Álbum Down The Road Wherever de Mark Knopfler - Canciones

Down The Road Wherever

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  1. Trapper ManVer letra 6:02

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    letra de Trapper Man

    The trapper man's in from the hinterlands

    Filth and grease on his clothes and hands

    From the outermost, the farthermost

    Comes riding in to the trading post

    Got a pack horse loaded up with hides

    Steps in to see the man inside

    I got furs, skins, a little meat too

    Here, I got a good piece just for you



    You take this home to give the wife

    The trapper draws his skinning knife

    Now the fat man's desk is a butcher's block

    The trapper cuts the meat and talks

    You're gonna lose your shirt on a nowhere man

    Lose your shirt in nowhere land

    Back out there is my country

    And you best let this trapper be the trapper

    You need the trapper man

    The trapper man



    If you don't want to be where lightning strikes

    Better let me work the way I like

    You don't want to know how I fill my sacks

    You go out there you don't come back

    You got nature red in tooth and claw

    And you ain't got no rule of law

    And if you don't know nature's way

    All that's gonna stop you being the prey is the trapper

    You need the trapper man

    The trapper man



    You wanna wear them gems and rings

    You wanna show off them shiny things

    Shake your money maker, bro

    Where the movers and the shakers go

    You wanna go do what you do

    Let the gold and silver come to you

    I need you but you need me

    So you best let this trapper be the trapper

    You need the trapper man

    The trapper man



    When he's done his thing and gone his way

    The fat men light cigars and say

    "Holy smokes did you see that?

    We all made money on the trapper cat"

    Sit back in their big ass chairs

    Say, "Boys, that is the man right there"

    I'm the lifeline for your big soft ass

    It's the trapper puts it in first class, the trapper

    You need the trapper man

    The trapper man

  2. Back On The Dance FloorVer letra 5:31

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    Hand me down my high roller Stetson

    Hand me down my smokeless .41

    We're gonna look so sharp when we walk in

    They're gonna be jazzed we come



    We're going for the major comeback

    For the motherlode, the mighty score

    We'll be the toast of every knocked out boogie shack

    Now we're back on the dancefloor



    Going all the way is the only way to go

    The only game in town

    Shake your moneymaker closer to the floor

    Shake 'em on down, shake 'em on down



    Hand me down my two-tone wingtips

    Hand me down my skull head walking cane

    You all gotta wear them shantung gambler suits

    They're gonna be jazzed we came



    We're going for the major comeback

    For the motherlode, the mighty score

    We'll be the toast of every knocked out boogie shack

    Now we're back on the dancefloor



    Going all the way is the only way to go

    The only game in town

    Shake your moneymaker closer to the floor

    Shake 'em on down, shake 'em on down



    We're going for the major comeback

    For the motherlode, the mighty score

    We'll be the toast of every knocked out boogie shack

    Now we're back on the dancefloor

  3. Nobody's Child 4:17
  4. Just A Boy Away From HomeVer letra 5:12

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    letra de Just A Boy Away From Home

    When I was just a boy I'd be kicking a tin

    Take the short cut home through the loony bin

    I never gave much thought to the souls in there

    I was just a boy, too young to care



    Well the years go by and you get to see

    A dream's not the same as reality

    Well a dream or two is going to crash and burn

    And that's the way that you live and learn



    Well it was late one night and I woke at two

    And I lay there thinking the way you do

    But it's a long dark night of the soul

    When those thoughts are turning sad and old



    And then outside on the empty street

    I heard the sound of walking feet

    Well it was just a boy away from home

    And he was singing the song 'You'll Never Walk Alone'

  5. When You LeaveVer letra 4:13

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    letra de When You Leave

    When you leave

    There's cordite in the air

    A ringing in the stillness

    Smoke drifting up the stair



    When you leave

    When you leave

    My heart sounds in my ears

    A beating in the darkness

    A trace of you still here

    When you leave

    When you leave



    Like it or not

    How could I not have fallen for you?

    And now that I'm caught

    How could I not be blue?



    When you leave

    I'll hear the smallest sound

    And turn to look behind me

    As though you're still around

    When you leave

    When you leave

  6. Good On You SonVer letra 5:38

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    letra de Good On You Son

    Flash goes a little hummingbird a darting, whirring thread

    At the screen door by his lemon tree out here with the quick and the dead

    Designer blinds above LA frame the perfect view

    It's gonna be another day of sun and shameless blue



    By his cutting block the time has come for the fruit there by the juicer

    He grinds fresh coffee for himself he's meeting a producer

    The LA Times lies on the stone warming there like bread

    Hey what's not to like out here with the quick and the dead



    Good on you son, good on you

    The Camden shuffle and the old one-two

    Good on you son, good on you a-ha, oh yeah

    Good on you son, good on you

    The Camden shuffle and the old one-two



    You wanna know what happiness is? In his eye there's a hunter's gleam

    Something to look forward to this cat's gonna get the cream

    Skin of a mango is so smooth, smoother than the devil

    Cut it, slice it, chop it up to the rhythm of a Cockney rebel



    Back in Blighty there's a flat on a grimy sink estate

    That's why he walked out of that and went to the Golden State

    Left the baccy and the beer where he was born and bred

    Now he's cutting it out here with the quick and the dead



    Good on you son, good on you

    The Camden shuffle and the old one-two

    Good on you son, good on you a-ha, oh yeah

    What would you have had him do

    The Camden shuffle and the old one-two yeah



    Good on you son, good on you

    The Camden shuffle and the old one-two

    Good on you son, good on you a-ha, oh yeah

    Good on you son, good on you

    The Camden shuffle and the old one-two yeah

  7. My Bacon RollVer letra 5:36

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    letra de My Bacon Roll

    I never got the elbow

    Just telling you

    Before you go

    Only telling you

    Just so you know



    I never got the elbow

    I slung it in

    Had it up to here

    I just pulled the pin

    Went and had a beer



    I used to love a bit of folding

    Just for getting by

    A wad of cash

    Now that's out of date

    And so am I

    As pie and mash



    S'cuse me, s'cuse me

    Have you got my roll?

    My roll? My bacon roll?



    The time they took us bowling

    What was that about?

    I thought what a joke

    I just went out

    And had a smoke



    Then the white water rafting

    Just some know-it-all

    With the new regime

    There to show us all

    How to build a team



    He says what do you think we're doing?

    I said don't ask me

    I've no idea

    They all laughed at that

    That was pretty funny actually



    S'cuse me, s'cuse me

    Have you got my roll?

    My roll? My bacon roll?

    Have you got my roll?

    My roll? My bacon roll?



    I could order you a toastie

    Just like that one there

    Or the same in plain white bread

    When you're dealing with a toastie

    What do you prefer

    Brown or red?



    I never got the elbow

    Just telling you

    Before you go

    Only telling you

    Just so you know

  8. Nobody Does ThatVer letra 5:15

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    letra de Nobody Does That

    I like the way you put yourself together

    Nobody does that quite the way you do

    I like the way you put yourself together

    Nobody does that quite like you



    Nobody does that

    Nobody does that

    Nobody does that



    I like the way you're holding my attention

    Nobody does that quite the way you do

    That stuff too hot for me to mention

    Nobody does that quite like you



    Nobody does that

    Nobody does that



    I like the way you work the opposition

    Nobody does that quite the way you do

    When you want to smoke the competition

    Nobody does that quite like you



    Nobody does that

    Nobody does that

    Nobody does that



    I like the way you put yourself together

    Nobody does that quite the way you do

    I like the way you put yourself together

    Nobody does that quite like you



    Nobody does that

    Nobody does that

    Nobody does that

  9. Drovers' Road 5:05
  10. One Song At A TimeVer letra 6:17

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    My whistle under the archways

    Still echoes down the street

    All the way back to Deptford days

    Nights down by The Creek

    Notes as big as river boats

    Still echoing through the clubs

    With the horns of the trains

    Down the old back lanes

    And the lights of the corner pubs



    In a taproom lined with mirrors

    There's a man there at the bar

    Reminds you of somebody

    He says I know who you are

    He's right, I know I could be him

    But anyway who is who?

    You could be looking at

    What he's looking at

    And he's looking at you



    And I'll be out of this place

    And down the road wherever

    There but for the grace, etcetera

    I'll see you later but it's 1979

    And I'm picking my way out of here

    One song at a time



    The slaving ports of plunder

    Used to stink to heaven on high

    Companions of honour

    Always were in short supply

    The Bristol ships and Liverpool's

    On every tide they came

    The times they may have changed, my friend

    Some people stay the same



    And I'll be out of this place

    And down the road wherever

    There but for the grace, etcetera

    I'll see you later but it's 1879

    And I'm picking my way out of here

    One song at a time



    A grinning mogul greets the crowd

    At Execution Dock

    All come to see three mutineers

    Turned off at twelve o'clock

    The shyster takes a ringside seat

    As they're bringing them from the jail

    And twenty thousand tickets

    Sold online on premium sale



    So if you need to reach me

    You can leave word at The Pig

    I have no wish to stay around

    To watch that Newgate jig

    Or any more poor old fakers

    Trying to dance in my old shoes

    I'll be gone over the ocean

    With the transatlantic blues



    And I'll be out of this place

    And down the road wherever

    There but for the grace, etcetera

    I'll see you later somewhere down the line

    I'll be picking my way out of here

    One song at a time

  11. Floating AwayVer letra 5:03

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    letra de Floating Away

    It's the weight I'm trying

    To get inside the frame

    I've been painting a fat man

    He's big and fat and heavy

    As a man can be

    But he's been floating away, floating away

    He's been floating away from me



    In the mirror my withering skin

    Is a thorny pleasure

    I stand unflinching

    And I mark each crease and sting

    My brush my wooden flail

    My ancient thresher

    As unforgiving time flays everything



    It's the truth I'm trying

    To get inside the frame

    Now I'm painting myself naked

    But I need a pair of boots

    About as heavy as boots can be

    Or I'd be floating away, floating away

    I'd be floating away from me



    And every thorn sends thistledown

    Drifting all around

    And floating away, floating away

    Floating away from me

  12. Slow LearnerVer letra 4:34

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    letra de Slow Learner

    People say 'Where have you been?'

    Or 'Where did you go?'

    I'm a slow learner

    I do everything slow

    It's my way, has to be true

    The world goes by me fast

    But where you're concerned

    I like good things to last

    Where's the point in worrying

    If we should start a little late

    Where's the point in hurrying

    When waiting feels so great?

    I'm a slow burner

    My last train left a while ago

    I'm a slow learner

    I do everything slow



    So where's the point in worrying

    If we should start a little late

    And where's the point in hurrying

    When waiting feels so great?

    I'm a slow burner

    My last train left a while ago

    I'm a slow learner

    I do everything slow



    Yeah, I'm a slow burner

    My last train left a while ago

    I'm a slow learner

    I do everything slow

  13. Heavy UpVer letra 6:00

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    letra de Heavy Up

    Your slack-jawed dimness is our loss

    Condemns us to your point of view

    Who could give a flying toss

    What you like to chill out to?

    And why should I lighten up for you

    If you can't heavy up for me?

    Why should I? Why should I?



    You grunt and root your patch of earth

    Adrift from shame and deaf to sound

    How much is your praise really worth?

    About the same as your thumbs down

    And why should I lighten up for you

    If you can't heavy up for me?

    Why should I? Why should I?



    So heavy up, heavy up for me

    Heavy up, heavy up for me

    You can give it up

    Give it up with me

    Or heavy up, heavy up for me



    What would it take

    To get you to shut it?

    I'd so love it



    And why should I lighten up for you

    If you can't heavy up for me?

    Why should I? Why should I?



    So heavy up, heavy up for me

    Heavy up, heavy up for me

    You can give it up

    Give it up with me

    Or heavy up, heavy up for me



    You won't of course, you will be heard

    Ah, but at least a man can dream

    I'm afraid, alas, the turd

    Who thinks he's an ice cream

    And why should I lighten up for you

    If you can't heavy up for me?

    Why should I? Why should I?



    So heavy up, heavy up for me

    Heavy up, heavy up for me

    You can give it up

    Give it up with me

    Or heavy up, heavy up for me



    Yeah, heavy up, heavy up for me

    Heavy up, heavy up for me

    You can give it up

    Give it up with me

    Or heavy up, heavy up for me

  14. Every Heart In The Room 4:31
  15. Rear View Mirror 2:29
  16. Matchstick ManVer letra 2:54

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    letra de Matchstick Man

    So there he was then, Penzance to play

    Christmas Eve in a nowhere band

    Now early morning Christmas Day

    He’s hitching home to Geordieland



    Last night the snow came, just my luck

    And who the hell do you think you are

    Climbing up into that truck

    With your old bag and your guitar



    And you, you would-be vagabond

    No-one invited you, you know

    Matchstick man, up in the dawn

    You’ve got five hundred miles to go



    The driver now must drop off his load

    The snow still laying thick on the ground

    Leaves him on a high crossroads

    Where he can see for miles around



    The sun is shining, sky is blue

    And everything is white and bare

    Not a car comes into view

    There’s nothing moving anywhere



    And you, you would-be vagabond

    No-one invited you, you know

    Matchstick man, you speck upon

    These vast and silent plains of snow

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