Oooh yeah! Get your party gown, get your pigtail down
And get your heart beatin' baby
Got my timin' right, I got my act all tight
It's gotta be tonight my little schoolbabe

Your mamma says you don't your daddy says you won't
And I'm boilin' up inside
There's no way I'm gonna lose out this time- oh no

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down
Lock your daddy out of doors, I don't need him nosin' around
Tie your mother down, tie your mother down
Give me all your love tonight

You're such a dirty louse, go get outta my house
That's all I ever get from your- family ties
In fact I don't think I ever heard
A single little civil word from those guys
But you know I don't give a light
I'm gonna make out all right
I've got a sweetheart hand to put a stop to all that
Snipin' an' grousin' goin' on all night

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down
Take your little brother swimmin' with a brick- that's all right
Tie your mother down - yeah yeah - tie your mother down
Or you ain't no friend of mine - ooh no friend of mine

Ooh, your mammy and your daddy gonna plague me till I die
They can't understand it, I'm just a peace lovin' guy

Ooh, tie your mother down, tie your mother down
Get that big big big big big big daddy out of doors
Tie your mother down- yeah tie your mother down
Give me all your love tonight- all your love tonight

Give me every inch of your love- ooh all your love tonight
Yeah, gotta get my timin' right hey ooh, all your love- tie your mother down

Tie Your Mother Down este un exemplu clasic de hard-rock si un exemplu clasic de umor in stilul lui Brian. Partitura de chitara este foarte bogata si performanta vocala a lui Freddie este memorabila.

Daca pretextul este iubirea careia i se opune familia fetei ("your mama says you don't, your daddy says you won't", "I don't think I've ever heard a single little civil word from those guys"), spre enervarea personajului ("I'm boilin'up inside"), solutia este cel putin una savuroasa si exprimarea este irezistibil de comica: "tie your mother down, and your big, big, big daddy out of doors", "take your little brother swimming with a brick", pentru a-si reusi obiectivul: "give me all your love tonight (give me every inch of your love!)". Ceea ce sporeste efectul comic este tonul inocent al expunerii: "I've got a sweetheart hand to put a stop to all that", "I don't think...", culminand cu: "why can't they understand I'm just a peace lovin'guy?". Videoclipul il prezinta pe Freddie intr-un halat alb, de baie, in contrast cu un Brian statuar, imbracat in negru.

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