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Sailing To Philadelphia  Mark Knopfler



    Em - G - Em - D

[Em]                         
1. I am Jeremiah Dixon, I am a Geordie boy,

                                [G]                 [C] 
a glass of wine with you, sir , and the ladies I'll enjoy.

[D]            [G]       [C]    [D]          [G]      [C] 
All Durham and Northumberland is measured up by my own hand,

[D]         [G]      [C]     [Em]                   [D]       ~
it was my fate from birth to make my mark upon the earth.

[Em]                          
2. He calls me Charlie Mason, a stargazer am I,

                    [G]      [C]
it seems that I was born to chart the evening sky.

[D]             [G]         [C]    [D]         [G]       [C]
They'd cut me out for baking bread, but I had other dreams instead,

[D]              [G]          [C]      [Em]                 [D] ~
this baker's boy from the west country would join the Royal Society.

[G]         [D]      [Em]         [C]      [G]                [Am]    [D]
We are sailing to Philadelphia, world away from the coaly Tyne,

[G]                 [Em]      [C]         [Em]    [D]   [C]      [D]   [G]
sailing to Philadelphia to draw the line, the Mason - Dixon Line.

    - Em - G - Em - D

[Em]          
3. Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon, but I swear you'll make me mad,

                            [G]                  [C]
the West will kill us both, you gullible Geordie lad.

[D]     [G]    [C]   [D]     [G]        [C]
You talk of liberty, how can America be free ?

[D]       [G]          [C ] [Em ]                 [D ]  
A Geordie and a baker's boy in the forests of the Iroquois.

[Em]                        
4. Now hold your head up, Mason, see America lies there,

                             [G]          [C]
the morning tide has raised, the capes of Delaware.

[D]        [G]      [C]      [D]   [G]        [C]
Come up and feel the sun, a new morning is begun,

[D]             [G]     [C]     [Em ]                 [D]  
another day will make it clear, why your stars should guide us here.

[G]                 [D]   [Em]  [C]       [G]                [Am]   [D]
We are sailing to Philadelphia, world away from the coaly Tyne,

[G]        [Em]     [C]          [Em]     [D]
sailing to Philadelphia to draw the line,

[D]   [C]      [D]   [G]        [D]   [C]      [D]   [G]
the Mason - Dixon Line, the Mason Dixon Line
- Em - G - Em - D - Em - G - Em - D ....


(capo 2nd)

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