Sailing To Philadelphia

												
Sailing To Philadelphia

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1. I am Jeremiah Dixon, I am a Geordie boy,

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    a glass of wine with you, sir , and the ladies I'll enjoy.

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    All Durham and Northumberland is measured up by my own hand,

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    it was my fate from birth to make my mark upon the earth.

          Em

2. Be calls me Charlie Mason, a stargazer am I,

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    it seems that I was born to chart the evening sky.

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    They'd cut me out for baking bread, but I had other dreams instead,

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    this baker's boy from the west country would join the Royal Society.

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We are sailing      to Philadelphia,      world away from the coaly Tyne,

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sailing to Philadelphia          to draw the line, the Mason    - Dixon Line.

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                 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.

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    You talk of liberty, how can America be free ?

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    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,

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    the morning tide has raised, the capes of Delaware.

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     Come up and feel the sun,     a new morning is begun,

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    another day will make it clear, why your stars should guide us here.

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We are sailing      to Philadelphia,      world away from the coaly Tyne,

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sailing to Philadelphia          to draw the line,

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the Mason    - Dixon Line,      the Mason     -Dixon Line

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(capo 2nd)