A League of Notions (with Laurence Juber) - Al Stewart, Laurence Juber

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