Sailing To Philadelphia – Mark Knopfler
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I am Jeremiah Dixon, I am a Geordie boy
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A glass of wine with you, sir, and the ladies I'll enjoy
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All Durham and Northumberland is measured up by my own hand
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It was my fate from birth to make my mark upon the earth
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He calls me Charlie Mason, a stargazer am I
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It seems that I was born to chart the evening sky
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They'd cut me out for baking bread, but I had other dreams instead
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This baker's boy from the west country would join the Royal Society
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We are sailing to Philadelphia, world away from the coaly Tyne
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Sailing to Philadelphia to draw the line, the Mason – Dixon Line
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Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon, but I swear you'll make me mad
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The West will kill us both, you gullible Geordie lad
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You talk of liberty, how can America be free?
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A Geordie and a baker's boy in the forests of the Iroquois
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Now hold your head up, Mason, see America lies there
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The morning tide has raised, the capes of Delaware
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Come up and feel the sun, a new morning is begun
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Another day will make it clear, why your stars should guide us here
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We are sailing to Philadelphia, world away from the coaly Tyne
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Sailing to Philadelphia to draw the line
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The Mason – Dixon Line, the Mason – Dixon Line
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