james taylor & mark knoffler

Subject: James Taylor & Mark Mnoffler
From: GUEST,skippy
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 05:05 PM

My wife (bless her)is scatching together odd pieces of a song from the radio , at the rate she is going it will take approx 400 years to get the lot in the right order!
It is (as above)sung by James Taylor & Mark Knoffler (hope the spelling is right) Subject is "Mason / Dixon" can anyone point me to the CD this is on or all least supply the words. Then she can spend hours learning it & years refusing to sing it!

Regard yet again Skippy

Subject: RE: james taylor & mark knoffler
From: pxp
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 05:25 PM

sailing to philadelphia

Subject: RE: james taylor & mark knoffler
From: BanjoRay
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 05:34 PM

The song's called "Sailing To Philadelphia", and it's on a Mark Knopfler CD of the same name. James Taylor guests on the one track.
It's a fine song on a fine CD.

Sailing To Philadelphia
by Mark Knopfler

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 baking 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
Tou 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 has 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

Subject: RE: james taylor & mark knoffler
From: BanjoRay
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 05:35 PM

Beaten to it yet again! AAARRGHHH!

Ray

Subject: RE: james taylor & mark knoffler
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 05:39 PM

pxp & banjoray thank you so much for that!
I must admit that she is a bit of a non believer about Mudcat - this will help!
I will of course now go & buy the CD.
Regards & thank again Skippy

Subject: RE: james taylor & mark knoffler
From: michaelr
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 08:56 PM

Skippy -- just a sidenote: Knopfler's new CD "The Ragpicker's Dream" is even better.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: james taylor & mark knoffler
From: BuckMulligan
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 10:11 PM

Buy 'em both! "Philadelphia" also has a terrific duet with Van Morrison. What it doesn't have is enough of Knopfler's guitar, but what's there's great. "Ragpicker" has more.

Subject: RE: james taylor & mark knoffler
From: GUEST,boobook
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 10:56 PM

Hi Skippy - are you from the land downunder, where the beer does flow and the men chunder? (I live in Sydney)

But anyway, Philadelphia is a great song isn't it? And James Taylor's voice, despite his drug abuse has retained its beautiful and distinctive tone.

Subject: RE: james taylor & mark knoffler
From: alanabit
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 04:31 AM

Wasn't James Taylor's drug abuse back in the sixties? I thought he had been clean for years now.

Subject: RE: james taylor & mark knoffler
From: GUEST,boobook
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 05:02 AM

You're right - he's in non-active addiction. But for us mere mortals, the abuse he heaped on his voice and brain through drugs and alcohol would have destroyed a lesser person. (look at Ozzy! - thank god he has such a smart wife)

Subject: RE: james taylor & mark knoffler
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 07:37 AM

JT has atoned for his usage in many ways, not the least of which was his generous donation to the Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed which allowed us to open the new wing which houses the The James Taylor Rehab Clinic for Catatonic Blandness.

Spaw

Subject: RE: james taylor & mark knoffler
From: Grab
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 08:14 AM

"Sands of Nevada" and "Prairie Wedding" on the same album are much better songs. To be honest, the singles "What it is" and "Sailing to Philadephia" are by way of being the weakest songs on the CD.

Graham.