Sunday, August 7, 2022

Mark Knopfler - Sailing To Philadelphia

A little less know artist, Mark Knopfler. At least I dont know much about him, can't even tell another song from this. But this (Sailing To Philadelphia) is a good song. One hit wonder? Maybe, I gotta research the shit out of this... This was released in 2000.


A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I'll enjoy
All Durham and Northumberland
Is measured up by my own hand
It was my fate from birth
To make my mark upon the earth

He calls me Charlie Mason
A stargazer am I
It seems that I was born
To chart the evening sky
They'd cut me out for baking bread
But I had other dreams instead
This baker's boy from the west country
Would join the Royal Society

We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
A Mason-Dixon Line

Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon
But I swear you'll make me mad
The West will kill us both
You gullible Geordie lad
You talk of liberty
How can America be free
A Geordie and a baker's boy
In the forests of the Iroquois

Now hold your head up, Mason
See America lies there
The morning tide has raised
The capes of Delaware
Come up and feel the sun
A new morning has begun
Another day will make it clear
Why your stars should guide us here

We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
A Mason-Dixon Line

Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Good song, yet again,,, Nothing else doesn't come to my mind, exept; ENJOY!! :D  This was released in 1998. The future teaches you to be...