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Aztec Camera

Queen's Tattoos

Release date: 1987

From High Land, Hard Rain
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"Queen's Tattoos" is a track by Aztec Camera, from the album High Land, Hard Rain, released 1987. Full lyrics are available below.

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Aztec Camera

Aztec Camera

Lyrics

Queen's Tattoos

[Verse 1]

Here come a million Johnny Yens again

Hard pushed, hard bitten, that's a show

They've got their tickets and they're spying out

For somewhere safe where they can go

Like a big black train they're coming through (Whoo whoo)

[Chorus]

Singing, "Hey!

We do the queen's tattoos"

Singing, "Hey!

We do the queen's tattoos"

You must have seen our scene

We've been on the news

Singing, "Hey!

We do the queen's tattoos"

[Verse 2]

That kind of love gets all the biggest licks

From Cookes and Fry and Mills and Boon

But it's got no guts, it's got no big kicks

My love and I will kill it soon

You gotta melt your guns, they're playing our tune

[Chorus]

Singing, "Hey!

We do the queen's tattoos"

Singing, "Hey!

We do the queen's tattoos"

You must have seen our scene

We've been on the news

Singing, "Hey!

We do the queen's tattoos"

[Verse 2]

My love and I will kill it soon

You gotta melt your guns, they're playing our tune

[Chorus]

Singing, "Hey!

We do the queen's tattoos"

Singing, "Hey!

We do the queen's tattoos"

You must have seen our scene

We've been on the news

Singing, "Hey!

We do the queen's tattoos"

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Track details

From High Land, Hard Rain

1987
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Album
High Land, Hard Rain
High Land, Hard Rain
Aztec Camera
Release year
1987
  1. —We Could Send Letters
  2. —The Boy Wonders
  3. —The Bugle Sounds Again
  4. —Lost Outside the Tunnel
  5. —Down the Dip
  6. —Release
  7. —Back on Board
  8. —Haywire
  9. —Orchid Girl
  10. —Queen's Tattoos
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Aztec Camera — Queen's Tattoos

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