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The Smiths - The Sound of The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead / Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty (medley)
The Sound of The Smiths
Disc 1
01. Hand in Glove
02. This Charming Man
03. What Difference Does It Make? (Peel sessions version)
04. Still Ill
05. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
06. William, It Was Really Nothing
07. How Soon Is Now? (12" version)
08. Nowhere Fast
09. Shakespeare's Sister
10. Barbarism Begins at Home (7" version)
11. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
12. The Headmaster Ritual
13. The Boy With the Thorn in His Side
14. Bigmouth Strikes Again
15. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
16. Panic
17. Ask
18. You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
19. Shoplifters of the World Unite
20. Sheila Take a Bow
21. Girlfriend in a Coma
22. I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
23. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
Disc 2
01. Jeane
02. Handsome Devil (live)
03. This Charming Man (New York vocal)
04. Wonderful Woman
05. Back to the Old House
06. These Things Take Time
07. Girl Afraid
08. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
09. Stretch Out and Wait
10. Oscillate Wildly
11. Meat Is Murder (live)
12. Asleep
13. Money Changes Everything
14. The Queen Is Dead / Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty (medley)
15. Vicar in a Tutu
16. Cemetry Gates
17. Half a Person
18. Sweet and Tender Hooligan
19. Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate demo)
20. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
21. What's the World? (live)
22. London (live)
Oh! Take me back to dear old Blighty,
Put me on the train for London Town,
Take me anywhere,
Drop me anywhere,
Liverpool, Leeds or Birmingham
'Cause I don't care,
I should like to see my...

By land, by sea.

Farewell... to this land's cheerless marshes
Hemmed in like a boar between archers1
Her very Lowness with her head in a sling
I'm truely sorry but it sounds like a wonderful thing
"I say, Charles, don't you ever crave
To appear on the front of the Daily Mail
Dressed in your Mother's bridal veil?"
And so I checked all the registered historical facts
And I was shocked into shame to discover
How I'm the 18th pale descendent
Of some old queen or other
Oh has the world changed or have I changed?
Oh has the world changed or have I changed?
As some 9-year old tough who peddles drugs
(I swear to God, I swear)
I never even knew what drugs were
So I broke into the Palace
With a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said: "Eh, I know and you cannot sing!"
I said: "That's nothing, you should hear me play piano!"
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
But when you're tied to your Mother's apron
No one talks about castration
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
Like Love and Law and Poverty
These are the things that kill me
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
But the rain that flattens my hair
These are the things that kill me

All their life, they make love and then pierce through me

Pass the Pub who saps your body
And the church who'll snatch your money
The Queen is dead, boys
And it's so lonely on a limb
Pass the Pub that wrecks your body
And the church - all they want is your money
The Queen is dead, boys
And it's so lonely on a limb2

Life is very long when you're lonely
Life is very long when you're lonely
Life is very long when you're lonely
Life is very long when you're lonely