Queen Top Ten: Tie Your Mother Down (#8)

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What am I doing up this early? Physical therapy in an hour, and I have to put my winnings from Putt Putt in the bank (ha, just $20 for second). I’m not going anywhere without waking YOU up with a rocking tune from the Hall of Fame legends Queen. Here’s something that nobody will mistake for an Air Supply song. #8: Tie Your Mother Down Dr. May wrote this while working on his Ph.D. He said he sang “tie your mother down” as a “lyric filler” joke, intending to put something more substantive there later. Freddie Mercury liked that line and urged him to keep it. Later, Mercury (hopefully) joked Brian was trying to one-up him after Freddie wrote “Death on Two Legs.” Yeah, there’s another “politically incorrect” song title coming up on the countdown. Meanwhile, rock out! Tie Your Mother Down Written by Brian May From A Day At the Races, 1976 You’re such a dirty louse: