Fat Bottomed Girls

Whenever I have ever seen the lyrics for Fat Bottomed Girls they always say 'I've been singing with my band, across the wire across the land'

But its 'across the water 'cross the land'

I was compelled to post this as that's even how the lyric is on that rather good chord book someone has just posted.

Easy to hear when the vocal is isolated.

Just sayin

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Yeah, I can hear "water" just fine when listening to the track. How does "wire" even make any sense?

I always hear it as "across the wide across the land"

It's definitely water. What does the actual album sleeve say?

Machines (or 'Back to Humans')

Lirics from the album sleeve...

When the machines take over
It ain't no place for[b] you and me[/b]

But i can hear Freddie saying...

When the machines take over
It ain't no place for [b]rock and roll
[/b]
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Sorry for my bad english! By the way, "the books on the table!"

There are no lyric sheets in the (original) jazz release
Maybe that's the cause of confusion
Only Jazz and Queen 1 didn't have lyric sheets (on vinyl release back then.....when I had hair and the world was so much simpler, oh well)

One if my faves is "tossers in my closet" from 'Life Is Real'

In life is real, I thought it was torsos?

That's my point (in a thread about misheard lyrics) - it is "torsos" but sounds like 'tossers'

What's a tosser?

I'm not British and wish to keep the discussion open here rather than simply look it up

Speaking of misheard lyrics. I never heard that "God works in mysterious ways" bit from one vision. Reading it on here made me think it was an inside joke.... a snipe hunt

I've always heard it as 'torsos'. A tosser, literally speaking, is a wanker - someone who masturbates a lot. It's used very broadly though, like when I call someone a wanker, I'm not literally implying that they have issues with chronic masturbation.

I'm not home at the moment but I'm gonna look at some of the lyric booklets from the 2011 remasters when I get there.

I always thought that the "across the wire" referred to radio - "wireless" being an english word for radio. It could be either on the recording, I can't tell.
On any live version I know, it's always "water".

Misheard lyrics is one thing, miss pronounced lyrics is another.

I swear during Spread Your Wings, Freddie sings...

'You've got no real ambition, you won't get wery far'

wery as opposed to 'very'

Yep, I started this post and it is nothing to do with misheard lyrics, just 'miscommunicated' lyrics. I like Spread Your Wings because it includes a crack in Freddie's voice 'Sammy boy dont you k'crack'now who you are'

Love it.