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Misc: Other : Mark Knopfler

  1. Walk Of Life
  2. Romeo And Juliet

  3. Sailing To Philadelphia
  4. Song For Sonny Liston

Walk Of Life

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Woo hoo Woo hoo
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Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby, What I Say? Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay
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He got the action, he got the motion
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Oh yeah, the boy can play
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Dedication, devotion
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Turning all the night-time into the day
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He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman
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He do the song about the knife
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He do the walk, he do the walk of life
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Yeah, he do the walk of life
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Woo hoo
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Here comes Johnny gonna tell you the story Hand me down my walkin' shoes Here come Johnny with the power and the glory Backbeat the talkin' blues
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He got the action, he got the motion
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Oh yeah, the boy can play
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Dedication, devotion
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Turning all the night-time into the day
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He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman
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He do the song about the knife
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He do the walk, he do the walk of life
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Yeah, he do the walk of life
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Woo hoo hoo
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Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say? Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay
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He got the action, he got the motion
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Oh yeah, the boy can play
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Dedication, devotion
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Turning all the night-time into the day
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And after all the violence and double talk
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There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife
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You do the walk, yeah, you do the walk of life
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You do the walk of life
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Woo hoo

Romeo And Juliet

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Intro
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 A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade Laying everybody low with a love song that he made Finds a streetlight steps out of the shade Says something like, you and me babe, how about it? Juliet says, hey it's Romeo, you nearly gimme me a heart attack He's underneath the window, she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that Anyway what you gonna do about it? Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start And I bet and you exploded in my heart And I forget, I forget the movie song When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet? Come up on different streets they both were streets of shame Both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals? Well you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold You promised me everything you promised me thick and thin, yeah Now you just say oh Romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him Juliet, when we made love you used to cry You said, I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die There's a place for us, you know the movie song When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet? I can't do the talk like they talk on TV And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be I can't do everything, but I'd do anything for you I can't do anything except be in love with you And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be All I do is keep the beat and bad company All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme Juliet I'd do the stars with you any time Juliet, when we made love you used to cry You said, I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die There's a place for us, you know the movie song When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet? A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade Laying everybody low with a love song that he made Finds a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade Says something like, you and me babe, how about it?

Sailing To Philadelphia

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I am Jeremiah Dixon
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I am a Geordie boy
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A glass of wine with you, sir
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And the ladies I'll enjoy
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All Durham and Northumberland
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Is measured up by my own hand
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It was my fate from birth
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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
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We are sailing to Philadelphia
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A world away from the coally Tyne
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Sailing to Philadelphia
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To draw the line
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The Mason-Dixon Line
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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 has begun Another day will make it clear
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Why your stars should guide us here We are sailing to Philadelphia A world away from the coally Tyne Sailing to Philadelphia To draw the line
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The Mason-Dixon Line
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The Mason-Dixon Line
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Song For Sonny Liston

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So many mouths to feed on the farm Sonny was the second to the last one born His mamma ran away and his daddy beat him bad And he grew up wild good love he never had He had a left like Henry's hammer A right like Betty Bamalam Rode with the muggers in the dark and dread And all them sluggers went down like lead Well he hung with the hoods he wouldn't stroke the fans But he had dynamite in both his hands Boom bam like the slammer door The bell and the can and the bodies on the floor
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Beware the bear's in town, somebody's money says
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The bear's going down, yeah, the bear never smiles
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Sonny's going down for miles and miles
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Sonny's going down for miles and miles The writers didn't like him, the fight game jocks With his lowlife backers and his hands like rocks They didn't want to have a bogey man They didn't like him and he didn't like them
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Black Cadillac, alligator boots
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Money in the pockets of his sharkskin suits
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Some say the bear took a flop
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They couldn't believe it when they saw him drop He had a left like Henry's hammer A right like Betty Bamalam Rode with the muggers in the dark and dread And all them sluggers went down like lead Joe Louis was his hero, he tried to be the same But a criminal child wears a ball and chain So the civil rights people didn't want him on the throne And the hacks and the cops wouldn't leave him alone
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Beware the bear's in town, somebody's money says
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The bear's going down yeah, the bear never smiles
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Sonny's going down for miles and miles
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Sonny's going down for miles and miles At the foot of his bed with his feet on the floor There was dope in his veins and a pistol on the drawer There was no investigation as such He hated needles but he knew too much
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Criss-crossed on his back
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Scars from his daddy like slavery tracks
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The second-last child was the second-last king
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Never again was it the same in the ring He had a left like Henry's hammer A right like Betty Bamalam Rode with the muggers in the dark and dread And all them sluggers went down like lead They never could be sure about the day he was born A motherless child set to working on the farm And they never could be sure about the day he died The bear was the king they cast aside
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Beware the bear's in town
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Somebody's money says, the bear's going down
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Yeah, the bear never smiles
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Sonny's going down for miles and miles
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Sonny's going down for miles and miles