[ti:The Ragpickers Dream] [ar:Mark Knopfler] [al:The Ragpickers Dream 穷人的梦] [offset:0] [00:12.72]When Jack Frost came for Christmas [00:16.16]With a brass monkey date [00:19.22]The rail-king and the scarecrow [00:21.76]Hopped a Florida freight [00:24.68]And they blew on their paper cups [00:28.52]And stared through the steam [00:30.71]Then they drank half a bottle [00:34.09]Of Ragpicker's Dream where [00:37.08]The whiskey keeps following [00:39.83]Cold pitchers of beer [00:43.76]Me and my associate [00:45.70]Like the clientele here get [00:48.74]The onions and the 'taters [00:52.89]Rib-eyes on the grill [00:55.71]Toothpicks and luckies [00:57.64]And a coffee refill as [01:12.72]The rail-king lay rocking [01:16.94]He was leaving the ground [01:18.74]Then he was flying like Santa Claus [01:22.60]Over the town where [01:24.79]He came to the window [01:27.91]Of a house by a stream [01:31.16]It was a family Christmas [01:33.97]In the Ragpicker's Dream there [01:38.40]Were kids at the table [01:42.59]All aglow in the light [01:45.34]Music in the wintertime [01:47.53]Sure carries at night there [01:50.72]Was turkey and gravy [01:54.40]Pie and ice cream [01:58.09]And gifts for each and everyone [02:00.91]In the Ragpicker's Dream where [02:03.97]The red-eye keeps tumbling [02:06.90]In our glasses of beer [02:10.79]Me and my associate [02:12.84]Like the service in here there's [02:16.57]A ten for your trouble [02:19.01]You have beautiful hair [02:22.14]Make the last one two doubles [02:24.82]It's a cold one out there where [02:29.62]The scarecrow and the rail-king [02:33.05]Have started to dance [02:35.54]But a nightstick and a billyclub [02:38.41]Won't give peace a chance here [02:41.35]I think they went thataways [02:45.16]Your song and dance team [02:48.03]Heading home for the holidays [02:52.54]With the Ragpicker's Dream on [02:56.53]His knees like a fighter [03:00.28]The rail-riding king [03:03.16]Like a sack of potatoes [03:05.34]Like a bull in the ring where [03:08.61]The scarecrow falls over [03:12.17]With a tear in the seam [03:19.29]Home for the rover [03:22.10]In the Ragpicker's Dream where [03:25.22]The red-eye keeps tumbling [03:28.14]Like tears in our beer [03:31.91]Me and my associate [03:33.89]Like the ambience here where [03:37.06]They cornered two castaways [03:40.75]In a white flashlight beam [03:47.38]Merry Christmas and happy days [03:50.69]In the Ragpicker's Dream