A League Of Notions

Intro:

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I'm here sitting in the wreck of Europe
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With a map of Europe
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Spread out in a hall of Versailles
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And every single nationality and principality
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have come for a piece of the pie

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I'm sitting in the wreck of Europe
        F
With a map of Europe
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And the lines and the borders are gone
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We've got to do this jigsaw puzzle
       F
It's an awful muddle
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But somehow we've got to go on

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**Lawrence of Arabia is waiting in the wings
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He's got some Arab sheikhs and kings
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And we're in debt to them somehow
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Lawrence of Arabia has got this perfect vision
     Fm
Gonna sell him down the river
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There's no time for him now

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I think I'm gonna take a piece of Russia
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And a Piece of Germany
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And give them to Poland again
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I'll put together Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
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And hope that is how they'll remain

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Then I'll take a bit of Turkey
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Then a lot of Turkey
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This is all quite a heady affair
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There's Persia and Iraq to pick up
             F
And there's Churchill's hiccup
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And we can't leave it up in the air

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Woodrow Wilson waves his fourteen points around
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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
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God himself had only ten"

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Today I'm carried by a league of notions
   F
By a league of notions
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I don't think I quite understand
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I only know from this commotion
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There's a chance that we could turn
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The world in the palm of our hands

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Voices in the corridors of power
                         Fm
Candles burning hour by hour
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Still you know that to the victors go the spoils

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Such a great responsibility to make it fair
                 Fm
And there must be some reparations now
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And don't forget the oil

C                           G
Today I'm carried by a league of notions
   F
By a league of notions
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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

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Pax vobiscum
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Wo-Oh, Pax vobiscum