A League of Notions by Al Stewart Lyric and Guitar Chords

January 28, 2025 by Joaquimma Anna

If you are looking for A League of Notions guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play A League of Notions by Al Stewart using guitar or guitar.
This song by Al Stewart can also be played by that instruments.
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A League of Notions guitar chords has rhythm and included in Between the Wars (1995) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

A League of Notions by Al Stewart Guitar Chords

A cool and educational song by Al Stewart. Laurence Juber does some incredible acoustic
guitar work, unfortunately all I have here are the chords!

Capo: 2

Intro:

C Cm G F x2 (single strum)

C G F C G C x2

C

I’m here sitting in the wr

G

eck of Europe
With a

F

map of Europe

C

Spread out

G

in a hall of Vers

C

ailles

C

And every single nat

G

ionality and principal

F

ity

C

have come for a piece

G

of the pie

C

C

I’m sitting in the wr

G

eck of Europe
With a m

F

ap of Europe
And the l

C

ines and the border

G

s are gone

C

C

We’ve got to do this jigsa

G

w puzzle
It’s an

F

awful muddle
But

C

somehow we’ve got to

G

go on

C

C7

Lawrence of Arabia is waitin

F

g in the wings
He’s got some A

Fm

rab sheikhs and kings
And we’re in d

C

ebt to

G

them some

C

how

C7

Lawrence of Arabia has got this

F

perfect vision
Gonna

Fm

sell him down the river
There’s no ti

C

me for him n

G

ow

F

C

G

C

C

I think I’m gonna take a piece

G

of Russia
And a P

F

iece of Germany
And

C

give them to Polan

G

d again

C

C

I’ll put together

G

Yugoslavia and Czecho

F

slovakia
And

C

hope that is how

G

they’ll r

C

emain

C

Then I’ll take a b

G

it of Turkey
Then a lo

F

t of Turkey
This is

C

all quite a hea

G

dy aff

C

air

C

There’s Persia and Iraq

G

to pick up
And there’s C

F

hurchill’s hiccup
And we can

C

’t leave it up i

G

n the ai

C

r

C7

Woodrow Wilson waves his fourteen points a

F

round
And says “The time to act is n

Fm

ow
Won’t get this opportun

C

ity ag

G

ain”

C

C7

Woodrow Wilson has his fourteen poi

F

nts
But Clemenceau turns to Lloyd Ge

Fm

orge

And says “You know that
God hims

C

elf had only ten

G

”

F

C

G

C

C

Today I’m carried by a leagu

G

e of notions
By

F

a league of notions

C

I don’t think I

G

quite und

C

erstand

C

I only know from this comm

G

otion

F

There’s a chance that we could turn

C

The world in the palm

G

of our hands

C

C7

Voices in the corridors of po

F

wer
Candles burning hour by h

Fm

our
Still you know that to the victors g

C

o the s

G

poils

C

C7

Such a great responsib

F

ility to make it fair
And there must be

Fm

some reparations now

C

And don’t forget the oi

G

l

F

C

G

C

C

Today I’m carried by a leagu

G

e of notions
By

F

a league of notions

C

I don’t think I

G

quite und

C

erstand

C

I only know from this comm

G

otion

F

There’s a chance that we could turn

C

The world in the palm

G

of our hands

C

C

Pax v

G

obiscum

F

Wo

C

-O

G

h,

C

Pax vobiscum

(End on C)

The strumming pattern changes here. Pluck quarter notes on the bass line and single,
percussive strums after each plucked note. Go back to regular strumming at the end of
the phrase (after the Fm, for the C G C)

If you want to learn Al Stewart A League of Notions guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play A League of Notions. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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