
Date of issue: 31.12.2004
Song language: English
Sailing To Philadelphia |
I'm Jeremiah Dixon |
I am a Geordie boy |
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 |
The 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 forest 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 is 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 |
The Mason-Dixon line |
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