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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Ah, but today lying here is a good place to be
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I can't go anywhere
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But 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 before
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On the last day of June 1934
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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,
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you feel her heartbeats through the floor
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On the last day of June 19...
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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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Oh 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 how I long, how I long
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You can't hold me, I'm strong now 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 before
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On the last day of June 1934
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The Last Day Of June 1934
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| Al Stewart |
