Sailing To Philadelphia

Song Sailing To Philadelphia
Artist Dire Straits
Album The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler

Lyrics

[00:19.18] I am Jeremiah Dixon
[00:22.07] I am a Geordie boy
[00:24.83] A glass of wine with you, sir
[00:26.71] And the ladies I'll enjoy
[00:30.46] All Durham and Northumberland
[00:34.70] Is measured up by my own hand
[00:39.69] It was my fate from birth
[00:43.52] To make my mark upon the earth
[00:50.16] He calls me Charlie Mason
[00:52.62] A stargazer am I
[00:55.38] It seems that I was born
[00:57.10] To chart the evening sky
[01:00.73] They'd cut me out for baking bread
[01:05.15] But I had other dreams instead
[01:09.07] This baker's boy from the west country
[01:13.46] Would join the Royal Society
[01:19.72] We are sailing to Philadelphia
[01:25.41] A world away from the coaly Tyne
[01:30.05] Sailing to Philadelphia
[01:35.64] To draw the line
[01:39.68] A Mason-Dixon Line
[02:05.82] Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon
[02:08.29] But I swear you'll make me mad
[02:11.73] The West will kill us both
[02:13.40] You gullible Geordie lad
[02:17.75] You talk of liberty
[02:21.51] How can America be free
[02:25.66] A Geordie and a baker's boy
[02:29.77] In the forests of the Iroquois
[02:36.54] Now hold your head up, Mason
[02:38.58] See America lies there
[02:42.19] The morning tide has raised
[02:44.00] The capes of Delaware
[02:48.01] Come up and feel the sun
[02:51.92] A new morning has begun
[02:56.03] Another day will make it clear
[03:00.62] Why your stars should guide us here
[03:06.34] We are sailing to Philadelphia
[03:12.39] A world away from the coaly Tyne
[03:16.61] Sailing to Philadelphia
[03:22.38] To draw the line
[03:26.35] A Mason-Dixon Line
[03:31.12] A Mason-Dixon Line