One Song At A Time

Song One Song At A Time
Artist Mark Knopfler
Album Down The Road Wherever (Deluxe)

Lyrics

[00:00.00] One song at a time
[00:41.89] My whistle under the archways
[00:44.07] Still echoes down the street
[00:47.16] All the way back to Deptford days
[00:49.79] Nights down by The Creek
[00:51.89] Notes as big as river boats
[00:54.54] Still echoing through the clubs
[00:57.08] With the horns of the trains
[00:58.03] Down the old back lanes
[00:59.59] And the lights of the corner pubs
[01:04.40] In a taproom lined with mirrors
[01:06.60] There's a man there at the bar
[01:09.22] Reminds you of somebody
[01:11.83] He says I know who you are
[01:16.93] He's right, I know I could be him
[01:19.58] But anyway who is who?
[01:22.22] You could be looking at
[01:22.93] What he's looking at
[01:24.04] And he's looking at you
[01:26.06] And I'll be out of this place
[01:28.27] And down the road wherever
[01:33.39] There but for the grace, etcetera
[01:36.28] I'll see you later but it's 1979
[01:41.59] And I'm picking my way out of here
[01:44.10] One song at a time
[02:09.05] The slaving ports of plunder
[02:11.23] Used to stink to heaven on high
[02:14.64] Companions of honour
[02:16.28] Always were in short supply
[02:21.51] The Bristol ships and Liverpool's
[02:24.14] On every tide they came
[02:26.85] The times they may have changed, my friend
[02:28.93] Some people stay the same
[02:31.00] And I'll be out of this place
[02:32.88] And down the road wherever
[02:37.91] There but for the grace, etcetera
[02:40.50] I'll see you later but it's 1879
[02:46.36] And I'm picking my way out of here
[02:49.03] One song at a time
[03:14.14] A grinning mogul greets the crowd
[03:16.06] At Execution Dock
[03:18.81] All come to see three mutineers
[03:21.02] Turned off at twelve o'clock
[03:26.27] The shyster takes a ringside seat
[03:28.90] As they're bringing them from the jail
[03:31.54] And twenty thousand tickets
[03:33.23] Sold online on premium sale
[03:38.69] So if you need to reach me
[03:40.74] You can leave word at The Pig
[03:43.78] I have no wish to stay around
[03:46.30] To watch that Newgate jig
[03:48.77] Or any more poor old fakers
[03:50.59] Trying to dance in my old shoes
[03:53.66] I'll be gone over the ocean
[03:55.78] With the transatlantic blues
[03:58.30] And I'll be out of this place
[03:58.89] And down the road wherever
[04:05.01] There but for the grace, etcetera
[04:07.88] I'll see you later somewhere down the line
[04:13.67] I'll be picking my way out of here
[04:16.00] One song at a time