Biography:
The Divine Comedy is a baroque pop band now based in Dublin, Ireland, fronted by Neil Hannon.
Neil Hannon, Originally from Derry, has been the only ever-present member of the band, being its founder in 1989 when he was joined by John McCullagh and Kevin Traynor. Their first album, the heavily R.E.M.-influenced and now-deleted Fanfare for the Comic Muse, enjoyed little success though. A couple of equally unsuccessful EPs - Timewatch (1991); Europop (1992) - were to follow
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Other songs:
- Catherine The Great
- Funny Peculiar
- Have You Ever Been In Love
- How Can You Leave Me On My Own
- I Joined The Foreign Legion (to Forget)
- Neapolitan Girl
- A Desperate Man
- A Lady Of A Certain Age
- Absent Friends
- At The Indie Disco
- Bad Ambassador
- Becoming More Like Alfie
- Come Home Billy Bird
- Down In The Streets Below
- Everyone Knows Except You
- Eye Of The Needle
- I Joined The Foreign Legion To Forget
- I Like
- If
- Love What You Do
- Mastermind
- Mother Dear
- National Express
- Our Mutual Friend
- Perfect Lovesong
- Songs Of Love
- Summerhouse
- Sunrise
- The Light Of Day
- The Pact
- To Die A Virgin
- To The Rescue
- Tonight We Fly
- Woman Of The World
- Your Daddys Car
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Let's talk of Catherine the Great
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Let's talk of love and the power of the state
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She was a crazy spontaneous girl
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Everyone paid homage to her
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Catherine the Great
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There were few brainier
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Just ask the king of Lithuania
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She could dictate what went on anywhere
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She had great hair
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And a powerful gait
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Catherine the Great
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She could converse with the best
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She knew Voltaire Diderot and the rest
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She might have conquered a third of the world
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But inside she was a sensitive girl
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Catherine the Great
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With her military might
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She could defeat anyone that she liked
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And she looked so bloody good on a horse
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They couldn't wait
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For her to invade
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Catherine the Great
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Yekaterina Alexeyevna
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Yekaterina Alexeyevna
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Yekaterina Alexeyevna
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Yekaterina Alexeyevna
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Let's talk of Catherine the Great
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Let's talk of love and the power of the state
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If I could touch but the hem of her dress
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Tell her a joke
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Bake her a cake
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Catherine the Great
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