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