• Home
  • Shows
  • Bio
  • Music
    • Songs
  • Photos
  • Store
  • Contact & Links

Al Stewart

  • Home
  • Shows
  • Bio
  • Music
    • Songs
  • Photos
  • Store
  • Contact & Links

MY ENEMIES HAVE SWEET VOICES

I was in a bar called Paradise 
When the fiddler from the band 
Asked me "Why do you stand there crying?" 
I answered him: "Musician, this may come as a surprise 
I was trying to split the difference 
And it split before my eyes 
And my enemies have sweet voices 
Their tones are soft and kind 
When I hear my heart rejoices 
I do not seem to mind" 

I was playing Brag in Bedlam 
And the doctor would not deal 
Asking me: "Why do you kneel down there bleeding?" 
I answered him "Physician, 
I think you would have cried 
I was falling back on failure 
The failure stepped aside 
And my enemies have sweet voices 
Their tones are soft and kind 
When I hear my heart rejoices 
I do not seem to mind" 

I was blind side to the gutter 
And Merlin happened by 
Asking me "why do you lie down there bleeding?" 
I answered him "Magician, as a matter of a fact 
I was jumping to conclusions 
And one of them jumped back 
And my enemies have sweet voices 
Their tones are soft and kind 
When I hear my heart rejoices 
I do not seem to mind"

GUITAR TABLATURE

DOWNLOAD TAB

JOIN THE MAILING LIST TO RECEIVE UPDATES!

* indicates required
 
 

© 2022 Al Stewart.

Front page photo: 📷 Randall Armor.

 

 

  • Log out

notes
0:00/???
  1. 1
    Antarctica 4:05
    0:00/4:05
  2. 2
    On the Border 3:46
    0:00/3:46
  3. 3
    Gina in the Kings Road 3:49
    0:00/3:49
  4. 4
    Last Days of the Century/Constantinople/Last Days 7:25
    0:00/7:25
  5. 5
    Year of the Cat 9:25
    0:00/9:25
  6. 6
    Genie on a Table Top 3:47
    0:00/3:47
  7. 7
    Night Train to Munich 4:25
    0:00/4:25
  8. 8
    Time Passages 6:35
    0:00/6:35
  9. 9
    House of Clocks 2:58
    0:00/2:58
  10. 10
    Roads to Moscow 8:45
    0:00/8:45
  11. 11
    Angry Bird 2:44
    0:00/2:44
  12. 12
    Coldest Winter 5:58
    0:00/5:58
  13. 13
    Princess Olivia 3:00
    0:00/3:00
  14. 14
    Hanno the Navigator 4:17
    0:00/4:17
0:00/???