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Dire Straits
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Single Handed Sailor
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Baritone Sax
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Two in the morning
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dry dock town,
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the river rolls away in the night.
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Little gyp - sy moth she's
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she quiver in the wind and the light.
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yeah, and a sailng ship just
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held down in chains
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From the la - zy days of
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sail
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She's just a lying there in
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silent pain
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He lean on the tourist rail
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A mother and her baby and the col - lege of war
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in the concrete graves
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You never wanna fight against the
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river law
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Nobody rules the waves.
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On a night
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when the lazy wind is a-
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wailng
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around the Cutty Sark
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the single …
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sailor
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sailng
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sailng away in the dark
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He's up on the bridge on the self same night,
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A mariner of dry dock land.
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Two in the morning but there's a
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one green light,
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And a man on a barge of sand
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She's a gonna slip aw-ay below
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him,
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Away from the things he's done.
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But he
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just shouts
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"Hey man,
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what you call this thing?"
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He could have said
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"Pride of London."
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On a night
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wailng
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around the Cutty Sark
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the single …
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sailng away in the dark
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