[00:00.67]Coldest Winter In Memory (2005 Digital Remaster) - Al Stewart
[00:04.87]The coldest winter in memory was 1709
[00:12.30]The sea froze off the coast of
[00:15.06]France all along the Neptune line
[00:20.22]By the lost town of Dunwich the shore was washed away
[00:28.84]They say you hear the church bells still
[00:31.85]As they toll beneath the waves
[00:38.78]Come all you earthly princes
[00:42.30]Wheresoever you may be
[00:46.53]From the Sun King in the court of
[00:49.42]France to the Czar in Muscovy
[00:54.62]Take heed of Charles of Sweden
[00:58.70]The Lion North of the North
[01:02.97]On the cracked earth of summer
[01:06.53]With his army he goes forth
[01:14.13]Guardian angels wherever you may be
[01:21.66]Reach down and keep my soul for me
[01:32.84]I was there amongst that number
[01:37.48]I heard the trumpets strain
[01:41.64]I saw the host of banners
[01:44.69]Spread across the Polish plain
[01:49.21]Those who stood against us
[01:53.19]They soon were swept away
[01:57.20]They may have the numbers
[02:01.04]But it's Charles shall have the day
[02:07.87]We cut our way through forests
[02:11.60]Crossed on frozen streams
[02:16.05]They fell away before us like a murmur in a dream
[02:23.43]And they burned the land around us
[02:27.38]As snow was closing in
[02:31.49]And the arms of winter took us
[02:35.17]As we fired against the wind
[02:40.91]Guardian angels wherever you may be
[02:48.46]Reach down and keep my soul for me
[03:26.67]Through all the courts of Europe
[03:29.94]There's a rumor from the East
[03:34.82]The kings have come to battle
[03:37.98]And it's Charles who's known defeat
[03:42.23]They'll shake their heads
[03:43.88]And wonder at how this came to be
[03:50.29]But it's nights without a shelter
[03:54.31]That have made an end for me
[04:00.49]Now Charles is fled to Turkey
[04:04.46]Left his men afar
[04:08.27]And they'll be marched through Moscow now
[04:12.46]As prisoners of the Czar
[04:16.33]And had I but known last summer
[04:20.62]What I know understand
[04:24.51]I'd have never set my foot inside
[04:28.48]This bleak and bitter land
[04:34.13]Guardian angels wherever you may be
[04:41.62]Reach down and keep my soul for me
[04:49.64]The coldest winter in memory was 1709
[04:57.07]The sea froze off the coast of
[04:59.96]France all along the Neptune line
[05:04.95]By the lost town of Dunwich
[05:09.06]The shore was washed away
[05:13.62]They say you hear the church bells still
[05:16.55]As they toll beneath the waves