Al Stewart – The Last Day Of June 1934 (Guitar Live)

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The morning is humming, it's a quarter past nine

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I should be working down in the vines

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But I'm lying here with a good friend of mine

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Watching the sun in her hair

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I pick the grapes from the hills to the sea

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The fields of France are a home to me

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But today lying here is such a good place to be

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I can't go anywhe - re

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And as we slip in and out of embrace

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Like some old and familiar place

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Reflecting all of my dreams in her face like befo - ore

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On the last day of June nine-teen thirty four.

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Just out of Cambridge in a narrow country lane

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A bottle-green Bentley in the driving rain

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Slips and skids round a corner, then pulls straight again

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Heads up the drive to the door

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The lights of the party shine over the fields

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Where lovers and dancers watch catherine wheels

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And argue realities digging their heels

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In a world that's finished with war

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And a lost wind of summer blows into the streets

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Past the tramps in the alleyways, the rich in silk sheets

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And Europe lies sleeping,  you feel her heartbeats through the floor

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On the last day of June nine-teen..

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On the night that Ernst Roehm died voices rang out

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In the rolling Bavarian hills

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And swept through the cities and danced in the gutters

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Grown strong like the joining of wills

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And echoed away, like a roar in the distance

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In moonlight carved out of steel

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Singing all the lonely so long, and so long

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You don't know me I long, how I long

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You can't hold me I'm strong, how I'm strong

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Stronger than your law.

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I sit here now by the banks of the Rhine

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Dipping my feet in the cold stream of time

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And I know I'm a dreamer, I know I'm out of line

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With the people I see everywhere

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The couples pass by me, they're looking so good

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Their arms round each other, they head for the woods

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They don't care who Ernst Roehm was, no reason they should

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Just a shadow that hangs in the air

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But I thought I saw him cross over the hill

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With a whole ghostly army of men at his heel

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And struck in the moment it seemed to be real like befo -     re

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On the last day of June nine-teen thirty four.