[ti:Why Aye Man (Live)]
[ar:Mark Knopfler]
[al:Privateering (Super Deluxe Edition)]
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[00:07.17]Why Aye Man(Live) - Mark Knopfler
[00:36.46]We had no way of staying afloat,
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[00:40.64]We had to leave on a ferryboat.
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[00:44.97]Economic refugees,
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[00:49.23]On the run to Germany.
[00:50.96]
[00:53.36]We had the back of Maggie's hand,
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[00:57.80]Times were tough in Geordieland.
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[01:02.29]We got our tools and working gear
[01:03.91]And humped it all from Newcastle to here.
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[01:10.74]Why aye man.
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[01:12.79]Why aye, why aye man.
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[01:15.20]Why aye man,
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[01:17.06]Why aye, why aye man.
[01:19.29]Why aye man.
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[01:21.33]Why aye, why aye man.
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[01:25.71]Why aye, why aye man.
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[01:43.67]We're nomad tribes, travelling boys,
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[01:47.94]In the dust and dirt and the wrecking noise.
[01:50.18]
[01:52.43]Drills and hammers, diggers and picks,
[01:54.31]
[01:57.07]Mixing concrete, laying bricks.
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[02:00.74]There's English, Irish, Scots, the lot.
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[02:04.95]United Nations what we got.
[02:07.04]
[02:09.90]Brickies, chippies, every trade.
[02:11.80]German building, British made.
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[02:18.15]Why aye man.
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[02:20.28]Why aye, why aye man.
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[02:24.57]Why aye, why aye man.
[02:26.90]Why aye man.
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[02:28.85]Why aye, why aye man.
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[02:31.24]Why aye man,
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[02:33.07]Why aye, why aye man.
[02:35.13]
[02:51.32]Nay more work on Maggie's farm.
[02:53.31]
[02:55.90]Haddaway down the autobahn.
[02:57.79]
[02:59.98]Mine's a Portakabin bed,
[03:01.82]
[03:03.78]Or a bunk in a Nissen hut instead.
[03:06.26]
[03:35.33]There's plenty Deutschmarks here to earn.
[03:38.11]
[03:39.67]And German tarts are wundersch枚n.
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[03:44.05]German beer is chemical free.
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[03:48.08]Germany's alright with me.
[03:50.52]
[03:52.27]Sometimes I miss my river Tyne,
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[03:56.69]But you're my pretty fr盲ulein.
[03:59.41]
[04:01.09]Tonight we'll drink the old town dry,
[04:03.03]Keep our spirit levels high.
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[04:09.82]Why aye man.
[04:10.54]
[04:11.94]Why aye, why aye man.
[04:14.13]Why aye man,
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[04:16.11]Why aye, why aye man.
[04:18.26]Why aye man.
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[04:20.32]Why aye, why aye man.
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[04:22.82]Why aye man,
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[04:24.58]Why aye, why aye man.
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[05:00.23]Sometimes I miss my river Tyne,
[05:01.93]
[05:03.68]But you're my pretty fr盲ulein.
[05:05.97]
[05:07.94]Tonight we'll drink the old town dry,
[05:10.24]
[05:12.31]Keep wor spirit levels high.
[05:14.42]
[05:16.62]Sometimes I miss my river Tyne,
[05:18.73]
[05:20.84]But you're my pretty fr盲ulein.
[05:23.01]
[05:25.13]Tonight we'll drink the old town dry,
[05:27.20]
[05:28.98]Keep wor spirit levels high.