We've all heard songs a 1000 times,   so what songs flummox you on lyrics? 

  mine is Queen of fools .......seriously, i've known this record for 40 odd years,  but the only lyrics i understand are the 1st line,   then the bit where she sings 'well now look at me and you will see' ...  i also think i hear 'lonely' in there somewhere as well ,

   can someone please type the lyrics out for me?   

 

  what songs spring to mind for you lot ?

1 hour ago, IanP said:

 can someone please type the lyrics out for me?   

WELL I'M A
QUEEN OF FOOLS
OR SO THEY SAY
YES I HAVE
YES I CAN'T BELIEVE
IT WAS ONLY YESTERDAY
BUT NOW LOOK AT ME
AND YOU WILL SEE
A LONELY BUT PROUD
QUEEN OF FOOLS
AND I'M THE FOOL
THEY TALK ABOUT
IT'S MY MIND
THAT YOUR HEART
CAN'T HAVE
SO NOW LOOK AT ME
AND YOU WILL SEE
A LONELY BUT PROUD
QUEEN OF FOOLS
WELL IT'S HARD
SO HARD
I LOVED YOU SO
YES YOU ARE
THAT CAT
WHO KNOWS
YOU FINALLY LET GO
SO NOW TAKE A BOW
AND WE'LL DRINK
UP THE TOAST
TO THE LONELY
BUT PROUD
QUEEN OF FOOLS
AND I'M THE FOOL
THEY TALK ABOUT
IT'S MY MIND
THAT YOUR HEART
CAN'T HAVE
SO NOW LOOK AT ME
AND YOU WILL SEE
A LONELY BUT PROUD
QUEEN OF FOOLS
AND I'M THE FOOL
THEY TALK ABOUT

Edited March 16, 20196 yr by Shufflin
EDITED LOL DO THESE SOUND RIGHT?

22 minutes ago, shufflin said:

WELL I'M A
QUEEN OF FOOLS
OR SO THEY SAY
YES I HAVE
YES I CAN'T BELIEVE
IT WAS ONLY YESTERDAY
BUT NOW LOOK AT ME
AND YOU WILL SEE
A LONELY BUT PROUD
QUEEN OF FOOLS
AND I'M THE FOOL
THEY TALK ABOUT
IT'S MY MIND
THAT YOUR HEART
CAN'T HAVE
SO NOW LOOK AT ME
AND YOU WILL SEE
A LONELY BUT PROUD
QUEEN OF FOOLS
WELL IT'S HARD
SO HARD
I LOVED YOU SO
YES YOU ARE
THAT CATCH
TOO MUCH
YOU FINALLY LET GO
SO NOW LET'S BOND
AND WE'LL DRINK
UP THE TOAST
TO THE LONELY
BUT PROUD
QUEEN OF FOOLS
AND I'M THE FOOL
THEY TALK ABOUT
IT'S MY MIND
THAT YOUR HEART
CAN'T HAVE
SO NOW LOOK AT ME
AND YOU WILL SEE
A LONELY BUT PROUD
QUEEN OF FOOLS
AND I'M THE FOOL
THEY TALK ABOUT

Only Words but my god are they powerful.  One of the greatest soul records ever written 

Steve 

I don’t know all the lyrics to the song, but some of the stuff written above looks like gibberish to me (Yes, you are that catch too much. So now let’s bond and we’ll drink up the toast. It’s my mind that your heart can’t have) 

Some of the lyrics definitely in the song, but not quoted in the post above are:

‘yes I’m the one, that your heart left out’

also

‘Well you hurt the heart that loved you so,

yes the one that cared the most, you finally let go,

so now take a bow and we’ll propose a toast,

to the lonely but proud queen of fools’

 

 

I agree but there you go, post out the proper lyrics then as OP asked?

Edited the lyrics seem about right now ?? 🙂 can't believe I've sat here doing this but staying in anyway listening to mixcloud while missus is binging tv 🙂

33 minutes ago, shufflin said:

I agree but there you go, post out the proper lyrics then as OP asked?

As I said in my original response ‘I don’t know all the lyrics to the song, but’ I was only trying to be of help!

16 minutes ago, Soul16 said:

but’ I was only trying to be of help!

look at the edited lyrics how would you change 'em then?

when you call out "gibberish" maybe post the non gibberish version?

Edited March 16, 20196 yr by Shufflin

is this of any help?

Barbara Mills - Queen Of Foolsxyz.mp3

I have never understood a word of this and believe me I have tried many times over the years, could anyone even give me a clue what it’s about, I have this recird but can’t understand why I bought it.....                                    https://youtu.be/_p7yAXMeyq8

1 hour ago, ric-tic said:

I have never understood a word of this and believe me I have tried many times over the years, could anyone even give me a clue what it’s about, I have this recird but can’t understand why I bought it.....                                    https://youtu.be/_p7yAXMeyq8

tried

gave up

 

 

 

Edited March 16, 20196 yr by Shufflin

Took me many years of listening before the penny dropped that Jerry Williams was sing "You're my alpha and omega, there's nothing left to say".

Dx

14 minutes ago, DaveNPete said:

Took me many years of listening before the penny dropped that Jerry Williams was sing "You're my alpha and omega, there's nothing left to say".

Dx

me too.....  it was by chance that a late friend said  " whats the song with Alpha and Omega" in it,    i had'nt a clue until he started singing it 

1 hour ago, ric-tic said:

I have never understood a word of this and believe me I have tried many times over the years, could anyone even give me a clue what it’s about, I have this recird but can’t understand why I bought it.....                                    https://youtu.be/_p7yAXMeyq8

I just googled and saw that she's from  Shreveport, Louisiana, perhaps she's singing some of it in  Cajun French or  Louisiana Creole?

I have a record by Lonette,called Mind Intruder,the flip is entitled Redurtni Dnim where she "sings" the A side backwards .I'm not sure whether she starts at the beginning and "sings" each word backwards or the whole thing is just reversed. Either way it's pretty much unintelligible.

12 hours ago, shufflin said:

look at the edited lyrics how would you change 'em then?

when you call out "gibberish" maybe post the non gibberish version?

As I said in my initial response, I don't know all the lyrics, in RED is the bit I've never been able to determine correctly.

 

So here, just for you, are the (mostly) non gibberish lyrics :

 

(She’s the queen of fools, she’s the queen of fools)

 

 Well I’m the queen of fools or so they say

Yes I have, yes I (caught the VD??) only yesterday

But now look at me and you will see

The lonely but proud queen of fools.

 

And I’m the fool they talk about

Yes, I’m the one that you’re heart left out

So now look at me and you will see

The lonely but proud queen of fools.

 

(She’s the queen of fools)

 

Well you hurt the heart that loved you so

Yes the one that cared the most, you finally let go

So now take a bow and we’ll propose a toast

To the lonely but proud queen of fools

I’m the fool they talk about.

 

Yes, I’m the one that you’re heart left out

So now look at me and you will see, the lonely but proud queen of fools

I’m the fool they talk about

Yes I’m the fool...

(Fade)

 

Yes I got that name only yesterday.

Brooks Brothers Looking for a woman 

Some so cool 

Some full o Jive 

Some even carry “whatcha call a butcher knife” 

eh?? I suppose it was a bit mad at times in 60s Detroit  

 

Edited March 17, 20196 yr by bonhsoulie
Added words

Skip to 1minute 22 seconds and figure this out:)

Artistic genius?

Ed

 

if you have Scratchy,    play it backwards,   it all makes sense then 

 thanks for all replies folks.    

I posted the same question about the second line of 'Queen of Fools' on here a few years ago and didn't get much by way of an answer........anyway since then i think i have cracked it ....here goes

Well I'm the Queen of Fools or so they say

Yes i had his love completely only yesterday  (could be held his love)

But now look at me.............

 

Play it, sing it, see what you think