Capo: 2

Intro:

C5 C5 G5 F5 x2 (single strum )

C5 G5 F5 C5 G5 C5 x2

C5                         G5
I'm here sitting in the wreck of Europe
       F5
With a map of Europe
C5          G5                C5
Spread out in a hall of Versailles
C5                   G5                     F5
And every single nationality and principality
C5                    G5                 C5
have come for a piece of the pie

C5                    G5
I'm sitting in the wreck of Europe
        F5
With a map of Europe
         C5                  G5          C5
And the lines and the borders are gone
C5                         G5
We've got to do this jigsaw puzzle
       F5
It's an awful muddle
   C5                    G5      C5
But somehow we've got to go on

 C5                           F5
**Lawrence of Arabia is waiting in the wings
               F5
He's got some Arab sheikhs and kings
              C5      G5        C5
And we're in debt to them somehow
C5                             F5
Lawrence of Arabia has got this perfect vision
     F5
Gonna sell him down the river
             C5           G5    F5 C5 G5 C5
There's no time for him now

C5                             G5
I think I'm gonna take a piece of Russia
       F5
And a Piece of Germany
    C5                 G5      C5
And give them to Poland again
C5                G5                     F5
I'll put together Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
   C5                G5         C5
And hope that is how they'll remain

C5                 G5
Then I'll take a bit of Turkey
         F5
Then a lot of Turkey
        C5              G5     C5
This is all quite a heady affair
C5                      G5
There's Persia and Iraq to pick up
             F5
And there's Churchill's hiccup
          C5               G5       C5
And we can't leave it up in the air

C5                                        F5
Woodrow Wilson waves his fourteen points around
                              F5
And says "The time to act is now
                       C5     G5     C5
Won't get this opportunity again"
C5                                 F5
Woodrow Wilson has his fourteen points
                                F5
But Clemenceau turns to Lloyd George

And says "You know that
        C5               G5 F5 C5 G5 C5
God himself had only ten"

C5                           G5
Today I'm carried by a league of notions
   F5
By a league of notions
C5               G5        C5
I don't think I quite understand
C5                         G5
I only know from this commotion
F5
There's a chance that we could turn
C5                     G5           C5
The world in the palm of our hands

C5                           F5
Voices in the corridors of power
                         F5
Candles burning hour by hour
                                    C5      G5     C5
Still you know that to the victors go the spoils

C5                    F5
Such a great responsibility to make it fair
                 F5
And there must be some reparations now
C5                      G5      F5 C5 G5 C5
And don't forget the oil

C5                           G5
Today I'm carried by a league of notions
   F5
By a league of notions
C5               G5        C5
I don't think I quite understand
C5                         G5
I only know from this commotion
F5
There's a chance that we could turn
C5                     G5           C5
The world in the palm of our hands

C5    G5
Pax vobiscum
F5 C5 G5 C5
Wo-Oh, Pax vobiscum

(End on C5 )


 **The strumming pattern changes here. Pluck quarter notes on the bass line and single, 
percussive strums after each plucked note. Go back to regular strumming at the end of 
the phrase (after the Fm , for the C G C)