Single Handed Sailor

Mark Knopfler

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 sailent 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 rhings 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

Trivia about the song Single Handed Sailor by Dire Straits

On which albums was the song “Single Handed Sailor” released by Dire Straits?
Dire Straits released the song on the albums “Communiqué (Remastered)” in 1979 and “Dire Straits (1980)” in 1980.
Who composed the song “Single Handed Sailor” by Dire Straits?
The song “Single Handed Sailor” by Dire Straits was composed by Mark Knopfler.

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