A League Of Notions

Song A League Of Notions
Artist Al Stewart
Album Between The Wars

Lyrics

作词 : Stewart
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

Pinyin

zuò cí : Stewart
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
WoOh, Pax vobiscum