作曲 : Mark Knopfler
 作词 : Mark Knopfler
Why Aye Man - Mark Knopfler
We had no way of staying afloat

We had to leave on the ferry boat

Economic refugees

On the run to germany

We had the back of maggie's hand

Times were tough in geordieland

We got wor tools and working gear
And humped it all from newcastle to here

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We're the nomad tribes travelling boys
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In the dust and dirt and the racket and the noise
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Drills and hammers diggers and picks
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Mixing concrete laying bricks
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There's english irish scots the lot

United nation's what we've got

Brickies chippies every trade

German building british-made

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Nay more work on maggie's farm

Hadaway down the autobahn

Mine's a portacabin bed

Or a bunk in a nissen hut instead

There's plenty deutschmarks here to earn
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And german tarts are wunderschoen
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German beer is chemical-free
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Germany's alreet with me
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Sometimes I miss my river tyne

But you're my pretty fraulein

Tonight we'll drink the old town dry
Keep wor spirit levels high

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Sometimes I miss my river tyne

But you're my pretty fraulein

Tonight we'll drink the old town dry

Keep wor spirit levels high

Sometimes I miss my river tyne

But you're my pretty fraulein

Tonight we'll drink the old town dry

Keep our spirit levels high