Single Handed Sailor Lyrics - Communiqué - Dire Straits

Two in the morning dry-dock town 

The river rolls away in the night 

Little Gypsy Moth she's all tied down 

She quiver in the wind and the light 

Yeah and the sailing ship just held down in chains 

From the lazy days of sail 

She's just a lying there in silent pain 

He lean on the tourist rail 

A mother and her baby and the College of war 

In the concrete graves 

You never wanna fight against the river law 

Nobody rules the waves 

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Yeah, and on a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing 

Around the Cutty Sark 

The single-handed sailor goes sailing 

Sailing away in the dark 

He's up on the bridge on the self-same night 

The mariner of dry dock land 

Two in the morning but there's one green light 

And a man on a barge of sand 

She's a gonna slip away below him 

Away from things he's done 

But he just shouts, "Hey man what you call this thing?" 

He Could have said "Pride of London" 

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On a night when the lazy wind is wailing 

Around the Cutty Sark 

Yeah the single-handed sailor goes sailing 

Sailing away in the dark