Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Sailing To Philadelphia , by - Mark Knopfler. Release date: 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 |