Single Handed Sailor — текст песни (Mark Knopfler)

Two in the morning dry-dock town

The river rolls away in the night

Little gypsy moth shes 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

Shes just a lying there in silent 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



Hes upon the bridge on the self same night

The mariner of dry dock land

Two in the morning but theres one green light

And a man on a barge of sand



Shes a gonna slip away below him

Away from the things hes 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