tie your mother down

• a day at the races albümünün ilk şarkısı olan klasik bir queen parçası..şarkının açılışı albümdeki parçalardan white manin başlarındaki gitar solosu ve teo torriatenin kapanış müziğinin kombinasyonu ile oluşturulmuştur.
• ooh, ooh yeah, ooooh yeah
  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 mamma says you don't
  your daddy says you won't
  and i'm boilin' up inside
  ain't no way i'm gonna lose out this time - oh no
  
  tie your mother down
  tie your mother down
  lock your daddy out of doors
  i don't need him nosin' 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
  snipin' an' grousin' goin' on all night
  
  tie your mother down
  tie your mother down
  take your little brother swimmin'
  with a brick (that's all right)
  tie your mother down - yeah yeah
  tie your mother down
  or you ain't no friend of mine - ooh no friend of mine -
  no no, ow, yeah, bad guy
  
  ooh, your mammy and your daddy gonna
  plague me till i die
  they can't understand it, i'm just a
  peace lovin' guy
  
  ooh, tie your mother down
  tie your mother down
  get that big big big big big big daddy out of doors
  tie your mother down - yeah
  tie your mother down
  give me all your love tonight
  all your love tonight
  
  give me every inch of your love - ooh
  all your love tonight
  yeah, gotta get my timin' right hey
  ooh, all your love
  tie your mother down
• gerek albümünde gerek konserlerde tartışmasız en çok gaza getiren şarkıdır. bir diğeri için (bkz: now i m here)
• lynch mob tarafindan da coverlanmis bir sarkidir.
• freddie mercury tribute concert'de def leppard'in solisti ve slash tarafindan icra edilmistir.
• slash'in en cok sevdigi queen sarkisidir.
• rock n roll tarihinin en akılda kalan rifflerinden biridir.
• dile bir girdimi cikmiyor namussuz. ana riff kadar nakarattaki vokaller de akilda kalici.
• bir brian may eseri.
• deli gibi gaz bir la guns coverı da bulunan, majestelerinin bir başka mucizesi!