I am Jeremiah Dixon
I am a Geordie boy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I'll enjoy
All Durham…
…and Northumberland
Is measured up by my own hand
It was my fate from birth
To make my mark upon the earth
He calls me Charlie Mason
A stargazer am I
It seems that…
…from the west country
Would join the Royal Society
We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
A Mason…
I am Jeremiah Dixon
I am a Geordie boy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I'll enjoy
All Durham…
…and Northumberland
Is measured up by my own hand
It was my fate from birth
To make my mark upon the earth
He calls me Charlie Mason
A stargazer am I
It seems that…
This baker's boy from the West Country
Would join the Royal Society
We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the Coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia to draw the line
The Mason…
I am Jeremiah Dixon
I am a Geordie boy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I'll enjoy
All Durham…
…and Northumberland
Is measured up by my own hand
It was my fate from birth
To make my mark upon the earth
He calls me Charlie Mason
A stargazer am I
It seems that…
…from the West Country
Would join the Royal Society
We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the Coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia to draw the line
The Mason…
I am Jeremiah Dixon
I am a Geordie boy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I'll enjoy
All Durham…
…and Northumberland
Is measured up by my own hand
It was my fate from birth
To make my mark upon the earth
He calls me Charlie Mason
A stargazer am I
It seems that…
…from the west country
Would join the Royal Society
We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
The Mason…
…winches in their tires
All back with the mudflaps
Next to the hood where if you drive down the wrong streets you get shot…
…know
Cause I'm a southern gentleman, I probably tell better jokes
So watch while me and Tribe and Gary S. reppin' it steady
With…
Where Elvis co-opted black culture while shakin' his hips
Where nothing's sweet except iced tea that we sip
South of the Mason Dixon…
I am Jeremiah Dixon
I am a Geordie boy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I'll enjoy
All Durham…
…and Northumberland
Is measured up by my own hand
It was my fate from birth
To make my mark upon the earth...
He calls me Charlie Mason
A stargazer am I
It seems that…
This baker's boy from the west country
Would join the Royal Society...
We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
A Mason…
…b>Knopfler:
I am Jeremiah Dixon
I am a Geordie Boy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I'll enjoy
All Durham…
…from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
The Mason-Dixon line
Taylor:
Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon…
…should guide us here...
Both:
We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
The Mason-Dixon line…
I am Jeremiah Dixon I am a Geordie boy
A glass of wine with you sir and the ladies I'll enjoy
All Durham…
…and Northumberland is measured up by my own hand
It was my fate from birth to make my mark upon the earth
He calls me Charlie Mason a stargazer am I
It seems that…
…from the west country
would join the Royal Society...
We are sailing to Philadelphia a world away form the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia to draw the line
The Mason…
…back support
He like a bar stool
So go ahead do your drive by
I'm a draw tools, you fire we gon' fan back at you 'til it's all…
…they get shot
I should've did him like Cassidy tell 'em put wild cake up
Cause how you gon' battle me with a style that I made up
Remember…
…you can rip a Big T
Hollow hit me like telling these jail stories like...
"I ain't know that honey bun on the bed wasn't prepared…
Head south in the mornin'
Just take off with no warnin'
Tell your boss you need a change of scene
Head south if you're feelin…
…'
Your homesick heart is reelin'
An' get yourself a bowl of butter beans
Anywhere east of the Rio Grande
Get you a cane pole…
…in your hand
Fry a mess of fish up on the bank
You cross that Mason-Dixon line
Leave your cares an' worries behind
Sit out under a…
…no excuse
Just my intuition telling me we shouldn't reproduce
[Verse 2]
I know I have to end it
But pretend to just suspend it
By contending that…
I'm busy all week
I let the foregone linger on
Text back with an emoticon
Withdraw from you by being oblique
Inside I know…
…in comedy bands
We see your faults but not our own
Then we wonder why we're all alone
We fill you up with maybes, excuses, and stalls
But like a…
Head south in the morning, just take off with no warning
Tell your boss you need a change of scene
Head south if you're feeling…
…your homesick heart is reeling
And get yourself a bowl of butterbeans
Anywhere east of the Rio Grande
Gets you a cane pole…
…in your hand
Fry a mess of fish up on the bank
Cross that Mason-Dixon line, leave your cares and worries behind
Sit out under a…
…[Verse 1: D. Thrash]
You can find me in the south
With a case of wheat hangin' in my mouth
A Bud Light beer in my hand
And a…
…ring in my pants from a dip can
I'm a real country boy that's right
Talk with an accent on the mic
But I still got me a…
…Dixon
In the state of GA, yeah
And I made friends with a can of brew
Yeah Bud Light
And now we hang out all the time
All…
…are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter, punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere that seems to know…
…the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad! You've got to say “I'm a…
…like a party in heaven thrown above me
If you love me you should let me know, heard life kinda short
‘86 delivered to my parents by…
…are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter, punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere that seems to know…
…the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad! You've got to say “I'm a…
…see most of it
30 on a jet ski, 40 makin' the ocean twitch
I draw attention like every line I open with
I'm just tryna double up…