Dire Straights Single Handed Sailor Lyrics

Single Handed Sailor Lyrics

Two in the morning, dry-dock town 

 The rivers rolls away in the night 

 Little gypsy moth she's all tied down 

 She quiver in the wind and the light 

  

 Yeah and a sailing ship just held down in chains 

 From the lazy days of sail 

 It's just lying there in silent pain 

 He lean on the turist rail 

  

 A mother and her baby and the colege war 

 and the concrete graves 

 You never win against the river law 

 Nobody rules the waves 

 Yeah and on the night when the lazy wind is a-wailing 

 Around the Cutty Sark 

 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 is one green light 

 And the man on the barge of sand 

 She's gonna slip away below him 

 Away from the things he's done 

 But he just shouts "Hey man, what do you call this thing?" 

 He could have said "Pride of London" 

 On the night when the lazy wind is a-wailing 

 Around the Cutty Sark 

 Yeah the single handed sailor goes sailing 

 Sailing away in the dark