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Sailing to Philadelphia  Knopfler Mark

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

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

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

        C     - D            Am   - D          C      - D            G


the Mason - Dixon Line, the Mason -Dixon Line

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(capo 2nd)

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