QUEEN


A Day At The Races

(1976)



1. Tie Your Mother Down 4'48
(Brian May)
2. You Take My Breath Away 5'08
(Freddie Mercury)
3. Long Away 3'34
(Brian May)
4. The Millionaire Waltz 4'55
(Freddie Mercury)
5. You And I 3'26
(John Deacon)
6. Somebody To Love 4'56
(Freddie Mercury)
7. White Man 5'00
(Brian May)
8. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy 2'54
(Freddie Mercury)
9. Drowse 3'45
(Roger Taylor)
10. Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together) 5'54
(Brian May)

Total Time: 44:20


  • Freddie Mercury - Piano, Vocals, Choir Meister, Tantrums
  • Brian May - Guitar, Vocals, Leader Of The Orchestra
  • John Deacon - Fender Bass
  • Roger Taylor - Percussion, Drums, Vocals, Pandemonium

    Produced by QUEEN
    Pete Brown - Co-ordinator
    Engineered by Mike Stone
    John Harris - Crew Equipment Supervision
    David Costa - Art Direction
    Inner Sleeve Co-ordination - CREAM
    Digital Remastered by
    QUEEN PRODUCTIONS Ltd. 1993

    Released: December 10, 1976





    1. Tie Your Mother Down

      Get your party gown
      Get your pigtail down
      Get your heart beatin' baby
      Got my timin' right
      Got my act all tight
      It's gotta be tonight my little
      Schoolbabe

      Your momma says you don't
      And your Daddy says you won't
      And I'm boilin' up inside
      Ain't no way I'm gonna lose out this time

      Tie your Mother down
      Tie your Mother down
      Lock your Daddy out of doors
      I don't need him nosing around
      Tie your Mother down
      Tie your Mother down
      Give me all your love tonight

      You're such a dirty louse
      Go get outta my house
      That's all I ever get from your
      Family ties, in fact I don't think I ever heard
      A single little civil word
      from those guys
      But you know I don't give a light
      I'm gonna make out all right
      I've got a sweetheart hand
      To put a stop to all that
      Grousin' an' snipin'

      Tie your Mother down
      Tie your Mother down
      Take your little brother swimmin'
      With a brick (that's all right)
      Tie your Mother down,
      Tie your Mother down
      Or you ain't no friend of mine

      Your momma and your Daddy gonna
      Plague me til I die
      Why can't they understand I'm just a
      Peace lovin' guy
      Tie your Mother down
      Tie your Mother down . . .etc etc . . .

    2. You Take My Breath Away

      Look into my eyes and you'll see
      I'm the only one
      You've captured my love
      Stolen my heart
      Changed my life
      Every time you make a move
      You destroy my mind
      And the way you touch
      I lose control and shiver deep inside
      You take my breath away

      You can reduce me to tears
      With a single sigh
      Every breath that you take -
      Any sound that you make
      Is a whisper in my ear
      I could give up all my life for just one kiss
      I would surely die
      If you dismiss me from your love
      You take my breath away

      So please don't go
      Don't leave me here all by myself
      I get ever so lonely from time to time
      I will find you
      Anywhere you go, I'll be right behind you
      Right until the ends of the earth
      I'll get no sleep till I find you to tell you
      That you just take my breath
      away

      I will find you...etc
      I'll get no sleep til I find you to
      tell you when I've found you -
      I love you

    3. Long Away

      You might believe in heaven
      I would not care to say
      For every star in heaven
      There's a sad soul here today
      Wake up in the morning with a good face
      Stare at the moon all day
      Lonely as a whisper on a star chase
      Does anyone care anyway
      For all the prayers in heaven
      So much of life's this way

      Did we leave our way behind us
      Such a long long way behind us
      Who knows when, now who knows where
      Where the light of day will find us?
      Look for the day

      Take heart, my friend, we love you
      Though it seems like you're alone
      A million lights above you
      Smile down upon your home
      Hurry put your troubles in a suitcase
      Come let the new child play
      Lonely as a whisper on a star chase
      I'm leaving here, I'm long away
      For all the stars in heaven
      I would not live
      I could not live this way

      Did we leave our way behind us
      Such a long way behind us
      Leave it for some hopeless lane
      Such a long long way
      such a long long way
      such a long long away
      I'm looking for
      Still looking for that day

    4. The Millionaire Waltz

      Bring out the charge of the love brigade
      There is spring in the air once again
      Drink to the sound of the song parade
      There is music and love everywhere
      Give a little love to me
      Take a little love from me,
      I want to share it with you
      I feel like a millionaire

      Once we were mad, we were happy
      We spent all our days holding hands together
      Do you remember, my love
      How we danced and played
      In the rain we laid
      Could stay there, forever and ever

      Now I am sad
      You are so far away
      I sit counting the hours day by day
      Come back to me, how I long for your love
      Come back to me - be happy like
      we used to be Come back to me, oh my love
      How I long for your love - won't you come back to me, yeah
      My fine friend - take me with you and love me forever -
      My fine friend - forever - ever
    (Repeat verse)
      Come back, come back to me, make me feel - Like a millionaire

    5. You And I

      Music is playing in the darkness
      And a lantern goes swinging by
      Shadows flickering
      My heart's jittering
      Just you and I

      Not tonight
      Come tomorrow
      When everything's sunny and bright
      No No No
      Come tomorrow
      Cos then we'll be waiting for the moonlight

      We'll go walking in the moonlight
      Walking in the moonlight

      Laughter ringing in the darkness
      People drinking for days gone by
      Time don't mean a thing
      When you're by my side
      Please stay a while

      You know I never could foresee the future years
      You know I never could see
      where life was leading me
      But will we be together for ever
      What will be my love, can't you see that I just don't know

      No no not tonight
      Come tomorrow
      When everything's gonna be alright
      Wait and see
      If tomorrow
      We'll be as happy as we're feeling tonight

      We'll go walking in the moonlight
      Walking in the moonlight

      I can hear the music in the darkness
      Floating softly to where to lie
      No more questions now
      Let's enjoy tonight
      Just you and I
      Just you and I

    6. Somebody To Love

      Can anybody find me somebody to love?
      Each morning I get up I die a little
      Can barely stand on my feet
      Take a look in the mirror and cry
      Lord what you're doing to me
      I have spent all my years in believing you
      But I just can't get no relief,
      Lord!
      Somebody, somebody
      Can anybody find me somebody to love?

      I work hard every day of my life
      I work till I ache my bones
      At the end I take home my hard earned pay all on my own -
      I get down on my knees
      And I start to pray
      Till the tears run down from my eyes
      Lord - somebody - somebody
      Can anybody find me - somebody to love?

      He works hard)

      Everyday - 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
      I got nobody left to believe
      Yeah - yeah yeah yeah

      Oh Lord
      Somebody - somebody
      Can anybody find me somebody to love?

      Got no feel, I got no rhythm
      I just keep losing my beat
      I'm ok, I'm alright
      Ain't gonna face no defeat
      I just gotta get out of this prison cell
      Someday I'm gonna be free, Lord!

      Find me somebody to love
      Can anybody find me somebody to love?
    Gospel Choir: Roger, Brian & Freddie

    7. White Man

      I'm a simple man
      With a simple name
      From this soil my people came
      In this soil remain
      Oh yeah. . .

      And we made us our shoes
      And we trod soft on the land
      But the immigrant built roads
      On our blood and sand
      Oh yeah. . .

      White man, white man
      Don't you see the light behind your blackened skies
      White man, white man
      You took away sight to blind my simple eyes
      White man, white man
      Where you gonna hide
      From the hell you've made?

      Oh the red man knows war
      With his hands and his knives
      On the Bible you swore
      Fought your battle with lies
      Oh yeah. . .

      Leave my body in shame
      Leave my soul in disgrace
      But by every God's name
      Say your prayers for your race

      White man, white man
      Our country was green and all our rivers wide
      White man, white man
      You came with a gun and soon our children died
      White man, white man
      Don't you give a light for the blood you've shed?

      What is left of your dream?
      Just the words on your stone
      A man who learned how to teach
      Then forget how to learn

    8. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy

      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 Loverboy
      What're you doin' tonight, hey boy -
      Set my alarm, turn on my charm
      That's because I'm a good old-fashioned loverboy

      Ooh let me feel your heartbeat (grow faster, faster)
      Ooh Ooh let me feel your 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 loverboy
      What're you doin' tonight, hey boy
      Write my letter
      Feel much better
      I'll use my fancy patter on the telephone
      When I'm not with you
      I 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 do you get it from
      Hey boy where did you go?
      I learned my passion in the good old
      fashioned school of loverboys-
      Dining at the Ritz we'll meet at nine precisely
      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 loverboy
      What're you doin' tonight, hey boy -
      Everything's all right
      Just hold on tight -
      That's because I'm a good old fashioned loverboy
    Additional Vocal: Mike Stone

    9. Drowse

      It's the sad-eyed, goodbye, yesterday moments I remember It's the bleak
      street, weak-kneed partings I recall It's the mistier mist
      The hazier days
      The brighter sun
      And the easier lays
      There's all the more reason for laughing and crying
      When you're younger and life isn't too hard at all

      It's the fantastic drowse of the afternoon Sundays
      That bored you to rages of tears
      The unending pleadings, to waste all your good times
      In thoughts of your middle aged years
      It's a vertical hold, all the things that you're told
      For the everyday hero it all turns to zero
      And there's all the more reason for living or dying
      When you're young and your troubles are all very small

      Out here on the street
      We'd gather and meet
      And scuff up the sidewalk with endlessly restless feet
      Half of the time
      We'd broaden our minds
      More in the poolhall than we did in the schoolahll
      With the downtown chewing-gum bums
      Watching the nightlife, the lights and the fun

      Never wanted to be the boy next door
      Always thought I'd be something more
      But it ain't easy for a downtown boy
      It ain't easy at all
      Thinkin' it right, doin' it wrong
      It's easier from an armchair
      Waves of alternatives wash at my sleepiness Have my eggs poached for
      breakfast I guess

    10. Teo Torriatte

      When I'm gone
      Don't stop to wonder if I ever think of you
      The same moon shines
      The same wind blows
      For both of us, and time is but a paper moon. . . be not gone

      Though I'm gone
      It's just as though I hold the flower that touches you
      A new life grows
      The blossom knows
      There's no one else could warm my heart as much as you. . . be not gone

      Let us cling together as the years go by
      Oh my love, my love
      In the quiet of the night
      Let our candle always burn
      Let us never lose the lessons we have learned

      Teo Torriate konomama iko
      Aisuruhito yo
      Shizukana yoi ni
      Hikario tomoshi
      Itoshiki oshieo idaki

      Hear my song
      Still think of me the way you've come to think of me
      The nights grow long
      But dreams live on
      Just close your pretty eyes and you can be with me. . . dream on

      When I'm gone
      They'd say we're all fools and we don't understand
      Oh be strong
      Don't turn your heart
      You're all
      We're all
      For all
      For always . . .

    Drowse Ending

      What the Summer '84 Queen Fan Club mag says the spoken end of the song "Drowse" on the "A Day At The Races" album is:

      Think I'll have my eggs poached for breakfast again I'd like to be Clint Eastwood
      Jimi Hendrix, he was greatlet's try William The Conqueror Now who else do I like?

      What most of the QMS agrees on for the spoken end of the song "Drowse" on the "A Day At The Races" album:

      Have my eggs eggs poached for breakfast I guess
      Nothing wrong with [I think I'll be] Clint Eastwood.. Jimi Hendrix, he was good.
      [don't know]
      Now who else do I like?
      [something very very very faint].