8'21
(Brian May)
9. Love Of My Life 3'40
(Freddie Mercury)
10. Good Company 3'24
(Brian May)
11. Bohemian Rhapsody 5'55
(Freddie Mercury)
12. God Save The Queen 1'15
(Traditional, Arranged by Brian May)

Total Time: 43:16


  • Freddie Mercury - Vocals, Operatic Vocals (11), Bechstein Deabauchery, Vocal Orchestration of Woodwinds (7)
  • Brian May - Guitars, Guitar Jazz Band (10), Harp (9), Genuine Aloha Ukulele (made in Japan) (10), Toy Koto (8), Vocals (5, 10) and Orchestral Backdrops, Operatic Vocals (11)
  • John Deacon - Electric Bass, Double Bass (5) and Electric Piano (3)
  • Roger Taylor - Percussion, Vocals (3), Vocal Orchestration of Brass (7), Operatic Vocals (11)

    No Synthesizers !

    Produced by Roy Thomas Baker and QUEEN
    Executive Engineer - Mike Stone -
    Invaluable Additional Engineering - Gary Lyons
    Equipment Supervision - John Harris
    Art Direction - David Costa

    All Titles Composed, Arranged and Performed Exclusively by QUEEN

    Special Thanks To Rick Curtin & Brian Palmer

    Original Sound Recordings made by QUEEN in 1974
    Recorded at
    SARM, Roundhouse, OLYMPIC, Rockfield, SCORPIO and LANSDOWNE
    Mixed at
    SARM STUDIOS

    Released: November 21, 1975





    1. Death On Two Legs

      You suck my blood like a leech
      You break the law and you breach
      Screw my brain till it hurts
      You've taken all my money - you still want more,

      Misguided old mule
      With your pigheaded rules
      With your narrow - minded cronies who are fools of the first division-

      Death on two legs -
      You're tearing me apart,
      Death on two legs
      You never had a heard of your own -
      Kill joy, Bad guy,
      Big talking, Small fry
      You're just an old barrow - boy
      Have you found a new toy to replace me,
      Can you face me -

      But now you can kiss my ass goodbye

      Feel good, are you satisfied

      Do you feel like suicide (I think you should)
      Is your conscience all right
      Does it plague you at night,
      Do you feel good - Feel good!

      Talk like a big business tycoon,
      But you're just a hot - air balloon,
      So no one gives you a damn,
      You're just an overgrown school - boy
      Let me tan your hide.

      A dog with disease,
      King of the 'sleaze'
      Put your money where your mouth is Mr. Know all,
      Was the fin on your back part of the deal...(shark!)

      Death on two legs
      You're tearing me apart
      Death on two legs -
      You never had a heart of your own,
      You never did, right from the start)

      Insane you should be put inside,
      You're a sewer - rat decaying in a cesspool of pride
      Should be made unemployed
      Then make yourself null - and - void,
      Make me feel good
      I feel good.

    2. Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon

      I go out to work on a Monday morning
      Tuesday I go off to honeymoon
      I'll be back again before it's time for Sunny-down,
      I'll be lazing on a Sunday afternoon
      Bicycling on every Wednesday evening
      Thursday I go waltzing to the Zoo
      I come from London town, I'm just an ordinary guy,
      Fridays I go painting in the Louvre
      I'm bound to be proposing on a Saturday night (There he goes again)
      I'll be lazing on a Sunday
      lazing on a Sunday
      lazing on a Sunday Afternoon.

    3. I'm In Love With My Car

      Dedicated to Johnathan Harris, boy racer to the end)
      The machine of a dream, such a clean machine,
      With the pistons a pumpin', and the hubcaps all gleam.
      When I'm holding your wheel,
      All I hear is your gear,
      When my hand's on your grease gun,
      Oh it's like a disease son,
      I'm in love with my car, gotta feel for my automobile,
      Get a grip on my boy racer rollbar,
      Such a thrill when your radials squeal.

      Told my girl I just had to forget her,
      Rather buy me a new cartburettor,
      So she made tracks sayin' ths is the end now,
      Cars don't talk back they're just four wheeled friends now,

      When I'm holding your wheel,
      All I hear is your gear,
      When I'm cruisin' in overdrive,
      Don't have to listen to no run of the mill talk jive,

      I'm in love with my car, gotta feel for my automobile,
      I'm in love with my car, string back gloves in my automolove !

    4. You're My Best Friend

      Ooo. 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

      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
      You're my best friend

      Ooo, you make me live

      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, happy at home
      You're my best friend.

      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 that you do
      You're my best friend
      Ooo, you make me live.

      I'm happy, happy at home
      You're my best friend
      You're my best friend
      Ooo, you make me live

    5. '39

      In the year of '39 assembled here the Volunteers
      In the days when lands were few
      Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
      The sweetest sight ever seen.

      And the night followed dau
      And the story tellers day
      That the score brave souls inside
      For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
      Ne'er looked back, never feared, never cried.

      Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
      Don't you hear me calling you
      Write your letters in the sand
      For the day I take your hand
      In the land that our grandchildren knew.

      In the year of '39 came a ship in from the blue
      The volunteers came home that day
      And they bring good news of a world so newly born
      Though their hearts so heavily weigh
      For the earth is old and grey, to a new home we'll away
      But my love this cannot be
      For so many years have gone though I'm older but a year
      Your mother's eyes in your eyes cry to me.

      Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
      Don't you hear me calling you
      All the letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand

      For my life
      Still ahead
      Pity Me.

    6. Sweet Lady

      You call me up and treat me like a dog
      You call me up and tear me up inside
      You've got me on a lead
      You bring me down
      You shout around
      You don't believe that I'm alone.

      Sweet Lady
      Sweet Lady
      Sweet Lady...Stay sweet.

      You say
      You call me up and feed me all the lines
      You call me sweet lime I'm some kind of cheese
      Waiting on the shelf
      You eat me up
      You hold me down
      I'm just a fool to make you a home

      And you say
      Sweet lady
      Sweet lady
      Sweet lady...Stay sweet."

      My Sweet lady
      Though it seems like we wait forever
      Stay sweet baby
      Believe and we've got everything we need.

    7. Seaside Rendezvous

      Seaside - whenever you stroll along with me I'm merely contemplating what
      you feel inside meanwhile I ask you to be my Clementine -
      You say you'd have to tell your daddy if you can - I love you madly -
      Let me imagination run away with you gladly -
      A brand new angle - highly commendable - Seaside Rendezvous -

      I feel so romantic - can we do it again
      Can we do it again sometime,
      Fantastic, c'est la vie mesdames et messieurs
      And at the peak of the season, the
      Mediterranean -, this time of year, it's so fashionable,
      I feel like dancing - in the tain,
      All I need is a volunteer -
      Dancing - what a damn jolly good idea -
      It's such a jollification - as a matter of fact, so tres charmant my dear -

      Underneath the moonlight - together we'll sail across the sea -
      Reminiscing every night
      Meantime - I ask you to be my valentine
      You say you do if you did but you daren't I'll be your Valentino -
      We'll ride upon an omnibus and then the casino -
      Get a new facial - so sensational -
      Seaside Rendezvous - so adorable,
      Seaside Rendezvous -
      Seaside Rendezvous -

    8. The Prophet's Song

      Oh Oh people of earth
      Listen to the warning
      The seer he said
      Beware the storm that gathers here
      Listen to the wise man.

      I dreamed I saw on a moonlit stair
      Spreading his hands on the multitude there
      A man who cried for a love gone stale
      And ice cold hearts of charity bare.
      I watched as fear took the old men's gaze
      Hopes of the yound in troubled graves
      I see no day, I heard him say
      So grey is the face of every mortal.

      Oh Oh people of earth
      Listen to the warning
      The prophet he said
      For soon the cold of night will fall
      Summoned by your own hand.

      Oh Oh children of the land
      Quicken to the new life
      Take my hand
      Fly and find the new green bough
      Return like the white dove.

      He told of death as a done white haze
      Taking the lost and the unloved babe
      Late too late all the wretches run
      These kinds of beasts now counting their days.

    9. Love Of My Life

      Love of my life - you hurt me,
      You broken my heart and now you leave me.
      Love of my life can't you see,
      Bring it back, bring it back,
      Don't take it away from me, because you don't know, what it means to me.

      Love of my life don't leave me,
      You've stolen my love, you now desert me,
      Love of my life can't you see,
      Bring it back, bring it back,
      Don't take it away from me because you don't know - what it means to me.

      You won't remember -
      When this is blown over
      And everything's all by the way -
      When I get older

      I will be there by your side to remind you how I still love you - still love you.

      Back - hurry back,
      Don't take it away from me,
      because you don't know what it means to me - Love of my life
      Love of my life ...

    10. Good Company

      Take good core of what you've got
      My father said to me
      As he puffed his pipe and Baby B.
      He dandled on his knee
      Don't fool with fools who'll turn away
      Keep all Good Company

      Oo Hoo Oo Hoo
      Take care of those you call your own
      And keep Good Company

      Soon I grew and happy too
      My very good friends and me
      We'd play all day and Sally J.
      The girl from number four
      And very soon I begged her won't you
      Keep me Company

      Now marriage is an insinuation sure
      My wife and I our needs and nothing more All my friends by a year
      By and by disappear
      But we're safe enough behind our door.

      I flourished in my humble trade
      My reputation grew
      The work devoured my waking hours
      But when my time was through
      Reward of all my efforts my own
      Limited Company

      I hardly noticed Sall as we
      Pated Company
      All through the years in the end it appears
      There was never really anyone but me

      Now I'm old I puff my pipe
      But no-one's there to see

      I ponder on the lesson of
      My life's insanity
      Take care of those you call your own
      And Keep Good Company

    11. Bohemian Rhapsody

      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, Little high, little low,
      Any way 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, ooh, 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, ev'rybody, I've got to go,
      Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.
      Mama, ooh, 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 fright'ning me.
      Galileo.) Galileo. (Galileo.) Galileo, Galileo figaro
      Magnifico. 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.) Ah.
      No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
      Oh 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.

    12. God Save The Queen

      ( instrumental )