《The Great Nations of Europe(Live)》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:00:26] Hide your groceries too

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

[00:00:37] The Grand Canary Islands

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

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

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

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

[00:00:48] Guanches by the score

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:15] Hide your groceries too

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

[00:01:25] Columbus sailed for India

[00:01:27] Found Salvador instead

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

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

[00:01:37] Diphtheria and the flu

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

[00:01:48] Balboa found the Pacific

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:03:06] In the sixteenth century