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Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
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Al Stewart - Time Passages
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Al Stewart - The Year Of The Cat
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Al Stewart - On The Border
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Al Stewart - Small fruit song
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Al Stewart - A man for all seasons
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Al Stewart - Bedsitter images
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Al Stewart - In Brooklyn
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Al Stewart - Midnight Rocks
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Al Stewart - Roads to Moscow
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Al Stewart - A Long Way Down From Stephanie
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Al Stewart - Almost Lucy
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Al Stewart - If it doesn't come naturally, leave it
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Al Stewart - Midas Shadow
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Al Stewart - My Enemies Have Sweet Voices
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Al Stewart - Not the one
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Al Stewart - One, Two, Three
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Al Stewart - Princess Olivia
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Al Stewart - Songs out of Clay
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Al Stewart - Strange girl
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Al Stewart - The Palace of Versailles
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Al Stewart - Zero she flies
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Al Stewart - A Sense Of Deja Vu
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Al Stewart - Accident On 3rd Street
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Al Stewart - Age Of Rhythm
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Al Stewart - Always The Cause
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Al Stewart - Amsterdam
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Al Stewart - Angel Of Mercy
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Al Stewart - Angry Bird
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Al Stewart - Anna
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Al Stewart - Anniversary
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Al Stewart - Antarctica
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Al Stewart - Apple Cider Re Constitution
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Al Stewart - Apple Cider Reconstitution
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Al Stewart - Bad reputation
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Al Stewart - Beacon Street
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Al Stewart - Beleeka Doodle Day
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Al Stewart - Belsize Blues
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Al Stewart - Black Hill
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Al Stewart - Blow Your Mansion Down
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Al Stewart - Broadway Hotel
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Al Stewart - Cafe Society
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Al Stewart - Candidate
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Al Stewart - Candy Came Back
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Al Stewart - Carol
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Al Stewart - Charlotte Corday
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Al Stewart - Child's View Of The Eisenhower Years
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Al Stewart - Class Of '58
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Al Stewart - Cleave To Me
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Al Stewart - Clifton In The Rain
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Al Stewart - Constantinople
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Al Stewart - Dark Side
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Al Stewart - Delia's Gone
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Al Stewart - Don't Forget Me
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Al Stewart - Down In The Cellars
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Al Stewart - Ear Of The Night
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Al Stewart - Electric Los Angeles sunset
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Al Stewart - Elvaston Place
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Al Stewart - Elvis At The Wheel
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Al Stewart - End Of The Day
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Al Stewart - Fantasy
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Al Stewart - Feel Like
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Al Stewart - Fields of France
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Al Stewart - Flying Sorcery
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Al Stewart - Football Hero
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Al Stewart - Four Of a Kind
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Al Stewart - Franklin's Table
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Al Stewart - French Laundry
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Al Stewart - Genie on a table top
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Al Stewart - Gethsemene Again
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Al Stewart - Ghostly Horses Of The Plains
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Al Stewart - Gina In The Kings Road
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Al Stewart - Hanno The Navigator
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Al Stewart - Helen And Cassandra
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Al Stewart - Here In Angola
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Al Stewart - Hipposong
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Al Stewart - House Of Clocks
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Al Stewart - How Does It Happen
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Al Stewart - I don't believe you
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Al Stewart - I'm falling
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Al Stewart - Immelman Turn
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Al Stewart - In red square
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Al Stewart - In the dark
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Al Stewart - Indian Summer
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Al Stewart - Jackdaw
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Al Stewart - Joe the Georgian
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Al Stewart - Josephine Baker
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Al Stewart - Katherine Of Oregon
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Al Stewart - King of Portugal
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Al Stewart - Last Days Of The Century
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Al Stewart - Laughing into 1939
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Al Stewart - League of notions
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Al Stewart - License To Steal
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Al Stewart - Life and life only
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Al Stewart - Life between the wars
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Al Stewart - Life In Dark Water
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Al Stewart - Like William Mckinley
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Al Stewart - Lindy comes to town
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Al Stewart - Lonliest Place On The Map
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Al Stewart - Lord Grenville
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Al Stewart - Lord Salisbury
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Al Stewart - Lori, don't go right now
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Al Stewart - Love Chronicles
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Al Stewart - Lover Man
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Al Stewart - Lyke-wake Dirge
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Al Stewart - Manuscript
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Al Stewart - Marion The Chatelaine
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Al Stewart - Merlin's Time
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Al Stewart - Merry Monks
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Al Stewart - Millie Brown
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Al Stewart - Mixed Blessing
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Al Stewart - Modern times
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Al Stewart - Mona Lisa Talking
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Al Stewart - Mondo Sinistro
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Al Stewart - Mr. Lear
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Al Stewart - Murmansk Run/Ellis Island
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Al Stewart - My Contemporaries
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Al Stewart - My Egyptian Couch
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Al Stewart - Necromancer
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Al Stewart - News from Spain
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Al Stewart - Next time
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Al Stewart - Night meeting
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Al Stewart - Night Of The 4th Of May
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Al Stewart - Night rolls in
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Al Stewart - Night train to Munich
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Al Stewart - Nostradamus
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Al Stewart - Old Admirals
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Al Stewart - Old Compton street blues
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Al Stewart - One stage before
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Al Stewart - Optical illusions
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Al Stewart - Out In The Snow
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Al Stewart - Paint by numbers
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Al Stewart - Pandora
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Al Stewart - Peter On The White Sea
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Al Stewart - Post World War Two Blues
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Al Stewart - Pretty golden hair
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Al Stewart - Rain Barrel
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Al Stewart - Real and unreal
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Al Stewart - Red Toupee
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Al Stewart - Rocks In The Ocean
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Al Stewart - Royal Courtship
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Al Stewart - Rumours Of War
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Al Stewart - Running man
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Al Stewart - Russians & Americans
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Al Stewart - Sailing Into The Future
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Al Stewart - Sampan
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Al Stewart - Samuel How You've Changed
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Al Stewart - Sand in your shoes
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Al Stewart - Scandinavian Girl
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Al Stewart - Sergio
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Al Stewart - Shah Of Shahs
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Al Stewart - Shiraz Shuffle
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Al Stewart - Silver Kettle
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Al Stewart - Sirens Of Titan
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Al Stewart - Sleepwalking
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Al Stewart - Soho (needless to say)
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Al Stewart - Somewhere In England 1915
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Al Stewart - Song On The Radio
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Al Stewart - Swallow Wind
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Al Stewart - Swiss Cottage Maneuvers
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Al Stewart - Tasting History
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Al Stewart - Terminal Eyes
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Al Stewart - The Ballad Of Mary Foster
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Al Stewart - The bear farmers of Birnam
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Al Stewart - The Candidate
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Al Stewart - The Carmichaels
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Al Stewart - The coldest winter in memory
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Al Stewart - The dark and rolling sea
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Al Stewart - The elf
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Al Stewart - The Gypsy And The Rose
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Al Stewart - The last day of June 1934
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Al Stewart - The Night That The Band Got The Wine
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Al Stewart - The One That Got Away
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Al Stewart - The Ringing Of Bells
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Al Stewart - The World Goes To Riyadh
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Al Stewart - Three Mules
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Al Stewart - Timeless skies
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Al Stewart - Tonton Macoute
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Al Stewart - Toutes Les Etoiles
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Al Stewart - Trains
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Al Stewart - Trespasser
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Al Stewart - Turn into earth
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Al Stewart - Turning It Into Water
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Al Stewart - Under a Winestained Moon
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Al Stewart - Valentina Way
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Al Stewart - Waiting For Margaux
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Al Stewart - Warren Harding
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Al Stewart - What's Going On?
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Al Stewart - Where are they now
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Al Stewart - Willie the King
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Al Stewart - You don't even know me
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Al Stewart - You should have listened to Al
The Night That The Band Got The Wine
Al Stewart
People went running for the doorway
And for the next half minute it shook
Up on the 17th floor the sommelier was opening the wine
He knew the great hotel was solidly built
Still it must have been a miracle that nothing got spilt.
Terry O'Shea got up from the Chippendale chair
Talking on the telephone
Looking perplexed, waving a hand in the air
In the great room all alone
Fifty years old today, a microdot billionaire
Putting on a party like a Hollywood guy
With all the food and wine that his money could buy
The band came in arguing as usual
About nothing in particular
It always seemed to be that way
Tuning up and putting out set lists
Of all the stupid songs musicians hate to play
Still it could be better then usual
The food looked great, it was money not glory
So when the clock struck eight
They began the theme tune from "Love Story".
Time went by with no one arriving at all
It was just Terry and the pictures
Of dead people frowning from the wall,
They didn't look very pleased
It was completely clear nobody was coming
They were all staying home with their earthquake kits
Waiting for the aftershocks to hit
The Night That the Band Got the Wine
Thirty decanters of wine sat ready to pour
1961 Margaux and Petrus and Chateau Latour
Swaying in unison
Lobster and cavier, shrimp and salmon
They were all laid out with artistic flair
The waiters were already eyeing their share
Terry got up and he said "Enough"
And told the band to stop playing that dreadful stuff
He made them all come over to the table
And he gave them wine they never had dreamt of
So they worked their way through the burgundy and port
And started to relax
They discovered they had more in common then they thought
And so they went back
Over to the stand and started playing again
But this time differently
It got louder and louder and fairly insane
People heard it down in the street
It felt so good, they were smiling at eachother
The waiters all ran out covering their ears
There was plaster from the ceiling on the crystal chandeliers
Terry was dancing like a madman and waving his hands
At anything and everything
Kicking up the dust from the carpet and doing handstands
Cackling and yodeling
This was a birthday bash he hadn't anticipated
Spinning like a top in the middle of the room
While the hotel shook to a sonic boom.
After a while he passed out cold on the floor
And dreamed revealing things
Then he didn't have computers anymore,
Or fawning underlings
He was running through the trees on a tropical isle
No more feeling tense
In a flower patterned shirt of questionable style
It all made sense
The band went back to their homes in the Hollywood hills
Better than they'd ever felt
Waking up their sleep-addled wives with rambling tales
It didn't go down very well
But as a legacy, they called a band meeting
And decided they were going to give up playing covers
From that day on they got along with one another
Terry woke up and strange as the story may seem.
Though he felt terrible
He found with the dawn he could still remember his dream
So he just fell away
Nobody's seem him since
But I like to think of him
Sitting on a beach like Gaugin wearing a smile
Waiting for a brown eyed girl, she'll be there in a while
Maybe thinking back to a long ago time
The Night That the Band Got the Wine
The Night That the Band Got the Wine