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T:Sing a Song of Europe
T:(Or “what it was like before the European Union”)
C:Unknown composer
M:4/4
L:1/4
1/4=120
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w:Sing a song of Eu-rope, * high-ly ci-vil-ised
c/2B/2A/2G/2 c E | (E/4E/4A/2)A/2^G/2 A2
w:Four and twen-ty na-tions com-plete-ly hyp-no-tised.
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w:When the bat-tle o-pened the guns be-gan to sing,
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w:Was-n’t that a sil-ly thing to do for a-ny king.
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W:Sing a song of Europe, highly civilised;
W:Four and twenty nations completely hypnotised.
W:When the battle opened the guns began to sing,
W:Wasn’t that a silly thing to do for any king.
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W:The kings were in the background issuing commands;
W:The queens were in the parlour by etiquette’s demands;
W:The bankers in the counting house, busy multiplying;
W:The common people at the Front, doing all the dying.
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