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Sailing To Philadelphia by Mark Knopfler - Guitar Chords

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Version 1 Version 2

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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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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
    E             A      D    Dadd9/A
All Durham and Northumberland
   E              A      D    Dmaj7/A
Is measured up by my own hand
E          A         D     Dadd9/A
 It was my fate from birth
   Dmaj7/A               E      Eadd9
To make my mark upon the earth...

[Verse 2]
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He calls me Charlie Mason
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A stargazer am I
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 It seems that I was born
   A                D    Dmaj7/A
To chart the evening sky
       E              A      D     Dadd9/A
They'd cut me out for baking bread
     E          A       D      Dmaj7/A
But I had other dreams instead
     E                    A        D   Dadd9/A
This baker's boy from the west country
      Dmaj7/A              E     Eadd9
Would join the Royal Society...

[Chorus]
       A     E         F#m   D/A
We are sailing to Philadelphia
A         C#m           Bm    E
 A world away from the coaly Tyne
C#m             F#m    D/A  F#m
Sailing to Philadelphia
F#m/A          E
  To draw the line
   D/A   E     Aadd9
A Mason-Dixon Line

[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon
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But I swear you'll make me mad
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 The West will kill us both
    A                D   Dmaj7/A
You gullible Geordie lad
E            A    D  Dadd9/A
 You talk of liberty
    E         A    D    Dmaj7/A
How can America be free
  E              A      D   Dadd9/A
A Geordie and a baker's boy
       Dmaj7              E      Eadd9
In the forests of the Iroquois...

[Verse 4]
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Now hold your head up, Mason
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See America lies there
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 The morning tide has raised
     A            D   Dmaj7/A
The capes of Delaware
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 Come up and feel the sun
E              A     D   Dmaj7/A
 A new morning has begun
 E               A       D     Dadd9/A
Another day will make it clear
  Dmaj7                        Eadd9
Why your stars should guide us here...

[Chorus]
       A     E         F#m   D
We are sailing to Philadelphia
A         C#m           Bm    E
 A world away from the coaly Tyne
C#m             F#m    D/A  F#m
Sailing to Philadelphia
F#m/A          E
  To draw the line
  D/F# E/G#   D/A  A
A Mason-Dixon Line
   D/A   E     Aadd9
A Mason-Dixon Line

[Outro]
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| F#madd11 | F#madd11 | Eadd9 | E     |   x10

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We also have 7 songs by Mark Knopfler

• Are We In Trouble Now
• Darling Pretty
• Done With Bonaparte
• Piper To The End
• Postcards From Paraguay
• Sailing To Philadelphia
• Storybook Love

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