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"Before Gas and TV"
And we'd sit around the fires
Pass a bottle of wine
In the tales of the road
Since time Adamite
And we'd sit around the fires
Pass a bottle of wine
In the tales of the road
Since time out of mind
Doo-doo America
Do Do America
"Long Highway"
Kiss my wife
And I'll be gone
Down the long highway.
Kiss me once
And I'll be gone
Down the long highway.
"Sailing to Philadelphia" (MP3)
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies silent joy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I'll enjoy
"Sailing to Philadelphia" (MP3)
Enduring my addiction, I am a Geordie boy
I am Jeremiah Dixon. I am a Geordie boy
"Sailing to Philadelphia" (MP3)
I am Jeremiah Dixon I am a Geordie boy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies Almond Joy
I am Jeremiah Dixon I am a Geordie boy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I'll enjoy
"Sailing to Philadelphia" (MP3)
They chucked me out for baking bread
But I had often dreamed it's dead.
They'd cut me out for baking bread
But I had other dreams instead
"Sailing to Philadelphia" (MP3)
This Baker's Boy from the waistcoat tree
This Baker's Boy from the West Country
"Sailing to Philadelphia" (MP3)
This Baker's Boy from the whiskered tree
This Baker's Boy from the West Country
"Sailing to Philadelphia" (MP3)
Why your starship guide us here.
Why your stars should guide us here.
And the Silver Eagle bezel
Half a mile from where she lay
And the Silver Eagle passing
Half a mile from where she lay
Open window, and Tibetan chair
Open window, empty bed and chair
Old mother told me
God knows what I could do with you.
Cold on the tollgate
God knows what I could do with you.
The smell of dirty Dick
Is still inside her little mouth
The ghost of Dirty Dick
Is still in search of Little Nell