I dunno if this has been posted (it's always good to advice) but on the 'Queen: song by song' webpage (link, where it's talking about '39 it states:
"Here's an interesting fact: if you count up all the album tracks to date in the order they appear, this song is conveniently the thirty-ninth! Accident or design...you had better ask Brian!"
Funny, heh??
Yes, but with '32 the rhyme will be better:
In the year of '32
assembled here the Volunteers
In the days when lands were few
But i don't know nothing about metric! ;)
Josue you're right I counted them myself it is the 39th Queen song. I've just e-mailed Brian's Soapbox about this and I've told him about QueenZone.com and that he migfht put on the Links section of his site. He hasn't replied yet I hope he does though.
Posted by neil 'moxie':
I thought that it was "common knowledge". The funny thing is that Brian could have named his song '34 or '36 and put it in an other place.
Isnt the song about world war 2?? hence the date, '39
Jesus, Brian doesn't need to be informed about things that are (1.) common knowledge or (2.) absolutely unimportant. Or both, like in this case.
No wonder he doesn't reply to serious questions if people write him about every stupid thing they can think about.