Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song A League Of Notions, artist - Al Stewart. Album song Between The Wars, in the genre ПопDate of issue: 07.05.1995
Record label: Rhino Entertainment Company
Song language: English
A League Of Notions |
| I’m here sitting in the wreck of Europe |
| With a map of Europe |
| Spread out in a hall of Versailles |
| And every single nationality and principality |
| Have come for a piece of the pie |
| I’m sitting in the wreck of Europe |
| With a map of Europe |
| And the lines and the borders are gone |
| We’ve got to do this jigsaw puzzle |
| It’s an awful muddle |
| But somehow we’ve got to go on |
| Lawrence of Arabia is waiting in the wings |
| He’s got some Arab sheikhs and kings |
| And we’re in debt to them somehow |
| Lawrence of Arabia has got this perfect vision |
| Gonna sell him down the river |
| There’s no time for him now |
| I think I’m gonna take a piece of Russia |
| And a Piece of Germany |
| And give them to Poland again |
| I’ll put together Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia |
| And hope that is how they’ll remain |
| Then I’ll take a bit of Turkey |
| Then a lot of Turkey |
| This is all quite a heady affair |
| There’s Persia and Iraq to pick up |
| And there’s Churchill’s hiccup |
| And we can’t leave it up in the air |
| Woodrow Wilson waves his fourteen points around |
| And says «The time to act is now |
| Won’t get this opportunity again» |
| Woodrow Wilson has his fourteen points |
| But Clemenceau turns to Lloyd George |
| And says «You know that |
| God himself had only ten» |
| Today I’m carried by a league of notions |
| (It's a league of notions) |
| By a league of notions |
| I don’t think I quite understand |
| (I don’t think I understand) |
| I only know from this commotion |
| (From this commotion) |
| There’s a chance that we could turn |
| The world in the palm of our hands |
| (We can turn the world in the palm of our hands) |
| Voices in the corridors of power |
| Candles burning hour by hour |
| Still you know that to the victors go the spoils |
| Such a great responsibility to make it fair |
| And there must be some reparations now |
| And don’t forget the oil |
| Today I’m carried by a league of notions |
| (It's a league of notions) |
| By a league of notions |
| I don’t think I quite understand |
| (I don’t think I understand) |
| I only know from this commotion |
| (From this commotion) |
| There’s a chance that we could turn |
| The world in the palm of our hands |
| (We can turn the world in the palm of our hands) |
| Pax vobiscum |
| Wo-Oh, Pax vobiscum |