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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 - Nostradamus
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Al Stewart - One, Two, Three
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Al Stewart - Bedsitter images
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Al Stewart - Broadway Hotel
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Al Stewart - Clifton In The Rain
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Al Stewart - End Of The Day
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Al Stewart - In red square
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Al Stewart - Life In Dark Water
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Al Stewart - Old Admirals
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Al Stewart - On The Border
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Al Stewart - Post World War Two Blues
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Al Stewart - Roads to Moscow
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Al Stewart - Rocks In The Ocean
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Al Stewart - Soho (needless to say)
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Al Stewart - Strange girl
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Al Stewart - Terminal Eyes
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Al Stewart - The last day of June 1934
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Al Stewart - Tonton Macoute
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Al Stewart - Warren Harding
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Al Stewart - A Long Way Down From Stephanie
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Al Stewart - A man for all seasons
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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 - Almost Lucy
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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - If it doesn't come naturally, leave it
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Al Stewart - Immelman Turn
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Al Stewart - In Brooklyn
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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 - 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 - Midas Shadow
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Al Stewart - Midnight Rocks
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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 - My Enemies Have Sweet Voices
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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 - Not the one
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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 - Pretty golden hair
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Al Stewart - Princess Olivia
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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 - 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 - Small fruit song
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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 - Songs out of Clay
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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 - 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 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 Palace of Versailles
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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 - 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 - 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
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Al Stewart - Zero she flies
The Ballad Of Mary Foster
Al Stewart
David Foster lives in Gloucester with his family
Works 'til pay-time, through the day-time, then comes home fortea
Steak and kidney, then with Sydney to his club and feels free
They close the bar, he finds his car and then goes home to sleep
And his wife has been with Rosie, in the parlour where it's cosy
Watching telly, doing dishes, patching pants and making wishes
And he'll say "Bill should have wired"
And "Not tonight dear, I'm too tired"
And life drifts slowly by in the provinces
Peter Foster goes to Gloucester for his first school day
Bites his teacher, sees a preacher and is taught to pray
Sees some birds and learns some words it's very, very rude to say
Yes, he's rather like his father was in his young day
And his father has discussions, holding forth about the Russians
"Will the Red Chinese attack us?"
"Do we need the Yanks to back us?
"And in bed she feels his shoulder, but he grunts and just turnsover
And life drifts slowly by in the provinces
Wedding rings come with strings but love depends on the littlethings
"Oh could that still be really you?"
"Is there anything time can't do?
David Foster's been promoted, he's a decent sort
Peter's gone to Dad's old Public School, it's good for sport
They've even got a private parking place down in Huntingdon Court
Maybe soon he'll be a magistrate, the neighbours thought
Yes, and then he'll teach the beatniks
And the hang-around-the-streetnicks
And the good-for-nothing loafers
Who knock girls up on their sofas
And his wife is quite nice, really
Though she seems a little dreamy
Recently...
[Act Two
]I was born and brought up on the east side of town
And my earliest days they passed quickly
I would play after school with the kids all around
In the sun and the dust of the back streets
Oh, all through my girlhood the war had its day
And my daddy he would always be leaving
So my brother and I we would sit by her side
Telling our tales through the evening
Oh, I grew with the days and the boys came to cal
lIn the back shed I learned about kissing
But I don't think my mother has noticed at all
For we've heard that my daddy is missing
Then my school days they were over and I went off to work
And my mother grew quieter and greyer
So one day I left her and went off to live
With Billy, a saxophone player
In our broken down attic we laughed and made love
And all that we had we were sharing
Oh, we slept through the day and played into the night
God, we did as we pleased without caring
Oh but a year's passed away and he's left me one day
To play in a far away country
And the sun told my eyes "You've got no place to hide"
As I waited to be having his baby
Oh I lived in the park and the men passed and stared
Each wondering which one had lost her
And one came to ask could he buy me a meal
And he said he was called David Foster
We were married that month and I swore to myself
Somehow I'd pay back what I owed him
Cooking his supper and cleaning his boots
Yes, and kidding myself I could love him
Oh, but now my baby is grown and he's gone out to school
And he looks very much like his daddy
And David has buried himself in his work
And the time on my hands, it hangs heavy
Oh, the neighbours they smile as we pass in the streets
And they make their remarks on the weather
But the butcher and baker deliver things now
And I've stopped going out altogether
Oh, I live by my mirror and stare in my eyes
Trying to make out who I see there
But I'm looking at a woman that I can't recognize
And I don't think she knows me either
There are lines on her face and her hair is a mess
And the light in her eyes it grows colder
In the morning there's nothing will change, ah but yes
I will be just a little bit older