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From: thoth@tellab3.UUCP (Marcus Hall)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Science Fiction in Music
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 18:30:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 18:30:47 1985
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The song by Queen is called '39.  It is on the album "A Night at the Opera".
At least most of the words go like this:

In the year of '39, assembled here the volunteers
 In the days when the lands were few.
There the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn,
 Sweetest sight ever seen.

And the night followed day, and the storytellers say
 of the score brave souls inside,
Through many lonely day sailed across the milky sea,
 N're 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, little darling went away,
 but my love this cannot be.
Oh so many years have gone though I'm older but a year,
 your mother's eyes, from your eyes, cry to me.

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.

Don't you hear my call, though you're many years away,
 Don't you hear me calling you.
All your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand,
 For my life, still ahead, pity me.


It's a favorite of many people I know.  I didn't expect something like
this from Queen, but supposedly Brian May, I believe, who wrote the song
dabbles into astronomy.

marcus hall
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