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A League Of Notions

Al Stewart

2 acessos

Intro:  C Cm G F x2 (single strum)  C G F C G C x2  C                         G I'm here sitting in the wreck of Europe        F With a map of Europe C          G                C Spread out in a hall of Versailles C                   G                     F And every single nationality and principality C                    G                 C have come for a piece of the pie  C                    G I'm sitting in the wreck of Europe         F With a map of Europe          C                  G          C And the lines and the borders are gone C                         G We've got to do this jigsaw puzzle        F It's an awful muddle    C                    G      C But somehow we've got to go on   C7                           F **Lawrence of Arabia is waiting in the wings                Fm He's got some Arab sheikhs and kings               C      G        C And we're in debt to them somehow C7                             F Lawrence of Arabia has got this perfect vision      Fm Gonna sell him down the river              C           G    F C G C There's no time for him now  C                             G I think I'm gonna take a piece of Russia        F And a Piece of Germany     C                 G      C And give them to Poland again C                G                     F I'll put together Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia    C                G         C And hope that is how they'll remain  C                 G Then I'll take a bit of Turkey          F Then a lot of Turkey         C              G     C This is all quite a heady affair C                      G There's Persia and Iraq to pick up              F And there's Churchill's hiccup           C               G       C And we can't leave it up in the air  C7                                        F Woodrow Wilson waves his fourteen points around                               Fm And says "The time to act is now                        C     G     C Won't get this opportunity again" C7                                 F Woodrow Wilson has his fourteen points                                 Fm But Clemenceau turns to Lloyd George  And says "You know that         C               G F C G C God himself had only ten"  C                           G Today I'm carried by a league of notions    F By a league of notions C               G        C I don't think I quite understand C                         G I only know from this commotion F There's a chance that we could turn C                     G           C The world in the palm of our hands  C7                           F Voices in the corridors of power                          Fm Candles burning hour by hour                                     C      G     C Still you know that to the victors go the spoils  C7                    F Such a great responsibility to make it fair                  Fm And there must be some reparations now C                      G      F C G C And don't forget the oil  C                           G Today I'm carried by a league of notions    F By a league of notions C               G        C I don't think I quite understand C                         G I only know from this commotion F There's a chance that we could turn C                     G           C The world in the palm of our hands  C    G Pax vobiscum F C G C Wo-Oh, Pax vobiscum 

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