Roger Taylor - Miscellaneous Songs
This page includes song details of miscellaneous Roger Taylor recordings which cannot be included on other album pages.
I
Wanna Testify | Turn On The TV (1977)
Felix & Arty - Woman, You're So Beautiful (2006) (on seperate page)
SOS All Stars - Drum
Extravaganza
Unreleased Tracks
(details on the Unreleased Solo
Tracks page)
Olympic Theme
(1988)
Singles
I
Wanna Testify
Only available on 7". Written by Roger Taylor / George
Clinton. Original version 3:44
This track is actually a reworked cover version, original by
Parliament, reached no 20 in USA in 1967. However, the music is
completely different, and the only retained lyrics are just 'I
Wanna Testify'.
Lyrics:
(Do wop, do wop, yeah)
(Do wop, do wop)
(Do wop, do wop, yeah)
(Do wop, do wop)
(Do wop, do wop, yeah) we met each other introduced by her
brother
(Do wop, do wop) a cat I'd known all my life
(Do wop, do wop, yeah) partying and dancing, moonlight and
romancing
(Do wop, do wop) soon to be husband and wife
(Do wop, do wop, yeah) my friends call me crazy, her folks call
her lazy
(Do wop, do wop) but our love counts for life
(Do wop, do wop, yeah) if we stick together the pressures we
would weather
(Do wop, do wop) not knowing we were in for a fall
Women and drinking, I'm in love (loving and thinking)
Will do it to you everytime
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Women and drinking, I'm in love (loving and thinking)
Will do it to you everytime
Find yourself going down, down, down, down
I'm going down, ah, ah, ah
I'm going down, down, down, down, down, down, ah, ah, ah
Ow, I just wanna testify
What the women don't owe to me
I just wanna testify
What the women don't owe to me
(Do wop, do wop, yeah)
(Do wop, do wop, yeah) we had a boy, my pride and joy
(Do wop, do wop) I took a job day and night
(Do wop, do wop, yeah) tired and wired, one day I got fired
(Do wop, do wop) that's when we started to fight
(Do wop, do wop, yeah) with time on his hands, a man ain't a man
(Do wop, do wop) and all he loves he starts to neglect
(Do wop, do wop, yeah) I didn't go far, went straight to the bar
(Do wop, do wop) and drank away my self respect
Women and drinking, loving and thinking
Will do it to you everytime
Women and drinking, I'm in love (loving and thinking)
Will do it to you everytime
Find yourself going down, down, down, down
I'm going down, ah, ah, ah
I'm going down, down, down, down, down, down, ah, ah, ah
Ow, I just wanna testify
What the women don't owe to me
I just wanna testify
What the women don't owe to me
(Do wop, do wop, yeah)
(Do wop, do wop) let me get on back to my story now
(Do wop, do wop, yeah) care about no-one but my wife and my son
(Do wop, do wop) that's when I started to roam
(Do wop, do wop, yeah) bar room to them, it happened so soon
(Do wop, do wop) I found myself out of home
(Do wop, do wop, yeah) she went back to her mother, I fought with
her brother
(Do wop, do wop) and in my heart I know I was wrong
(Do wop, do wop, yeah) please pay attention to the words that I
mention
(Do wop, do wop) and listen to the moral of the song
Ow
(Do wop, do wop, yeah) I just, I just
(Do wop, do wop) I just wanna testify
Ow
Yeah
Turn
On The TV
Only available on 7" as
B-Side to 'I Wanna Testify'. Written by Roger Taylor. Original
version 3:22
Lyrics:
Ahhh
Oh
Collect your senses and your wits
And what you've left on your mind
All the so called modern caring virtues
Are likely to change, you'll find
So lets turn on the TV, wake up
You know what - that sounds better it's all for free
Turn on the TV as it takes a horizontal hold
On your energy
Just gotta get, gotta get, gotta go, gotta get up out of here
Gotta get, gotta get, gotta go, gotta get up out of here
Go to the place over the hill
Where the grass is greener
Where the life is sweeter
And all the time we know
That it never is, that it never is
That it never is, that it never is
And it's very likely that we never will
Turn on the TV - find myself a-talking to
One of those quadraphonic pioneers
Turn on the TV - he said give up that stereo
Boy I said I've only got two ears
Turn on the TV - things ain't so black and white
When grey is the colour of my best friend's sweater
Turn on the TV - and relay some greatest circulated idea, yeah
Just gotta get, gotta get, gotta go, gotta get up out of here
Gotta get, gotta get, gotta go, gotta get up out of here
Go to the place over the hill
Where the grass is greener
Where the life is sweeter
And all the time we know
That it never is, that it never is
That it never is, that it never is
And it's very likely that we never will
Drum
Extravaganza
Written by Roger Taylor.
Length 4:04.
This track was performed by the SOS All Stars to open the Live
Earth concert on 7 July 2007 at Wembley Stadium. It features
Roger, Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters) and Chad Smith (Red Hot
Chilli Peppers), with many other drummers.
The track features 'SOS' in morse code throughout, and
incorporates part of 'We Will Rock You' into the end
section of the song.