Тексты песен «Al Stewart»

Al Stewart - Franklin's Table Dinner with Ben Franklin on Friday night The invitation read Of course I wrote and thanked him I wouldn't miss it for the world I said His table is so well kept He plays the glass...

Al Stewart - French Laundry King Louie never had it so good He lived like royalty should He was winin', dinin' Taking in the French laundry" No revolution's gonna keep me awake." Marie said "Just let them...

I went floating down the Street one day With a song playing in my mind Hopping and bopping like a ricochet Bad news was hard to find There was a hint of syncopation Coming from the sidewalk And the street There...

Al Stewart- Gethsemene Again In Gloucester Cathedral, on Saturday night I came to your flower show, blown like a kite And I stood by the tombstones, and gazed at the lights On the altar And the horse-faced old ladies...

Al Stewart - Ghostly Horses of the Plains We opened the door To see the coming of the trains Across this land of plenty We suddenly saw The ghostly horses of the plains Their saddles empty Struck to stone beneath the...

Al Stewart - Gina in the Kings Road Gina in the King's Road, 1968 Blonde hair and eyeshadow, I hyperventilate Purple leather mini, legs up to there Don't you cast aspersions on my naugahyde affair And she can make you...

Torn between the Gypsy and the Rose I was led on I suppose For the Gypsy was always out of reach I crossed her palm with silver just to know What the future had to hold But she only turned her back on me The...

It's a good day for going to sea Hanno the Navigator said to me. There's an open sky and a steady breeze out beyond the Pillars of Hercules. Above the foam-kissed waves seagulls scream up in the masts of our...

Al Stewart - Here in Angola I can't deal with all this undergrowth talk It just trips my feet and tangles up my thoughts You're trying to sell me your new faith Tell me why you'd do it And your hands are clenched And...

I was surrounded by a large hippopotamus And nine of it's friends who declared Quite a lot of us Are feelingrather blue And we don't know what to do I turned away but the large hippopotamus Said that his pit of...

Al Stewart - House of Clocks I once had a qilded clock Constructed in la Belle Epoque The hour hand broke, now it won't turn back So long, so long, so long I once had a sundial too But green and wild my garden grew The...

Al Stewart - How Does It Happen Oh, kid you're in a terrible state You better pick yourself up before it gets too late You're into phyiscal fitness and emotional fatness You think you're an actress, you act like a...

Nothing that's forced can ever be right If it doesn't come naturally, leave it That's what she said as she turned out the light And we bent our backs as slaves of the night Then she lowered her guard and showed me...

"Oh I come from Pittsburgh to study astrology" She said as she stepped on my instep "I could show you New York with a walk between Fourth Street and Nine" Then out of her coat taking seven harmonicas She sat down...

It's a shame about Stalin, the curator said He really was one of the best Just look at the detail on that head Too bad to melt him down with the rest But since they wrote him out of the history books Nobody gives...

I'm running away On a day like today Nothing you say Could cause me to stay Jackdaw (jackdaw) Leaving by your back door Should be gone by now Should be gone by now Should be gone by now Don't try to follow...

Now I've got my payment For the service that I gave They've given me my ticket To this place beyond the grave I suppose it's kind of funny I suppose it's kind of sad Thinking back on all the times we had But...

I was watching TV late last night And a scene transported me Long gone figures came back to life In a documentary Though I saw them dance for joy I was sad I missed that show If I had a time machine I know just...

Dreamed I was the King of Portugal In a big four poster bed Noble tapestries from wall to wall And a crown upon my head Bells ring and servants bring The jewels and the robes For the night to begin CHORUS Would...

When the cock crows And the wind blows And the primrose of dawn Is at your windows Moving through the deep You chase dreams across your sleep Scarecrows, waiting at your door In the last days of the century...