I’m a very big Pink Floyd fan, have nearly all their albums, the whole bit, but there’s this one song that I’m uncertain of the lyrics on. This is primarily because I’ve them represented differently on various sources, including the ones that I would normally consider to have fairly accurate information.
The song is an early track called Julia Dream. The line I’m unsure of is in the chorus; it’s the line that proceeds, queen of all my dreams. I’ve seen it related as at least three different things and I don’t know who to believe.
If anyone could tell me for sure what this lyric is, that’d be great. Thanks.
I’ve always heard the line as “Julia Dream, dreamboat queen, queen of all my dreams.” That’s also how it appears in a sheet music book I have. How else have you seen these words transcribed?
I saw written as “dream that queen,” the first time, which was what I’d heard it as, but when I was getting the bass lines for several of the songs on Relics I saw it written as “dreamboat” and later, as "dream-lit. "
I’ve always heard it as “Dreamboat”, but I guess it’s possible that there are different versions. It’s been years since I heard it so I couldn’t tell you which recording of it I’m remembering but I do I have a small handful of bootlegs with it.
I don’t know if it varies from individual recordings or not. Actually, I don’t think it would…I’d imagine the song lyrics themselves as recorded stayed the same in different performances, it’s just different listeners’ interpritation of those lyrics that varies. Listening to the track, it really does sound like it could be “dreamboat,” “dream-lit” or “dream that,” or probably a number of other things if you stretched it. I guess it’s a matter of finding someone who’d have read the original.
Biffy, I just reread your post…the first time I skipped the word “book” and just read it as “sheet music,” and I thought you just got it off line, like I had. If you’ve got an actual factual publication that uses the “dreamboat” version, that’s good enough for me. Upon listening to the song a couple times, I have to say that does sound right, so that’s what I’m going with…unless, like, Roger Waters pops in later in the thread and tells me otherwise. Thanks Biffy, sorry I didn’t read your post right on the first attempt, there.
