Al Stewart – The Coldest Winter In Memory (Guitar)

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The coldest winter in memory was 1709

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The sea froze off the coast of France all along the Neptune line

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By the lost town of Dunwich the shore was washed away

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They say you hear the church bells still as they toll beneath the waves

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Come all you earthly princes, wheresoever you may be

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From the Sun King in the court of France to the Tsar in Muscovy

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Take of heed of Charles of Sweden, the Lion of the North,

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On the cracked earth of summer with his army he goes forth

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I was there amongst that number, I heard the trumpets strain

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I saw the host of banners spread across the Polish plain

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And those who stood against us, they soon were swept away

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They may have the numbers but it's Charles shall have the day

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Guardian angels wherever you may be,

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reach down and keep my soul for me

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We cut our way through forests, we crossed on frozen streams

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They fell away before us like a murmur in a dream

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They burned the land around us while snow was closing in

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The hands of winter took us as we fired against the wind

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Through all the courts of Europe there's a rumor from the East

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The kings have come to battle and it's Charles who's known defeat

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They'll shake their heads and wonder at how this came to be

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But it's nights without a shelter that have made an end for me

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Guardian angels wherever you may be,

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reach down and keep my soul for me

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Now Charles is fled to Turkey, left his men afar

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And they'll be marched through Moscow now as prisoners of the Tsar

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And had I but known last summer what I know understand

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I'd have never set my foot inside this bleak and bitter land

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Guardian angels wherever you may be,

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reach down and keep my soul for me

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The coldest winter in memory was 1709

    C                 G                   F                 G
The sea froze off the coast of France all along the Neptune line

       Am           Em          F                 G
By the lost town of Dunwich the shore was washed away

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They say you hear the church bells still as they toll beneath the waves