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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 - Turn into earth
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Al Stewart - A man for all seasons
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Al Stewart - Broadway Hotel
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Al Stewart - End Of The Day
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Al Stewart - A Long Way Down From Stephanie
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Al Stewart - Accident On 3rd Street
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Al Stewart - Apple Cider Re Constitution
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Al Stewart - Bedsitter images
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Al Stewart - Black Hill
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Al Stewart - Carol
- 14
Al Stewart - Charlotte Corday
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Al Stewart - Don't Forget Me
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Al Stewart - Four Of a Kind
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Al Stewart - Hanno The Navigator
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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 - Lord Grenville
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Al Stewart - Lover Man
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Al Stewart - Manuscript
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Al Stewart - Modern times
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Al Stewart - Mona Lisa Talking
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Al Stewart - Mr. Lear
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Al Stewart - Murmansk Run/Ellis Island
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Al Stewart - Next time
- 28
Al Stewart - Nostradamus
- 29
Al Stewart - Not the one
- 30
Al Stewart - On The Border
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Al Stewart - One, Two, Three
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Al Stewart - Rocks In The Ocean
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Al Stewart - Sergio
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Al Stewart - Sirens Of Titan
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Al Stewart - The Palace of Versailles
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Al Stewart - What's Going On?
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Al Stewart - A Sense Of Deja Vu
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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
- 41
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
- 45
Al Stewart - Anniversary
- 46
Al Stewart - Antarctica
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Al Stewart - Apple Cider Reconstitution
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Al Stewart - Bad reputation
- 49
Al Stewart - Beacon Street
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Al Stewart - Beleeka Doodle Day
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Al Stewart - Belsize Blues
- 52
Al Stewart - Blow Your Mansion Down
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Al Stewart - Cafe Society
- 54
Al Stewart - Candidate
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Al Stewart - Candy Came Back
- 56
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
- 60
Al Stewart - Constantinople
- 61
Al Stewart - Dark Side
- 62
Al Stewart - Delia's Gone
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Al Stewart - Down In The Cellars
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Al Stewart - Ear Of The Night
- 65
Al Stewart - Electric Los Angeles sunset
- 66
Al Stewart - Elvaston Place
- 67
Al Stewart - Elvis At The Wheel
- 68
Al Stewart - Fantasy
- 69
Al Stewart - Feel Like
- 70
Al Stewart - Fields of France
- 71
Al Stewart - Flying Sorcery
- 72
Al Stewart - Football Hero
- 73
Al Stewart - Franklin's Table
- 74
Al Stewart - French Laundry
- 75
Al Stewart - Genie on a table top
- 76
Al Stewart - Gethsemene Again
- 77
Al Stewart - Ghostly Horses Of The Plains
- 78
Al Stewart - Gina In The Kings Road
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Al Stewart - Helen And Cassandra
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Al Stewart - Here In Angola
- 81
Al Stewart - Hipposong
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Al Stewart - House Of Clocks
- 83
Al Stewart - How Does It Happen
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Al Stewart - If it doesn't come naturally, leave it
- 85
Al Stewart - Immelman Turn
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Al Stewart - In Brooklyn
- 87
Al Stewart - In red square
- 88
Al Stewart - In the dark
- 89
Al Stewart - Indian Summer
- 90
Al Stewart - Jackdaw
- 91
Al Stewart - Joe the Georgian
- 92
Al Stewart - Josephine Baker
- 93
Al Stewart - Katherine Of Oregon
- 94
Al Stewart - King of Portugal
- 95
Al Stewart - Last Days Of The Century
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Al Stewart - Laughing into 1939
- 97
Al Stewart - League of notions
- 98
Al Stewart - License To Steal
- 99
Al Stewart - Life and life only
- 100
Al Stewart - Life between the wars
- 101
Al Stewart - Life In Dark Water
- 102
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
- 105
Al Stewart - Lord Salisbury
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Al Stewart - Lori, don't go right now
- 107
Al Stewart - Love Chronicles
- 108
Al Stewart - Lyke-wake Dirge
- 109
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
- 113
Al Stewart - Midnight Rocks
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Al Stewart - Millie Brown
- 115
Al Stewart - Mixed Blessing
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Al Stewart - Mondo Sinistro
- 117
Al Stewart - My Contemporaries
- 118
Al Stewart - My Egyptian Couch
- 119
Al Stewart - My Enemies Have Sweet Voices
- 120
Al Stewart - Necromancer
- 121
Al Stewart - News from Spain
- 122
Al Stewart - Night meeting
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Al Stewart - Night Of The 4th Of May
- 124
Al Stewart - Night rolls in
- 125
Al Stewart - Night train to Munich
- 126
Al Stewart - Old Admirals
- 127
Al Stewart - Old Compton street blues
- 128
Al Stewart - One stage before
- 129
Al Stewart - Optical illusions
- 130
Al Stewart - Out In The Snow
- 131
Al Stewart - Paint by numbers
- 132
Al Stewart - Pandora
- 133
Al Stewart - Peter On The White Sea
- 134
Al Stewart - Post World War Two Blues
- 135
Al Stewart - Pretty golden hair
- 136
Al Stewart - Princess Olivia
- 137
Al Stewart - Rain Barrel
- 138
Al Stewart - Real and unreal
- 139
Al Stewart - Red Toupee
- 140
Al Stewart - Roads to Moscow
- 141
Al Stewart - Royal Courtship
- 142
Al Stewart - Rumours Of War
- 143
Al Stewart - Running man
- 144
Al Stewart - Russians & Americans
- 145
Al Stewart - Sailing Into The Future
- 146
Al Stewart - Sampan
- 147
Al Stewart - Samuel How You've Changed
- 148
Al Stewart - Sand in your shoes
- 149
Al Stewart - Scandinavian Girl
- 150
Al Stewart - Shah Of Shahs
- 151
Al Stewart - Shiraz Shuffle
- 152
Al Stewart - Silver Kettle
- 153
Al Stewart - Sleepwalking
- 154
Al Stewart - Small fruit song
- 155
Al Stewart - Soho (needless to say)
- 156
Al Stewart - Somewhere In England 1915
- 157
Al Stewart - Song On The Radio
- 158
Al Stewart - Songs out of Clay
- 159
Al Stewart - Strange girl
- 160
Al Stewart - Swallow Wind
- 161
Al Stewart - Swiss Cottage Maneuvers
- 162
Al Stewart - Tasting History
- 163
Al Stewart - Terminal Eyes
- 164
Al Stewart - The Ballad Of Mary Foster
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Al Stewart - The bear farmers of Birnam
- 166
Al Stewart - The Candidate
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Al Stewart - The Carmichaels
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Al Stewart - The coldest winter in memory
- 169
Al Stewart - The dark and rolling sea
- 170
Al Stewart - The elf
- 171
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
- 174
Al Stewart - The One That Got Away
- 175
Al Stewart - The Ringing Of Bells
- 176
Al Stewart - The World Goes To Riyadh
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Al Stewart - Three Mules
- 178
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
- 182
Al Stewart - Trespasser
- 183
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
- 187
Al Stewart - Warren Harding
- 188
Al Stewart - Where are they now
- 189
Al Stewart - Willie the King
- 190
Al Stewart - You don't even know me
- 191
Al Stewart - You should have listened to Al
- 192
Al Stewart - Zero she flies
A Long Way Down From Stephanie
Al Stewart
And with love's bud shorn
Now must all dalliance hither crumble and wither [1]
Oh strange, methought it strange
Thou couldst deprive me of my crown [2]
And my freedom that thou cast upon me as
Litter bears fruit of bitter strain [3]
And I would go forsooth to the dragon's tooth [4]
If thus a chance were gained
To resurrect that part of your wanton heart
To whose grave my own is chained
And hold, ere thou dost go
Were not thy moments gilded too
And in honesty didst thou not measure for measure
Countenance pleasure
Cold were't thou so cold
This in thy mind be frozen too
And will not Spring be reborn
But might the sun thaw the frost here
That all be not lost herein
And I would rather, Zounds! [5]
It were hell's own hounds
Whose foul breath upon my face
Did portent my doom, than to bear the gloom
Of a world stripped of thy grace
And so in truth I know
Yes it will be a long way down
And if go thou must, ere we should meet accidental
Prithee be gentle [6]
And though distant now
Perchance the hand of time may soothe
And though lost at six, if I should live to be seven [7]
I might forget Stephanie
Notes:
[1] Dalliance: staying around, wasting time
[2] The words 'thou' and 'thee' in this song are the equivalent of current French 'tu' and German 'du' - the familiar form of address which has now died out in English in favour of the universal 'you.'
[3]The album cover has 'litter' although 'linden' seems to be heard on the record. Linden is an old word a tree of family Tiliaceae, e.g. the lime or basswood, although 'litter' does rhyme with and contrast with 'bitter.'
[4] Forsooth: truly, or in truth (Old English)
[5] Zounds: "God's wounds!" - old expletive
[6] Prithee: pray thee = please.
[7] The payoff: at the end of the song we discover that this is a junior school romance...