Freddie Mercury wrote the lyrics and music to "We Are the Champions" in 1977. The song celebrates perseverance in the face of adversity and challenges. On November 23, 1991, Mercury announced he had AIDS and died the next day. As a tribute, "Bohemian Rhapsody/These Are the Days of Our Lives" was released to raise funds for AIDS research, reaching number one for five weeks in the UK and raising over £1,000,000. Mercury was posthumously awarded the BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music in 1992.

1. We are the Champions
Lyrics and Music : Freddy Mercury
1 I've paid my dues1
2 Time after time
3 I've done my sentence
4 But committed no crime
5 And bad mistakes
6 I've made a few
7 I've had my share of sand kicked in my face
8 But I've come through On 23rd November 1991 Freddie
Mercury announced to the world
9 We are the champions my friends
that he had AIDS and the next day
10 And we'll keep on fighting till the end
he died peacefully at his home,
11 We are the champions
surrounded by family and friends.
12 We are the champions
13 No time for losers He remains the most high profile
14 'Cause we are the champions of the world loss from the disease in the
entertainment world and the news
15 I've taken my bows2 shocked fans throughout the
16 And my curtain calls3 world. As a tribute Bohemian
17 You brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it Rhapsody /These Are The Days Of
18 I thank you all Our Lives was released as a
double A-sided single to raise
19 But it's been no bed of roses funds for the Terence Higgins
20 No pleasure cruise Trust. It entered the UK chart at
21 I consider it a challenge before the whole human race
No. 1, where it stayed for five
22 And I ain't gonna lose
weeks, raising over £1,000,000 for
the charity and Queen became the
23 We are the champions my friends
24 And we'll keep on fighting till the end
first band to have the same single
25 We are the champions - top the uK charts twice. In
26 We are the champions December of that year Queen had
27 No time for losers 10 albums in the UK Top 100. In
28 'Cause we are the champions of the world 1992 Freddie was awarded
posthumously the BRIT’s
“Outstanding Contribution to
British Music” and Days Of Our
TEXT FROM : http://www.queenonline.com/history
OFFICIAL SITE :http://www.queenonline.com Lives won Best Single. On 20th
LYRICS :http://www.songfacts.com/lyrics.php?findsong=1379 April many of the world’s top
LISTEN TO THE SONG : http://www.youtube.com/watch? stars joined Brian, Roger and John
v=xdCrZfTkG1c
on stage at Wembley for an
emotional tribute to Freddie.
GLOSSARY
1 pay your dues : to do something that you do not enjoy in order to have something that you want, or because you feel
it is your duty
2 bow : / / to bend your head or body forward, especially as a way of showing someone respect or expressing
thanks to people who have watched you perform The audience applauded enthusiastically, and she came back on
stage to take another bow
3 curtain call : when actors come to the front of the stage at the end of a performance and the people watching clap to
show their enjoyment