Procol Harum
Beyond
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Album: Procol Harum … plus! (1998), The Symphonic Music (1995),
+ many compilations including Secrets
of the Hive (2007), One Eye to the Future (2008), The
Best of – Then and Now (2010) |
Picture sleeve: many |
Taking
Notes and Stealing Quotes on this song |
Cover-version: many |
Words by The two
verses printed here in green are not both available on any official record but they have quite
often been heard in concert. Part of
verse three was (accidentally?) sung live on Top of the Pops in July
1967: story here [Roland from BtP notes: inspection of the
typescript in Gary Brooker's album compiling all Keith Reid's original lyrics
shows the order of the two 'extra' verses reversed, and reveals 'life',
not 'love', in the 'ocean bed' verse (which enriches the Shakespeare
quotation there in the same way as 'fandango' enriches Milton's 'light
fantastic' earlier in the song). These two facts were first published in my
liner note to Secrets
of the Hive – to which Keith and Gary have both
given the thumbs-up] Your chance (here) to
own a beautifully-printed lyric sheet for this song, signed and numbered by
the wordsmith himself |
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We skipped the light
fandango And so it was that later She said, 'There is no
reason She said,
'I'm home on shore leave,' If music be
the food of love [see note, left, about this verse + its opening] |
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