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<blockquote data-quote="Floyd" data-source="post: 711" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong>Father To Son</strong></p><p>A word in your ear</p><p>From father to son</p><p>Hear the word that I say</p><p>I fought with you</p><p>Fought on your side</p><p>Long before you were born</p><p>Joyful the sound</p><p>The word goes around</p><p>From father to son</p><p></p><p>And the voice is so clear</p><p>Time after time it keeps</p><p>Calling you calling you on</p><p>Don't destroy what you see</p><p>Your country to be</p><p>Just keep building on the ground</p><p>That's been won</p><p>Kings will be crowned</p><p>The word goes around</p><p>From father to son to son</p><p></p><p>Won't you hear us sing</p><p>Our family song?</p><p>Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba</p><p>Now we hand it on</p><p>But I've heard it all before</p><p>Take this letter that I give you</p><p>Take it soney hold it high</p><p>You won't understand a word that's in it</p><p>But you'll write it all again before you die</p><p></p><p>A word in you ear</p><p>From father to son</p><p>Funny you don't hear</p><p>A single word that I say</p><p>But my letter to you</p><p>Will stay by my side</p><p>Through the years</p><p>Till the loneliness is gone</p><p></p><p>Sing if you will</p><p>But the air you breathe</p><p>I live to give you</p><p>Father to son father to son</p><p>Father to son father to son</p><p>Joyful the sound</p><p>Word goes around</p><p>Father to son to son</p><p>Kings will be crowned</p><p>Earth goes around</p><p>Father to son to son</p><p></p><p>Joyful the sound</p><p>Word goes around</p><p>Father to son to son</p><p>Kings will be crowned</p><p>Earth goes around</p><p>Father to son to son</p><p><strong>White Queen (As It Began)</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>So sad her eyes smiling dark eyes</p><p>So sad her eyes as it began</p><p>On such a breathless night as this</p><p>Upon my brow the lightest kiss</p><p>I walked alone</p><p>And all around the air did sway</p><p>May lady soon will stir this way</p><p>In sorrow known</p><p>The white queen walks</p><p>And the night grows pale</p><p>Stars of lovingness in her hair</p><p>Needing unheard pleading one word</p><p>So sad my eyes she cannot see</p><p></p><p>How did thee fare what have thee seen</p><p>The mother of the willow green</p><p>I call her name</p><p>And 'neath her window have I stayed</p><p>I love the footsteps that she made</p><p>And when see came</p><p>White queen how my heart did ache</p><p>And dry my lips no word would make</p><p>So still I wait</p><p></p><p>My goddess hear my darkest fear</p><p>I speak too late</p><p>It's for evermore that I wait</p><p>Dear friends goodbye</p><p>No tears in my eyes</p><p>So sad it ends as it began</p><p><strong>Some Day One Day</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>You never heard my song before</p><p>The music was too loud</p><p>But now I think you hear me well</p><p>For now we both know how</p><p>No star can light our way</p><p>In this cloud of dark and fear</p><p>But someday one day</p><p></p><p>Funny how he pages turn</p><p>And hold us in between</p><p>A misty castle waits for you</p><p>And you shall be a queen</p><p>Today the cloud it hangs</p><p>Over us and all is grey</p><p>But someday one day</p><p></p><p>When I was you and you were me</p><p>And we were very young</p><p>Together took us nearly there</p><p>The rest may not be sung</p><p>So still the cloud it hangs</p><p>Over us and we're alone</p><p>But someday one day</p><p>We'll come home</p><p><strong>The Loser In The End</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mama's got a problem</p><p>She don't know what to say</p><p>Her little baby boy</p><p>Has just left home today</p><p>She's got to be the loser in the end</p><p>She's got to be the loser in the end</p><p>Misuse her and you'll lose her as a friend</p><p>She's Ma on who you can always depend ooh</p><p></p><p>She washed and fed and clothed and cared</p><p>For nearly twenty years</p><p>And all she gets is Goodbye Ma</p><p>And the night times for her tears</p><p>She's got to be the loser in the end</p><p>She's got to be the loser in the end</p><p>Misuse her and you'll lose her as a friend</p><p>She's Ma on whom you can always depend ooh</p><p></p><p>So listen mothers everywhere</p><p>To just one mother's son</p><p>You'll get forgotten on the way</p><p>If you don't let them have their fun</p><p>Forget regrets and just remember</p><p>It's not so long since you were young</p><p></p><p>You're bound to be the loser in the end</p><p>You're bound to be the loser in the end</p><p>They'll choose their new shoes</p><p>That's not far to bend</p><p>You're Ma on whom they can always depend ooh ooh</p><p><strong>Ogre Battle</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Now once upon a time</p><p>An old man told me a fable</p><p>When the piper is gone</p><p>And the soup is cold upon the table</p><p>And if the black crow fl</p><p>ies</p><p>To find a new destination</p><p>That is the sign</p><p></p><p>Come tonight</p><p>Come to the ogre site</p><p>Come to ogre battle fight</p><p></p><p>He gives a great big cry</p><p>And he can swallow up the ocean</p><p>With mighty tongue he catches flies</p><p>And the palm of his hand incredible size</p><p>One great big eye</p><p>Has to focus in your direction</p><p>Now the battle is on</p><p>Yeah yeah yeah</p><p></p><p>Come tonight</p><p>Come to the ogre site</p><p>Come to ogre battle fight</p><p></p><p>Ah ah ah ah ah</p><p>The ogre en are still inside</p><p>The two way mirror mountain</p><p>You gotta keep down</p><p>Right out of site</p><p>You can't see in but they can see out</p><p>Keep a look out</p><p>The ogre men are comming out</p><p>>From the two way mirror mountain</p><p>They're running up behind</p><p>And they're comming all about</p><p>Can't go east 'cause you gotta go south</p><p></p><p>Ogre men are going home</p><p>The great big fight is over</p><p>Bugle blow that trumpet cry</p><p>Ogre Battle lives for ever more</p><p>You can come along</p><p>You can come along</p><p>Come to ogre battle</p><p><strong>The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>He's a fairy feller</p><p>Ah ah the fairy folk have gathered</p><p>Round the new moon's shine</p><p>To see the feller crack a nut</p><p>At night's noon time</p><p>To swing his axe he swears</p><p>As he climbs he dares</p><p>To deliver the master stroke</p><p></p><p>Ploughman wagoner will and types</p><p>Politician with sentorial pipe</p><p>He's a dilly dally oh</p><p>Pedagogue squinting wears a frown</p><p>And a satyr peers under lady's gown</p><p>He's a dirty fellow</p><p>What a dirty laddie-oh</p><p></p><p>Tatterdemalion and the junketer</p><p>There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter</p><p>He's my hero ah</p><p>Fairy dandy tickling the fancy</p><p>Of his lady friend</p><p>The nymph in yellow can we see the master stroke</p><p>What a quaere fellow</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ah ah ah ah ah ah</p><p>Ah ah ah ah ah ah</p><p>Soldier sailor tinker tailor ploughboy</p><p>Waiting to hear the sound</p><p>And the arch magician presides</p><p>He is the leader</p><p></p><p>Oberon and Titania watched by a harridan</p><p>Mab is the queen and there's a good apothecary man</p><p>Come to say hello</p><p>Fairy dandy tickling the fancy</p><p>Of his lady friend</p><p>The nymph in yellow can we see the master stroke</p><p>What a quaere fellow</p><p>The ostler stares with hands on his knees</p><p>Come on mister feller</p><p>Crack it open if you please</p><p><strong>Nevermore</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>(Mercury)</p><p></p><p>There's no living in my life anymore</p><p>The seas have gone dry</p><p>And the rain's stopped falling</p><p>Please don't you cry anymore</p><p>Can't you see</p><p>Listen to the breeze</p><p>And whisper to me please</p><p>Don't seed me to the path of nevermore</p><p></p><p>Even in the valley's down below</p><p>Where the rays of the sun</p><p>Were so warm and tender</p><p>Now haven't anything to grow</p><p>Can't you see?</p><p>Why did you have to leave me?</p><p>Why did you deceive me?</p><p>You sent me to the path of nevermore</p><p>When you say you didn't love me anymore</p><p>Ah ah nevermore nevermore</p><p><strong>The March Of The Black Queen</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Do you mean it do you mean it do you mean it</p><p>Why don't you mean it why do I follow you</p><p>And where do I go?</p><p>Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah</p><p>You've never seen nothing like it</p><p>No never in you're life</p><p>Like going up to heaven</p><p>And then coming back alive</p><p>Let me tell you all about it</p><p>Oooh give a little time to choose</p><p>Water babies singing in a lily pool delight</p><p>Blue powder monkeys praying in the dead of the night</p><p>Here comes the Black Queen poking in the pile</p><p>Fi fo the Black Queen marching single file</p><p>Take this take that bring them down to size</p><p></p><p>Put them in the cellar with the naughty boys</p><p>Little nigger sugar then a rub-a-dub-a-baby oil</p><p>Black on black on every finger nail and toe</p><p>We've only begun - begun</p><p>Make this make that keep making all that noise</p><p>Ooh march to the Black Queen</p><p>Now I've got a belly full</p><p>You can be my sugar baby</p><p>You can be my honey chile</p><p></p><p>A voice from behind me reminds me</p><p>Spread out your little wings you are an angel</p><p>Remember to deliver with the speed of light</p><p>A little bit of love and joy</p><p>Everything you do bears a will</p><p>And a why and a wherefore</p><p>Each little bit of love and joy</p><p>In each and every man lies a man</p><p>And very soon he'll deceive and discover</p><p>But even till the end of his life</p><p>He'll bring a little love</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ah ah ah ah ah</p><p>I reign with my left hand I rule with my right</p><p>I'm lord of all darkness I'm queen of the night</p><p>I've got the power now to do</p><p>The march of the Black Queen</p><p>My life is in your hands I'll fo and I'll fie</p><p>I'll be what you make me I'll do what you like</p><p>I'll</p><p>be a bad boy I'll be your bad boy</p><p>I'll do the march of the Black Queen</p><p>Ah ah ah ah ah</p><p></p><p>Walking true to style she's vulgar abuse and vile</p><p>The Black Queen tattoes all her pies</p><p>She boils and she bakes</p><p>And she never dots her I's</p><p>La la la la la la la la la la la la</p><p>La la la la la</p><p></p><p>Forget your sing-a-longs and your lullabies</p><p>Surrender to the city of the fireflies</p><p>Dance with the devil in beat with the band</p><p>To hell with all you hand in hand</p><p>But now it's time to be gone</p><p>La la la la forever forever</p><p>Ah ah ah ah ah</p><p><strong>Funny How Love Is</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Funny how love is everywhere just look and see</p><p>Funny how love is anywhere you're bound to be</p><p>Funny how love is every song in every key</p><p>Funny how love is comming home in time for tea</p><p>Funny funny funny oh</p><p>Funny how love is the end of lies</p><p>When the truth begins tomorrow comes</p><p>Tomorrow brings love</p><p>In the shape of things</p><p>That's what love is that's what love is</p><p></p><p>Funny how love can break your heart so suddenly</p><p>Funny how love came tumbling down with Adam and Eve</p><p>Funny how love is running wild and feeling free</p><p>Funny hoe love is comming home in time for tea</p><p>Funny funny funny oh</p><p>>From the earth below to the heavens above</p><p>That's how far and funny is love</p><p>At any time anywhere</p><p>If you gotta make love do it everywhere</p><p>That's what love is that's what love is</p><p></p><p>Funny how love is everywhere just look and see</p><p>Funny how love is anywhere you're bound to be</p><p>Funny how love is every song in every key</p><p>Funny how love is when you gotta hurry</p><p>'Cause you're late for tea</p><p>Funny funny funny oh</p><p>Funny how love is tomorrow comes tomorrow brings</p><p>Tomorrow brings love in the shape of things</p><p>At any time anywhere</p><p>If you gotta make love do it everywhere</p><p>That's what love is that't what love is</p><p><strong>Seven Seas Of Rhye</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Fear me you lords and lady preachers</p><p>I descend upon your earth from the skies</p><p>I command your very souls you unbelievers</p><p>Bring before me what is mine</p><p>The seven seas of Rhye</p><p></p><p>Can you hear me you peers and privy councillors</p><p>I stand before you naked to the eyes</p><p>I will destroy any man who dares abuse my trust</p><p>I swear that y</p><p>ou'll be mine</p><p>At the seven seas of Rhye</p><p></p><p>Sister I live and lie for you</p><p>Mister do and I'll die</p><p>You are mine I possess you</p><p>Belong [or Make love] to you forever</p><p></p><p>Storm the master marathon I'll fly through</p><p>By flash and thunder fire I'll survive</p><p>I'll survive I'll survive</p><p>Then I'll defy the laws of nature</p><p>And come out alive</p><p>Begone with you you shod and shady senators</p><p>Give out [or you] the good and leave out the bad evil cries</p><p>I challenge the mighty titan and his troubadours</p><p>And with a smile</p><p>I'll take you to the seven seas of Rhye</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Floyd, post: 711, member: 1"] [B]Father To Son[/B] 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 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 soney 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 you ear From father to son Funny you don't hear A single word that I say But my letter to you Will stay by my side Through 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 [B]White Queen (As It Began)[/B] 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 May lady soon will stir this way In sorrow known The white queen walks And the night grows pale Stars of lovingness in her hair Needing 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 love the footsteps that she made And when see 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 friends goodbye No tears in my eyes So sad it ends as it began [B]Some Day One Day[/B] 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 he 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 someday one day We'll come home [B]The Loser In The End[/B] 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 who 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 everywhere To just one mother's 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 choose their new shoes That's not far to bend You're Ma on whom they can always depend ooh ooh [B]Ogre Battle[/B] Now once upon a time An old man told me a fable When the piper is gone And the soup is cold upon the table And if the black crow fl ies To find a new destination That is the sign Come tonight Come to the ogre site Come to ogre battle fight He gives a great big cry And he can swallow up the ocean With 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 ogre battle fight Ah ah ah ah ah The ogre en are still inside The two way mirror mountain You gotta keep down Right out of site You can't see in but they can see out Keep a look out The ogre men are comming out >From the two way mirror mountain They're running up behind And they're comming all about Can't go east 'cause you gotta go south Ogre men are going home The great big fight is over Bugle blow that trumpet cry Ogre Battle lives for ever more You can come along You can come along Come to ogre battle [B]The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke[/B] 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 sentorial 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 can we see the master stroke What a quaere fellow The ostler stares with hands on his knees Come on mister feller Crack it open if you please [B]Nevermore[/B] (Mercury) There's no living in my life anymore The seas have gone dry And the rain's stopped falling Please don't you cry anymore Can't you see Listen to the breeze And whisper to me please Don't seed me to the path of nevermore Even in the valley's down 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? Why did you deceive me? You sent me to the path of nevermore When you say you didn't love me anymore Ah ah nevermore nevermore [B]The March Of The Black Queen[/B] 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 I go? Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah You've never seen nothing like it No never in you're life Like going up to heaven And then coming back alive Let me tell you all about it Oooh give a little time to choose Water babies singing in a lily pool delight Blue powder monkeys praying in the dead of the 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 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 little 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 Each little bit of love and joy In each and every man lies a man And very soon he'll deceive and discover But even till 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 tattoes 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 with the devil in beat with the band To hell with all you hand in hand But now it's time to be gone La la la la forever forever Ah ah ah ah ah [B]Funny How Love Is[/B] 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 comming home in time for tea Funny funny funny oh Funny how love is the end of lies When the truth begins tomorrow comes 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 and feeling free Funny hoe love is comming 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 Funny how love is tomorrow 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't what love is [B]Seven Seas Of Rhye[/B] Fear me you lords 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 y ou'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 [or Make love] 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 [or you] the good and 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 [/QUOTE]
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