Queen - Ogre Battle - Queen II - Lyrics (1974) HQ

Queen:
Freddie Mercury
Brian May
John Deacon
Roger Taylor

ALBUM: "Queen II"
TRACK 06

Lyrics:
Now once upon a time
An old man told me a fable
When the piper is gone
And the soup is cold on your table
And if the black crow flies
To find a new destination
That is the sign

Come tonight
Come to the ogre site
Come to the ogre battle fight

He gives a great big cry
And he can swallow up the ocean
With a mighty tongue he catches flies
And the palm of his hand incredible size
One great big eye has a focus in your direction
Now the battle is on
Yeah yeah yeah!

Come tonight
Come to the ogre sight
Come to the ogre battle fight

Ah ah ah ah ah
The ogre men are still inside
The two way mirror mountain
Gotta keep down
Right out of sight
You can't see in but they can see out
Keep a look out
The ogre men are coming out
From the two way mirror mountain
They're running up behind
And they're coming all about
Can't go east 'cause you gotta go south

Ogre men are going home
The great big fight is over
Bugle blow that trumpet cry
Ogre battle lives for ever more
You can come along
You can come along
Come to ogre battle


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[kwhitney]

Hardest rocking of all the Queen albums!

[ЕвгенийЖидких-тб]

It is Queen best album. Best Queen song. Freddy is in best time. RIP.... Remember you forever!

[spaceboy]

The "fade in" and the "backward" vocal and guitar effects at the opening of this song are SO incredibly amazing and dramatic-Freddie definitely outdid himself when he came up with this one-absolute genius! This album is over thirty years old, and to this day I STILL never get tired of listening to it! R.I.P., Mr. Mercury! You are sorely missed!

[rabbitmaskedman]

I love when in the middle it hits that kick-ass riff.

[dookiekerplunk]

Love how the guitar is reversed (played backwards I mean) at the start. Just shows how inventive and diverse these guys are.

[King_Clark]

This totally needs to be in Shrek 5. If not, Dreamworks wasted a perfectly good opportunity to use this song.

[patricia]

Absolutely magic, still. Love the songs just flowing into each other on this album! Ogre Battle should have indeed been used in one of the Shrek movies! Queen still the very best ever!!

[godbluffvdgg]

Thanks so much for the upload...Queen 2 is an epic album! Ogre Battle is such a killer jam...40 years of loving it.

[newblastvideo]

One of Queen's live classics from 1973 to the Day at the Races tour in 1977. The stage act contained a great light show with pyrotechnics in the middle of the song.

[zmznzbzvzmznzb]

Still and will always be my favourite.

[jamiewarriorwarlordmccallu]

bad ass queen song pure metal magic. love it. feel like going on a battle to destory an ogre. magic track. surprised they never used this in a shrek movie.

[WinspearUltima]

I’m glad Enix named their game after this song.

[l.salisbury]

Thus, the birth of Speed Metal and Power Metal!! (Luv that eerie "backmasking" as the beginning!)

[The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

Proving Brian May is a proper guitar hero. The production effects on this are as good as anything the Beatles did

[aguinaldoferrer]

This gives me a strong Rush vive. I love it!

[vovindequasahi]

Pure metal. This entire album kicks so much ass. Queen kicked ass all the way to Jazz.

[billysheppard]

my favorite queen record, saw this band destroy the beacon theater, manhattan,

[jonmayer]

First time I heard this song was in April 1974 while peaking on Blue Microdot

[SgtHoplite]

There's a Strategy RPG called Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen which takes it's name from this song and March of the Black Queen, but it's rare as fuck unless you have a Wii with Virtual console.

[louismartin]

Shrek : WHAT IS QUEEN DOING IN MY SWAMP