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Joe Offer ADD: Sailing to Philadelphia(Mark Knopfler) (11) RE: Lyr/Chor: Sailing to Philadelphia(Knopfler/Taylor) 31 Jan 25


Thanks, Geordie-Peorgie. I wonder if I can make it work on Mudcat. Well, not very well. Better to click G-P's link above.:

(capo 2nd)

    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,

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    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.






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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

- Em - G - Em - D          - Em - G - Em - D ....


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