Sailing to Philadelphia

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1. I am Jeremiah Dixon, I am a Geordie boy, 
 
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    a glass of wine with you, sir , and the ladies I'll enjoy. 
 
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    All Durham and Northumberland is measured up by my own hand, 
 
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    it was my fate from birth to make my mark upon the earth. 
 
          Em 
2. He calls me Charlie Mason, a stargazer am I, 
 
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    it seems that I was born to chart the evening sky. 
 
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    They'd cut me out for baking bread, but I had other dreams instead, 
 
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    this baker's boy from the west country would join the Royal Society. 
 
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We are sailing      to Philadelphia,      world away from the coaly Tyne, 
 
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sailing to Philadelphia          to draw the line, the Mason    - Dixon Line. 
 
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                          Em 
3. Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon, but I swear you'll make me mad, 
 
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    the West will kill us both, you gullible Geordie lad. 
 
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    You talk of liberty, how can America be free ? 
 
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    A Geordie and a baker's boy in the forests of the Iroquois. 
 
            Em 
 
4. Now hold your head up, Mason, see America lies there, 
 
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    the morning tide has raised, the capes of Delaware. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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     Come up and feel the sun,     a new morning is begun, 
 
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    another day will make it clear, why your stars should guide us here. 
 
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We are sailing      to Philadelphia,      world away from the coaly Tyne, 
 
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sailing to Philadelphia          to draw the line, 
 
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the Mason    - Dixon Line,      the Mason     -Dixon Line 
 
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