《The Great Nations of Europe(Live)》歌词

歌曲： The Great Nations of Europe(Live)

所属专辑：Live In London

歌手： Randy Newman

时长： 03:35

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The Great Nations of Europe - Randy Newman[00:00:00]

The great nations of Europe[00:00:05]

Had gathered on the shore[00:00:08]

They'd conquered what was behind them[00:00:10]

And now they wanted more[00:00:12]

So they looked to the mighty ocean[00:00:14]

And took to the western sea[00:00:16]

The great nations of Europe in the sixteenth century[00:00:19]

Hide your wives and daughters[00:00:23]

Hide your groceries too[00:00:26]

Great nations of Europe coming through[00:00:28]

The Grand Canary Islands[00:00:37]

First land to which they came[00:00:39]

They slaughtered all the canaries[00:00:41]

Which gave the land its name[00:00:44]

There were natives there called Guanches[00:00:46]

Guanches by the score[00:00:48]

Bullets disease the Portuguese and they weren't there anymore[00:00:50]

Now they're gone they're gone they're really gone[00:00:55]

You've never seen anyone so gone[00:01:00]

They're a picture in a museum[00:01:04]

Some lines written in a book[00:01:07]

But you won't find a live one no matter where you look[00:01:09]

Hide your wives and daughters[00:01:13]

Hide your groceries too[00:01:15]

Great nations of Europe coming through[00:01:18]

Columbus sailed for India[00:01:25]

Found Salvador instead[00:01:27]

He shook hands with some Indians and soon they all were dead[00:01:29]

They got TB and typhoid and athlete's foot[00:01:34]

Diphtheria and the flu[00:01:37]

Excuse me great nations coming through [00:01:39]

Balboa found the Pacific[00:01:48]

And on the trail one day[00:01:51]

He met some friendly Indians[00:01:55]

Whom he was told were gay[00:01:58]

So he had them torn apart by dogs on religious grounds they say[00:02:01]

The great nations of Europe were quite holy in their way[00:02:06]

Now they're gone they're gone they're really gone[00:02:10]

You've never seen anyone so gone[00:02:16]

Some bones hidden in the canyon[00:02:20]

Some paintings in a cave[00:02:22]

There's no use trying to save them[00:02:25]

There's nothing left to save[00:02:27]

Hide your wives and daughters[00:02:29]

Hide your sons as well[00:02:31]

With the great nations of Europe you never can tell[00:02:34]

From where you and I are standing[00:02:40]

At the end of a century[00:02:43]

Europes have sprung up everywhere as even I can see[00:02:45]

But there on the horizon as a possibility[00:02:50]

Some bug from out of Africa might come for you and me[00:02:54]

Destroying everything in its path[00:02:59]

From sea to shining sea[00:03:01]

Like the great nations of Europe[00:03:04]

In the sixteenth century[00:03:06]