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)