Nostradamus

(Al Stewart)



In the East the winds are blowing the ships across the sea

And it's sails, they fill the morning, and their cries ring out to me



Oh the more it changes, the more it stays the same

The hand just rearranges the players in the game



Oh, I had a dream. It seemed I stood alone

And the veil of the ages, it goes sinking from my eyes like a stone



A king shall fall and put to death by the English Parliament shall be

Fire and flame to London come in the year of six and twenty-three



An emperor of France shall rise who shall be born near Italy

His reign shall cost his empire dear, Napoleron, his name shall be

Man, man, your time is sand. Your ways are leaves upon the sea

I am the eyes of Nostradamus, all your ways are known to me

From Castile shall Franco come and the government thrown down shall be

An English king shall seek divorce and from his throne cast down is he



One named Histler shall become captain of greater Germany

No law does this man observe, bloody his rise and fall shall be



Man, man, your time is sand. Your ways are leaves upon the sea

I am the eyes of Nostradamus, all your ways are known to me



In the new lands of America, three brothers now shall come to pass

Two alone are born to rule, but all must die before their hour



Two great men, yet brothers not, shall make the North united stand

Their power shall deceive the throne and fear possess the Eastern lands

Three leagues from the gates of Rome, a pope named Paul is doomed to die

A great wall that divides a city, at this time is cast aside



These are the signs I bring to you to tell you when your time is nigh

Man, man, you time is sand. Your ways are leaves upon the sea

I am the eyes of Nostradamus, all your ways are known to me

@prophesy

Nostradamus lived in France the 1500s. Like all seers, his prophesies

were veiled in imprecise language. Various translations of his

prophesies are in print. A novel of his life was written by Liz Greene

in 1981.

recorded by Peter Bellamy

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