Single-Handed Sailor Lyrics - Dire Straits
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Two in the morning dry-dock town
The river rolls in the night
Little gypsy moth she's all tied down
She quiver in the wind and the light
Yeah and a sailing ship is just held down in chains
From the lazy days of sail
She's just a lying there in silent pain
He lean on the tourist rail
A mother and her baby and the college of war
In the concrete graves
You never wanna fight against the river law
Nobody rules the waves
Yeah and on a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
Around the Cutty Sark
The single handed sailor goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
He's upon the bridge on the self same night
The mariner of dry dock land
Two in the morning but there's one green light
And a man on a barge of sand
She's gonna slip away below him
Away from the things he's done
But he just shouts 'hey man what you call this thing'
He could have said 'Pride of London'
On a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
Around the Cutty Sark
Yeah the single handed sailor goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
The river rolls in the night
Little gypsy moth she's all tied down
She quiver in the wind and the light
Yeah and a sailing ship is just held down in chains
From the lazy days of sail
She's just a lying there in silent pain
He lean on the tourist rail
A mother and her baby and the college of war
In the concrete graves
You never wanna fight against the river law
Nobody rules the waves
Yeah and on a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
Around the Cutty Sark
The single handed sailor goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
He's upon the bridge on the self same night
The mariner of dry dock land
Two in the morning but there's one green light
And a man on a barge of sand
She's gonna slip away below him
Away from the things he's done
But he just shouts 'hey man what you call this thing'
He could have said 'Pride of London'
On a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
Around the Cutty Sark
Yeah the single handed sailor goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
Writer: KNOPFLER, MARK
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Single-Handed Sailor | Reviewer: Jeffrey Day | 8/19/10
This song send chills … haunting imagery … an adventuresome thrill so evocative you can perceive the roiling black currents and the call of the sea. A masterpiece I've always gladly returned to for another listen.
Poetry | Reviewer: Charles G | 2/18/10
Few artists write music like this anymore - designed to move your heart and make you take a look at the world around you in a different way. There's a little bit of melancholy, a little romanticism, all mixed up with a beautifully haunting melody and a sublime use of the lead and bass guitar. It's better than folk music, better than rock, but it's a child of both. As much as I love Dire Straits, they never did anything before or since that I love as much as this song.
The Best on the album..... | Reviewer: Jon Bingham | 7/6/07
Today is all about, less and less true living. But we still cherish excellent music....And this track still, after all these years gives me so much gratifaction. So full of rock but so still horizontal.....
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