Mighty Man

Song Mighty Man
Artist Mark Knopfler
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Lyrics

[01:09.18] A room on the top floor
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[01:14.85] And the chest all but knackered
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[01:20.80] Two fingers not working
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[01:26.77] And the back's shot to hell
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[01:32.68] It's a lifetime of digging trenches
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[01:38.48] In the cold and wet weather
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[01:44.71] And for laying half the roadway
[01:47.41] In England as well
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[01:53.69] You'd finish in the one place
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[01:59.51] It was straight to the next one
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[02:05.65] And you never could settle
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[02:11.43] And you were always alone
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[02:17.61] Just a drifter in limbo
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[02:23.54] I was best off away son
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[02:29.76] Just one of the thousands
[02:32.50] Who could never go home
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[02:38.71] That's your mighty man son
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[02:44.75] Your mighty man
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[02:51.02] Well the boat and the train ride
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[02:57.04] In a misty November
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[03:03.17] We had the worst of the lodgings
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[03:09.15] And we hated the subs
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[03:15.34] Ma's face on the leaving
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[03:21.36] I will always remember
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[03:27.51] And we wouldn't get paid
[03:29.53] Until they had closed up their pubs
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[04:21.29] And I could stand up on horseback
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[04:27.32] Was the man for the singing
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[04:33.11] Put my hand up for boxing
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[04:38.83] At the fairground on the heath
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[04:44.74] I could play my accordion
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[04:50.84] And charm all of the women
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[04:56.38] And dance round the taproom
[04:59.07] With a chair in my teeth
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[05:05.40] That's your mighty man son
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[05:11.01] Your mighty man
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[05:17.01] That's your mighty man son
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[05:23.00] Your mighty man
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