[ti:Sailing To Philadelphia]
[ar:Mark Knopfler]
[al:]
[00:01.19]Sailing to Philadelphia
[00:10.71]
[00:11.81]Mark Knopfler
[00:18.39]
[00:19.89]I'm Jeremiah Dixon
[00:22.62]I am a Geordie boy
[00:25.26]A glass of wine with you, sir
[00:26.91]And the ladies I'll enjoy
[00:30.98]All Durham and Northumberland
[00:35.15]Is measured up by my own hand
[00:40.10]It was my fate from birth
[00:43.89]To make my mark upon the earth...
[00:47.91]
[00:50.61]He calls me Charlie Mason
[00:52.94]A stargazer am I
[00:56.16]It seems that I was born
[00:57.67]To chart the evening sky
[01:01.42]They'd cut me out for baking bread
[01:05.62]But I had other dreams instead
[01:09.90]This baker's boy from the west country
[01:14.09]Would join the Royal Society...
[01:17.75]
[01:20.48]We are sailing to Philadelphia
[01:26.10]A world away from the coaly Tyne
[01:30.54]Sailing to Philadelphia
[01:36.35]To draw the line
[01:40.19]The Mason-Dixon line
[01:44.08]
[02:06.67]Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon
[02:09.04]But I swear you'll make me mad
[02:12.19]The West will kill us both
[02:14.04]You gullible Geordie lad
[02:18.19]You talk of liberty
[02:21.85]How can America be free
[02:26.29]A Geordie and a baker's boy
[02:30.30]In the forest of the Iroquois...
[02:33.83]
[02:36.60]Now hold your head up, Mason
[02:38.92]See America lies there
[02:42.53]The morning tide has raised
[02:44.36]The capes of Delaware
[02:48.51]Come up and feel the sun
[02:52.43]A new morning is begun
[02:56.69]Another day will make it clear
[03:00.77]Why your stars should guide us here...
[03:04.17]
[03:06.99]We are sailing to Philadelphia
[03:12.83]A world away from the coaly Tyne
[03:17.04]Sailing to Philadelphia
[03:22.81]To draw the line
[03:26.63]The Mason-Dixon line
[03:35.90]