> QUEEN II

  • 1. Procession

  • 2. Father to son

  • 3. White Queen (As it began)

  • 4. Some day one day

  • 5. The loser in the end

  • 6. Ogre battle

  • 7. The fairy feller's master-stroke

  • 8. Nevermore

  • 9. The march of the black Queen

  • 10.Funny how love is

  • 11.Seven seas of Rhye





    •  PROCESSION

    INSTRUMENTAL



     FATHER TO SON

    A word in your ear
    From father to son
    Hear the word that I say
    I fought with you
    Fought on your side
    Long before you were born
    Joyful the sound
    The word goes around
    From father to son to son

    And the voice is so clear
    Time after time it keeps
    Calling you calling you on
    Don't destroy what you see
    Your country to be
    Just keep building on the ground
    That's been won
    Kings will be crowned
    The word goes around
    From father to son to son

    Won't you hear us sing
    Our family song?
    Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
    Now we hand it on
    But I've heard it all before
    Take this letter that I give you
    Take it sonny hold it high
    You won't understand a word that's in it
    But you'll write it all again before you die

    A word in your ear
    From father to son
    Funny you don't hear
    A single word that I say
    But my letter to you
    Will stay by your side
    Thru' the years
    Till the loneliness is gone

    Sing if you will
    But the air you breathe
    I live to give you
    Father to son father to son
    Father to son father to son
    Joyful the sound
    Word goes around
    Father to son to son
    Kings will be crowned
    Earth goes around
    Father to son to son

    Joyful the sound
    Word goes around
    Father to son to son
    Kings will be crowned
    Earth goes around
    Father to son to son

     

     WHITE QUEEN (As it began)

    So sad her eyes smiling dark eyes
    So sad her eyes as it began
    On such a breathless night as this
    Upon my brow the lightest kiss
    I walked alone
    And all around the air did sway
    My lady soon will stir this way
    In sorrow known
    The white queen walks
    And the night grows pale
    Stars of lovingness in her hair
    Heeding unheard pleading one word
    So sad my eyes she cannot see

    How did thee fare what have thee seen
    The mother of the willow green
    I call her name
    And 'neath her window have I stayed
    I loved the footsteps that she made
    And when she came
    White queen how my heart did ache
    And dry my lips no word would make
    So still I wait

    My goddess hear my darkest fear
    I speak too late
    It's for evermore that I wait
    Dear friend goodbye
    No tears in my eyes
    So sad it ends as it began



     SOME DAY ONE DAY

    You never heard my song before
    The music was too loud
    But now I think you hear me well
    For now we both know how
    No star can light our way
    In this cloud of dark and fear
    But someday one day

    Funny how the pages turn
    And hold us in between
    A misty castle waits for you
    And you shall be a queen
    Today the cloud it hangs
    Over us and all is grey
    But someday one day

    When I was you and you were me
    And we were very young
    Together took us nearly there
    The rest may not be sung
    So still the cloud it hangs
    Over us and we're alone
    But some day one day
    We'll come home

     THE LOSER IN THE END

    Mama's got a problem
    She don't know what to say
    Her little baby boy
    Has just left home today
    She's got to be the loser in the end
    She's got to be the loser in the end
    Misuse her and you'll lose her as a friend
    She's ma on whom you can always depend ooh

    She washed and fed and clothed and cared
    For nearly twenty years
    And all she gets is Goodbye Ma
    And the night times for her tears
    She's got to be the loser in the end
    She's got to be the loser in the end
    Misuse her and you'll lose her as a friend
    She's ma on whom you can always depend ooh

    So listen mothers ev'rywhere
    To just one mothers son
    You'll get forgotten on the way
    If you don't let them have their fun
    Forget regrets and just remember
    It's not so long since you were young

    You're bound to be the loser in the end
    You're bound to be the loser in the end
    They'll chose their new shoes
    That's not far to bend
    You're ma on whom they can always depend ooh ooh

     OGRE BATTLE

    Now once upon a time
    An old man told me a fable
    When the piper is gone
    And the soup is cold on the table
    And if the black crow flies
    To find a new destination
    That is the sign

    Come tonight
    Come to the ogre site
    Come to the ogre battle fight

    He gives a great big cry
    And he can swallow up the ocean
    With a mighty tongue he catches flies
    And the palm of his hand incredible size
    One great big eye has to focus in your direction
    Now the battle is on
    Yeah yeah yeah!

    Come tonight
    Come to the ogre site
    Come to the ogre battle fight

    Ah ah ah ah ah
    The ogre men are still inside
    The two way mirror mountain
    You gotta keep down
    Right out of sight
    You can't see in but they can see out
    Keep a look out
    The ogre men are coming out
    From the two way mirror mountain
    They're running up behind
    And they're coming all about
    Can't go east 'cause you gotta go south

    Ogre men are coming home
    The great big fight is over
    Bugle blow let trumpet cry
    Ogre battle lives for ever more
    You can come along
    You can come along
    Come to ogre battle

     

     THE FAIRY FELLER'S MASTER-STROKE

    He's a fairy feller
    Ah ah the fairy folk have gathered
    Round the new moon's shine
    To see the feller crack a nut
    At night's noon time
    To swing his axe he swears
    As he climbs he dares
    To deliver the master stroke

    Ploughman wagoner will' and types
    Politician with senatorial pipe
    He's a dilly dally oh
    Pedagogue squinting wears a frown
    And a satyr peers under lady's gown
    He's a dirty fellow
    What a dirty laddie-oh

    Tatterdemalion and the junketer
    There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter
    He's my hero ah
    Fairy dandy tickling the fancy
    Of his lady friend
    The nymph in yellow (can we see the master stroke)
    What a quaere fellow

    Ah ah ah ah ah ah
    Ah ah ah ah ah ah
    Soldier sailor tinker tailor ploughboy
    Waiting to hear the sound
    And the arch magician presides
    He is the leader

    Oberon and Titania watched by a harridan
    Mab is the queen and there's a good apothecary man
    Come to say hello
    Fairy dandy tickling the fancy
    Of his lady friend
    The nymph in yellow
    What a quaere fellow
    The ostler stares with hands on his knees
    Come on mister feller
    Crack it open if you please

     

     NEVERMORE

    There's no living in my life anymore
    The seas have gone dry
    And the rain's stopped falling
    Please don't you cry any more
    Can't you see
    Listen to the breeze
    Whisper to me please
    Don't send me to the path of nevermore

    Even the valley's below
    Where the rays of the sun
    Were so warm and tender
    Now haven't anything to grow
    Can't you see?
    Why did you have to leave me? (nevermore)
    Why did you deceive me? (nevermore)
    You sent me to the path of nevermore
    When you say you didn't love me anymore
    Ah ah nevermore nevermore

     

     THE MARCH OF THE BLACK QUEEN

    Do you mean it do you mean it do you mean it
    Why don't you mean it why do I follow you
    And where do you go?
    Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
    You've never seen nothing like it
    No never in your life
    Like going up to heaven
    And then coming back alive
    Let me tell you all about it
    Oooh give me a little time to choose
    Water babies singing in a lily pool delight
    Blue powder monkeys praying in the dead of night
    Here comes the Black Queen poking in the pile
    Fi fo the Black Queen marching single file
    Take this take that bring them down to size
    March to the Black Queen

    Put them in the cellar with the naughty boys
    Little nigger sugar then a rub-a-dub-a-baby oil
    Black on black on every finger nail and toe
    We've only begun - begun
    Make this make that keep making all that noise
    Ooh march to the Black Queen
    Now I've got a belly full
    You can be my sugar baby
    You can be my honey chile

    A voice from behind me reminds me
    Spread out your wings you are an angel
    Remember to deliver with the speed of light
    A little bit of love and joy
    Everything you do bears a will
    And a why and a wherefore
    A little bit of love and joy
    In each and every soul lies a man
    And very soon he'll deceive and discover
    But even to the end of his life
    He'll bring a little love

    Ah ah ah ah ah
    I reign with my left hand I rule with my right
    I'm lord of all darkness I'm queen of the night
    I've got the power now to do
    The march of the Black Queen
    My life is in your hands I'll fo and I'll fie
    I'll be what you make me I'll do what you like
    I'll be a bad boy I'll be your bad boy
    I'll do the march of the Black Queen
    Ah ah ah ah ah

    Walking true to style she's vulgar abuse and vile
    The Black Queen tattoos all her pies
    She boils and she bakes
    And she never dots her I's
    La la la la la la la la la la la la
    La la la la la

    Forget your sing a-longs and your lullabies
    Surrender to the city of the fireflies
    Dance to the devil in beat with the band
    To hell with all of you hand in hand
    But now it's time to be gone
    La la la la forever forever
    Ah ah ah ah ah

     

     FUNNY HOW LOVE IS

    Funny how love is everywhere just look and see
    Funny how love is anywhere you're bound to be
    Funny how love is every song in every key
    Funny how love is coming home in time for tea
    Funny funny funny oh
    Funny how love is the end of the lies
    When the truth begins tomorrow comes
    Tomorrow brings tomorrow brings love
    In the shape of things
    That's what love is that's what love is

    Funny how love can break your heart so suddenly
    Funny how love came tumbling down with Adam and Eve
    Funny how love is running wild feeling free
    Funny how love is coming home in time for tea
    Funny funny funny oh
    From the earth below to the heavens above
    That's how far and funny is love
    At any time anywhere
    If you gotta make love do it everywhere
    That's what love is that's what love is

    Funny how love is everywhere just look and see
    Funny how love is anywhere you're bound to be
    Funny how love is every song in every key
    Funny how love is when you gotta hurry
    'Cause you're late for tea
    Funny funny funny oh
    Tommorrow comes tomorrow brings
    Tomorrow brings love in the shape of things
    At any time anywhere
    If you gotta make love do it everywhere
    That's what love is that's what love is


     SEVEN SEAS OF RHYE

    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