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+ | Take good care of what you've got<br> | ||
+ | My father said to me<br> | ||
+ | As he puffed his pipe and baby B<br> | ||
+ | He dandled on his knee<br> | ||
+ | Don't fool with fools who'll turn away<br> | ||
+ | Keep all good company<br> | ||
+ | Oohoo oohoo<br> | ||
+ | Take care of those you call your own and keep good company<br> | ||
+ | <br> | ||
+ | Soon I grew and happy too<br> | ||
+ | My very good friends and me<br> | ||
+ | We'd play all day with Sally J<br> | ||
+ | The girl from number four<br> | ||
+ | And very soon I begged her<br> | ||
+ | Won't you keep me company?<br> | ||
+ | Oohoo oohoo, oohoo oohoo<br> | ||
+ | Come marry me for evermore<br> | ||
+ | We'll be good company<br> | ||
+ | <br> | ||
+ | Now marriage is an institution sure<br> | ||
+ | My wife and I our needs and nothing more<br> | ||
+ | All my friends by a year by and by disappeared<br> | ||
+ | But we're safe enough behind our door<br> | ||
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+ | I flourished in my humble trade my reputation grew<br> | ||
+ | The work devoured my waking hours but when my time was through<br> | ||
+ | Reward of all my efforts<br> | ||
+ | My own Limited Company<br> | ||
+ | I hardly noticed Sally as we parted company<br> | ||
+ | All through the years in the end it appears<br> | ||
+ | There was never really anyone but me<br> | ||
+ | Now I'm old I puff my pipe but no-one's there to see<br> | ||
+ | I ponder on the lesson of my life's insanity<br> | ||
+ | Take care of those you call your own<br> | ||
+ | And keep good company | ||
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Revision as of 19:52, 14 May 2007
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Queen TalksBrian May, 1983, Guitar Greats, BBC Radio One Yes its all guitar all those instruments. That was a little fetish of mine. I used to listen to Traditional Jazz quite a lot, in particular, the twenties revival stuff which wasn’t actually Traditional Jazz but more arranged stuff like The Temperance Seven who were recreating something which was popular in the twenties, sort of dance tunes really. I was very impressed by the way those arrangements were done, you know, the nice smooth sound and those lovely changes between chords. Because they were much more rich in chords than most modern songs are. So many chord changes in a short time, lots of intermingling parts. So I wanted to do one of those things and the song just happened to come out while I was plunking away a the ukulele and the song itself was no trouble to write at all. But actually doing the arrangements for the wind section, as it was supposed to be. There’s a guitar trumpet and a guitar clarinet and a guitar trombone and a sort of extra thing, I don’t really know what it was supposed to be (chuckles) on the top. I spent a lot of time doing those and to get the effect of the instruments I was doing one note at a time, with a pedal and building them up. So you can imagine how long it took. We experimented with the mikes and various little tiny amplifiers to get just the right sound. So I actually made a study of the kind of thing that those instruments could play so it would sound like those and get the authentic flavour. It was a bit of fun but, it was a serious serious bit of work in that a lot of time went into it. CoversRecorded by:
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