Queen - Sail Away Sweet Sister (Excerpt of Take 1 & Take 2 With Guide Vocal)

This version of Sail Away Sweet Sister comes from the 2011 remasters by Bob Ludwig and was released on June 27th, 2011 in the UK. There is a 16 second instrumental excerpt of an take, which is musically similar to the album version, but more improvised, before the Guide Vocal comes in, so presumably comes from the same recording session. Another interesting gem from 2011’s Deluxe edition CDs, this first take of Sail Away Sweet Sister is an interesting work-in-progress version of the song. According to the liner notes, this take features all four members on instrumentation. Brian provides a guide vocal. Freddie’s middle vocal part had yet to be made part of the song at this point. Written by: Brian May Produced by: Queen and Mack Musicians: Brian May - lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, synthesizer Freddie Mercury - piano, backing and bridge vocals John Deacon - bass guitar Roger Taylor - drums, backing vocals ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lyrics: Freddie: OK, one, two, three, four (Brian: Turn me down a bit) (Ad-libbed lyrics) ain’t my baby (Ad-libbed lyrics) All that you love my baby All that you had to stay Love (ad-libbed lyrics) (Ad-libbed lyrics) Love don’t you want me baby All that you’ve gone away, oh Sail away sweet sister Gone across the sea Gone and find nobody (Unknown lyrics) and as hell as me Sail away for ever Call me when you do Love you now sweet sister Sail on back to me Wooh, oh, little darling baby (Ad-libbed lyrics) (Ad-libbed lyrics) Happiest time of all (Ad-libbed lyrics) (Ad-libbed lyrics) hurt you may (Ad-libbed lyrics) All that you had to leave Sail away sweet sister Take away my love Sail across the sea But you ain’t got the heart of me Heart makes a fool of me Call me when you do Sail away sweet sister Sail on back to me Oooh, oh, oh, oh Freddie: Well I think I know it perfectly know