Electric Light Orchestra - Illusions In G Major Lyrics

Electric Light Orchestra Lyrics

"Illusions In G Major"

On the seven seas
There was a phantom ship a-coming
Shinin' on the dead of night
I heard the crew a-hummin'
Tunes that sounded like
The Rolling Stones and Leonard Cohen
They didn't know the words
So I assumed that they was foreign
No, no

But I heard them just the same
Oh doctor, let me teach 'em
I just wanna please 'em, now
I said, doctor, let me teach 'em
I just wanna please 'em, now

I looked up in the sky
There was a phantom plane a comin'
Shinin' in the dead of night
I heard the pilot saying
Poems that were written
By John Keats and Robert Browning
He didn't know the words
So I suppose that it was nothing
No, no, no

But I heard them just the same
Oh doctor, let me teach 'em
I just wanna please 'em, now
I said, doctor, let me teach 'em
I just wanna please 'em, now
Hey!

Oh doctor, please believe me
I know you won't deceive me
But do these things I'm seeing
Have any hidden meaning?
It's all good entertainment
It doesn't cost a penny
But please doc, let me teach 'em
If I could only reach 'em
My, my, my

And I heard them just the same
Oh doctor, let me teach 'em
I just wanna please 'em, now
Oh doctor, let me teach 'em
I just wanna please 'em, now

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Thanks to John Fry for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Jeff Lynne

album: "Eldorado" (1974)

Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado album cover

Eldorado Overture

Can't Get It Out Of My Head

Boy Blue

Laredo Tornado

Poorboy (The Greenwood)

Eldorado Instrumental Medley

(Instrumental)

Dark City

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"Illusions In G Major" lyrics

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