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Song by Dire
Straits dedicated to Francis Chichester
"Single Handed Sailor"
Two in the morning, dry-dock town
The rivers rolls away in the night
Little gypsy moth she's all tied down
She quiver in the wind and the light
Yeah and a sailing ship just held down in chains
From the lazy days of sail
Its just lying there in silent pain
He lean on the tourist rail
A mother and her baby and the college war
And the concrete graves
You never wanna against the river law
Nobody rules the waves
Yeah and on the night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
Around the Cutty Sark
Single handed sailor goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
He's upon the bridge on the self same night
The mariner of dry dock land
Two in the morning, but there is one green light
And the man on the barge of sand
She's gonna slip away below him
Away from the things hes done
But he just shouts hey man, what do you call this thing?
He could have said pride of London
On the night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
Around the Cutty Sark
Yeah the single handed sailor goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
From
the album "Communique" by
Dire
Straits 1984
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Mark
Knopfler who wrote and performed the Dire Straits song “Single Handed
Sailor”. Was inspired to write the song when he saw the Gipsy Moth IV
in Greenwich London. The vessel was is a state of disrepair prior to
the mammoth restoration project, which has ensured that Gipsy Moth IV
sails again. |
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This
uncorrected Proof of Sir Francis Chichester's book was published in
1968
It
was distributed to a select number of people for reading and
amendments prior to publishing, generally these are not available to
the general public and strict laws apply to the distribution of these
proofs |
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