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Bohemian Rhapsody
Mark Brymer arrangement
Music by Freddie Mercury for Queen 1975
LYRICS (voices in brackets)
(all) Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
Together (Sop) I'm just a poor boy, (Alt, Ten, Bas) poor, poor boy
(S) I need no sympathy (A,T,B) because I'm (all) easy come, easy go
(Choir 1) Little high, (Choir 2) little low
Together (S) Any way the wind blows (A,T,B) Oo, the wind blows
(all) doesn't really matter to me, to me.
One bar instr.
(all) Mama, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
(S,A,T) Mama oo (T) the wind blows (B) any way (T,B) the wind blows oo
(S) I don't wanna die, (all) I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.
4 bars instr.
(all) I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning me
(S) Galileo (T,B) Galileo, (S) Galileo (T,B) Galileo, (S,A) Galileo (T,B) Galileo Figaro,
(S) Magnifico (A) co (T) co (B) co.
(T,B) I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
(all) He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.
One bar instr.
(T,B) Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
(A,T,B) Bismillah! (S) No! (A,T,B) We will not let you go (S) Let him go!
(A,T,B) Bismillah! We will not let you go (S) Let him go!
(A,T,B) Bismillah! We will not let you go (S) Let me go!
(A,T,B) Will not let you go (S) Let me go!
(A,T,B) Will not let you go. Let me go. (S) oh, oh, (A) oh
(all) No, no, no, no, no, no, no
(T,B) Oh mamma mia, mamma mia (all) mamma mia, let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.
4 bars instr.
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(all) So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
One bar instr.
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh__ baby__ can't do this to me, baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
2 bars instr.
Oo_____ oo yeah, oo yeah.
2 bars instr.​
(all) Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me______
3 bars instr.
(S,T) Any way the wind blows.
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SOPRANO (slower than marked)
TENOR (slower than marked)
ALL VOICES (slower than marked)
SOP and ALT (slower than marked)
ALL VOICES as oboes (slower than marked)
ALTO (slower than marked)
BASS (slower than marked)
ALTO and BASS (slower than marked)
TENOR and BASS (slower than marked)
ACCOMPANIMENT (as marked)