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[[File:Thequeenisdead.jpg | thumb | right | Cover art]]
[[File:The queen is dead single sleeve.jpg | thumb | right | Cover art]]
{| id="songbox" class="infbox wikitable" cellspacing="2"
{{Discobox
! colspan="2" | THE SMITHS Song
| Name = The Queen Is Dead
|-
| Total Length = 6:24 (Album version)<br>6:06 (No Intro)<br>7:29 (Demo)<br>3:36 (Instrumental demo)
| Name
| Recorded = Winter 1985
| {{{Name |<span class="unknown">The Queen Is Dead</span>}}}
| Writer = Morrissey/Marr
|-
| Producer = [[Morrissey]]<br>[[Johnny Marr]]
| Album/Single
| Mastered =
| {{{Album |<span class="unknown">[[The Queen Is Dead]]</span>}}}{{
| Art = Cover star: [[Margherita Caruso]] in "[[Il vangelo secondo Matteo]]" (1964)
#if:{{{Track |}}}
| Vinyl Etching = None
| <span class="small">&#32;({{{Track}}})</span>
| Publisher = [[Warner Bros. Records]]
| Format = 7" Vinyl, 12" Vinyl
| Release = June 1986, 16 June 2017 (single to mark 31st anniversary of [[The Queen Is Dead]] album release and 2017 re-issue)
| Chart = UK #85<br>UK Vinyl Chart #1
| Type = Single
| ArtistType = The Smiths
| Previous = The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (Demo Mix)
| PreviousLink = The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (single)
| Next =
| NextLink =
}}
}}
|-
[[Category:The Smiths Lyrics]]  
| Length
| {{{Length |<span class="unknown">6:24</span>}}}
|-
| Recorded
| {{{Recorded |<span class="unknown">Winter 1985</span>}}}
|-
| Writer
| {{{Writer |<span class="unknown">Morrissey/Marr</span>}}}
|-
| Producer
| {{{Producer |<span class="unknown">[[Morrissey]]<br>[[Johnny Marr]]</span>}}}
|}
[[Category:The Smiths Lyrics]]


==Information==
==Information==
* An unedited version of this song appears on [[The Smiths – Unreleased Demos & Instrumentals (LP bootleg)|The Smiths – Unreleased Demos & Instrumentals]] bootleg LP.
==Track list==
===7" Vinyl Picture Disc===
UK & Europe - [Warner Music UK Ltd. – QID2017]
{{tracklist
| 01 = The Queen Is Dead
| 01link = The Queen Is Dead (single)
| 01-duration = 6:05 (Morrissey/Marr)
| 02 = I Keep Mine Hidden
| 02link = I Keep Mine Hidden
| 02-duration = 1:57 (Morrissey/Marr)
}}
===12" Vinyl===
UK & Europe - [Warner Bros. Records – 12QID2017]
{{tracklist
| 01 = The Queen Is Dead
| 01link = The Queen Is Dead (single)
| 01-duration = 6:05 (Morrissey/Marr)
| 02 = Oscillate Wildly
| 02link = Oscillate Wildly
| 02-duration = 3:26 (Morrissey/Marr)
| 03 = Money Changes Everything
| 03link = Money Changes Everything
| 03-duration = 4:10 (Marr)
| 04 = The Draize Train
| 04link = The Draize Train
| 04-duration = 5:08 (Marr)
}}
==Video==
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3UMjNUqFM</youtube>
* A Film by [[Derek Jarman]]


== Lyrics ==
== Lyrics ==


{{lyrics
<poem>
|
Oh! Take me back to dear old Blighty,
Put me on the train for London Town,
Take me anywhere,
Drop me anywhere,
Liverpool, Leeds or Birmingham
'Cause I don't care,
I should like to see my...


}}
By land, by sea.
 
Farewell... to this land's cheerless marshes
Hemmed in like a boar between archers1
Her very Lowness with her head in a sling
I'm truely sorry but it sounds like a wonderful thing
 
"I say, Charles, don't you ever crave
To appear on the front of the Daily Mail
Dressed in your Mother's bridal veil?"
And so I checked all the registered historical facts
And I was shocked into shame to discover
How I'm the 18th pale descendent
Of some old queen or other
 
Oh has the world changed or have I changed?
Oh has the world changed or have I changed?
As some 9-year old tough who peddles drugs
(I swear to God, I swear)
I never even knew what drugs were
 
So I broke into the Palace
With a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said: "Eh, I know and you cannot sing!"
I said: "That's nothing, you should hear me play piano!"
 
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
But when you're tied to your Mother's apron
No one talks about castration
 
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
Like Love and Law and Poverty
These are the things that kill me
 
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
But the rain that flattens my hair
These are the things that kill me
 
All their life, they make love and then pierce through me
Pass the Pub who saps your body
And the church who'll snatch your money
The Queen is dead, boys
And it's so lonely on a limb


==Personnel==
Pass the Pub that wrecks your body
And the church - all they want is your money
The Queen is dead, boys
And it's so lonely on a limb


Life is very long when you're lonely
Life is very long when you're lonely
Life is very long when you're lonely
Life is very long when you're lonely
</poem>


==Live History==
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