Capo: 2
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
(End on C)
