Single Handed Sailor

Song Single Handed Sailor
Artist Dire Straits
Album Dire Straits / Communique

Lyrics

[00:01.30] Dire Straits
[00:02.29]
[00:03.63] Single-Handed Sailor
[00:05.16]
[00:21.39] Two in the morning dry-dock town
[00:25.30] The river rolls in the night
[00:30.02] Little gypsy moth she's all tied down
[00:34.66] She quiver in the wind and the light
[00:37.40]
[00:39.33] Yeah and a sailing ship is just held down in chains
[00:44.31] From the lazy days of sail
[00:49.00] She's just a lying there in silent pain
[00:53.36] He lean on the tourist rail
[00:55.69]
[00:58.77] A mother and her baby and the college of war
[01:03.31] In the concrete graves
[01:07.34] You never wanna fight against the river law
[01:12.55] Nobody rules the waves
[01:15.95] Yeah and on a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
[01:21.83] Around the Cutty Sark
[01:25.56] The single handed sailor goes sailing
[01:30.98] Sailing away in the dark
[01:33.30]
[01:55.03] He's upon the bridge on the self same night
[01:59.07] The mariner of dry dock land
[02:03.78] Two in the morning but there's one green light
[02:08.20] And a man on a barge of sand
[02:10.07]
[02:13.33] She's gonna slip away below him
[02:17.81] Away from the things he's done
[02:21.60] But he just shouts 'hey man what you call this thing'
[02:27.37] He could have said 'Pride of London'
[02:31.34] On a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
[02:36.92] Around the Cutty Sark
[02:40.26] Yeah the single handed sailor goes sailing
[02:46.02] Sailing away in the dark
[03:53.92]