Sailing To Philadelphia

Sailing to Philadelphia
Mark Knopfler

CAPO 2nd Fret


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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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lt 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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lt 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 boys from the west country would join th e Royal Sociaty


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We are sailing to Philadelphia, a 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 has 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, a worid 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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