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Lyr/Chor: Sailing to Philadelphia(Knopfler/Taylor)

GUEST,mel pitts 21 Feb 01 - 01:39 PM
Mrrzy 21 Feb 01 - 01:43 PM
GUEST,Chris Hall 21 Feb 01 - 01:48 PM
Grab 22 Feb 01 - 09:10 AM
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Blind lemon steve 04 Nov 01 - 10:43 AM
Sorcha 04 Nov 01 - 11:03 AM
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Subject: Sailing to Philadelphia
From: GUEST,mel pitts
Date: 21 Feb 01 - 01:39 PM

Has anyone done a tab or chord listing for Sailing to Philadelphia by Mark Knopfler & James Taylor yet?


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Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Sailing to Philadelphia
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Feb 01 - 01:43 PM

Is this the one about With me bundle on me shoulder Sure there's noone could be bolder, I'm leaving now the place where I was booooooooorning, I (something something) notion for to cross the briny ocean, and I'm off to Philadelphia in the mooooooooorning...?


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Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Sailing to Philadelphia
From: GUEST,Chris Hall
Date: 21 Feb 01 - 01:48 PM

I believe he means the Mark Knopfler song, 'Sailing to Philadelphia' about Mason and Dixon, the 2 english surveyors. If no-one else has anything kicking around maybe I will work out the music tonight.... Cheers Chris


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Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Sailing to Philadelphia
From: Grab
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 09:10 AM

Hey, another MK fan! I thought I was the only one!

S2P is nice, but Prairie Wedding is better - that's on my "to do" list.

Grab.


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Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Sailing to Philadelphia
From: GUEST,b1jsph@home.com
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 09:25 PM

Has anyone figured the chords out to Sailing to Philadelphia?


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Subject: Sailing to Philadelphia
From: Blind lemon steve
Date: 04 Nov 01 - 10:43 AM

Can Anyone give me the chords for sailing to Philadelphia, the song by Mark Knopfler and James TAylor


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Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Sailing to Philadelphia
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Nov 01 - 11:03 AM

Tab, lyrics and chords here.


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Subject: Lyr Add: Sailing to Philadelphia
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Nov 01 - 11:58 AM

And just the lyrics, now that I am awake:

SAILING TO PHILADELPHIA

I am Jeremiah Dixon
I am a Geordie boy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I'll enjoy
All Durham and Northumberland
Is measured up by my own hand
It was my fate from birth
To make my mark upon the earth...

He calls me Charlie Mason
A stargazer am I
It seems that I was born
To chart the evening sky
They'd cut me out for picking bread
But I had other dreams instead
This baker's boy from the west country
Would join the Royal Society...

We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
The Mason-Dixon line

Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon
But I swear you'll make me mad
The west will kill us both
You gullible Geordie lad
You talk of liberty
How can America be free
A Geordie and a baker's boy
In the forests of the Iroquois...

Now hold your head up Mason
See America lies there
The morning tide has raised
The capes of Delaware
Come up and feel the sun
A new morning is begun
Another day will make it clear
Why your stars should guide us here...

We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
The Mason-Dixon line


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Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Sailing to Philadelphia
From: GUEST,peterjbenson@comcast.net
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 09:12 PM

Driving me nuts too!


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Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Sailing to Philadelphia
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 31 Jan 25 - 04:51 PM

https://www.e-chords.com/chords/mark-knopfler/sailing-to-philadelphia

This works!


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Subject: RE: Lyr/Chor: Sailing to Philadelphia(Knopfler/Taylor)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Jan 25 - 10:09 PM

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,

                                                    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.






2
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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