Dire Straits
Single Handed Sailor
Single Handed Sailor
Intro:
Two in the morning bright uptown
The river run away in the night
Little Gypsy mare she's all tied down
She put her in the wind and the light
Yeah, the sailing ship is just held down in chains
From the lazy days of sailing
She's just lying there silent in pain
You lean on the tourist rail
A mother and her baby in the college of war
In the concrete grave
You never want to fight against the river law
Nobody rules the waves
Yeah, on a night when the lazy wind is wailing
Around the cutting saw
Single-handed sailor go sailing
Singing away in the dark
He's up on the bridge on the self-say night
A mariner of dried-up land
Two in the morning, well there's one green light
And the man on the barge is sad
She's gonna step away below him
Away from things he's done
But he just shouts, "Hey man whatcha call this thing?"
She could say, "Pride of London"
On a night when the lazy wind is wailing
Around the cutting saw
Yeah, single-handed sailor go sailing
Singing away in the dark