John Finnemore's Capitals of Europe Song - Sing-along version, with Flags
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2019
- A sing-along version of John Finnemore's Capitals of Europe song. Lyrics by John Finnemore, music by Susannah Pearse. Performed by John Finnemore, Susannah Pearse and Sally Stairs.
In Slovakia the capital of course is Bratislava.
Dublin is in Ireland or Eire if you'd rather.
Lisbon is in Portugal, Madrid's next door in Spain.
Brussels is in Belgium, Kiev's in the Ukraine.
Sofia's in Bulgaria, and while you're in the area,
There's Chisinau Moldova, and Athens down in Greece.
Then there's Bucharest Romania, Tirana in Albania
And Sarajevo Bosnia (and Herzegovina) now happily at peace.
The Netherlands has Amsterdam, Malta has Valletta.
Oslo's up in Norway, I suggest you take a sweater.
Pristina is in Kosovo although I am afraid,
It's not recognised in Serbia, so don't sing this in Belgrade.
San Marino is its own one cos it's just a little fella.
Andorra is the same except they stick on a "La Vella".
Luxembourg and Monaco are similarly dinky.
Hungary has Budapest, Finland has Helsinki.
There's Skopje Macedonia, there's Tallinn in Estonia.
Montenegro's Podgorica, I've said that right I hope.
Rome of course in Italy and nestled in it prettily,
The Vatican, a city state, in which you'll find the Pope.
Lithuania has Vilnius, and now I'm sure you're eager
For the capital of Latvia, so here you go it's Riga.
Copenhagen is in Denmark, Minsk's in Belarus.
It was once called Belorussia but that's fallen out of use.
Now the capital of Switzerland's a tricky one to learn.
Is it Zurich or Geneva? Well, no, actually it's Bern.
Warsaw is in Poland, why not to visit it today?
Prague's the Czech Republic (aka Czechia), London's the UK.
Reykjavik's in Iceland. Another very nice land
Is Sweden, visit Stockholm if you ever get the chance.
Vaduz you'll find in Liechtenstein. Vienna, home of Wittgenstein,
Is Austria and Paris is the capital of France.
Berlin is in Germany, Zagreb is in Croatia.
We're going to ignore the ones that partly lie in Asia.
So no Russia and no Kazakhstan, no Turkey, no Armenia.
Just Nicosia in Cyprus and Ljubljana in Slovenia.
Who else is listening to this on loop to be able to recite it in pub quizzes?
This song literally saved me for a Geography test, your a life saver!
Thank you so much for posting this, a work of genius, Tom Lehrer couldn't have bettered this. Thank you Martin
Yes, thank you for posting this, I love John Finnemore and I am going to learn this song!
I have loved this since I first heard it, especially the Berne line
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Brilliant - thanks for the lyrics and graphics! I loved this when I first heard it on Radio 4 a few months ago and am hoping to sing along to it at a small private revue in a couple of weeks... if I may use your graphic as a backdrop projection!
They should teach this in music lessons of secondary schools, just so they can wow the history students.
I like how there is PUBE at the end of the youtube address for this ;-) Lots of work went to this, thank you very much for your efforts!
For Switzerland it depends on how technical you wanna get. Legally, we don't have a capital, actually. Practically it's Bern, though, as the seat of (most of) the government and where we'd receive state visits etc.
This is brilliant! I spend an hour typing up the lyrics and am so glad to see this brilliant graphical representation. If anyone could work out the chords (I'm a novice guitarist) I'd love to cover it :D
C/Am/F/G for the main verses, other bits go F/C/G/C/C7 then F/C/D7/G
C, Am, F, G then from Netherlands F, C,G,C then from Pristina F, C,D,G then from the top
Thanks guys! I did the thing! It's amateur as hell but I enjoyed it. ua-cam.com/video/HR5YSF1yNWY/v-deo.html
Wooooow!!!! I loved it!💚🌹🥀🌷💚
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is this in Spotify or Amazon Music?
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