[ti:The Trawlerman's Song] [ar:Mark Knopfler] [al:Shangri-La] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Trawlerman's Song - Mark Knopfler [00:09.34]Composed by:mark knopfler [00:18.68]We're taking on water [00:21.04]Diesel and stores [00:23.18]Laying up awhile before I'm back on board [00:27.26]They're patching her up [00:30.00]To go fishing again [00:33.04]Fishing again [00:36.26]Welding her rudder [00:38.12]Scrubbing her keel [00:40.29]Scars on her belly need time to heal [00:44.27]In the dock [00:47.37]With the trawlermen [00:53.01]I know all the people [00:55.16]There's nobody new [00:57.98]Soon we'll be leaving with the same old crew [01:01.55]On the green water [01:04.90]The tumbling sea [01:10.93]They ain't running like the good old days [01:14.81]Time's just slipping down the old slipways [01:18.66]In the dock [01:22.32]So dear to me [01:28.92]Dark is the night [01:33.13]I need a guiding light to keep me [01:38.03]From foundering [01:39.75]On the rocks [01:45.99]My only prayer [01:50.58]Is just to see you there and at the end [01:54.58]Of my wandering back in the dock [02:01.10]Ah aaa [02:05.36]Aaa [02:09.60]Aaa [02:13.85]Aaaa [02:18.16]Aaa [02:22.40]Aaaa [02:27.87]I could use a layoff getting my strength back [02:31.82]But there's a loan to pay off and a few skipjack [02:35.59]So it's a turn around [02:38.83]Back in the southerly wind [02:42.14]Southerly wind [02:45.51]Pirates coming in to steal our gold [02:48.59]You can count yourself lucky [02:50.79]With a profit in the hold in the dock [02:56.72]When we come in [03:03.17]Dark is the night [03:07.52]I need a guiding light to keep me [03:12.46]From foundering [03:13.98]On the rocks [03:20.34]My only prayer [03:24.65]Is just to see you there at the end [03:29.19]Of my wandering [03:31.53]Back in the dock [03:35.47]Ahlala [03:44.14]Lalala [03:48.44]Lalala [03:52.99]Lalala [03:57.12]Lalala [04:01.07]Lalala