Mark Knopfler - Yon two crows
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Yon Two Crows
Track by Mark Knopfler taken from his album Privateering. Bass
Performance Glenn Worf. Tab by bass50611. As per original I think
One has to listen to the tempo and as always good album track from
Mark Knopfler. Doesn’t fit the live version.
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Verse 1:
Pennies from heaven, don’t make me laugh...Here all you’ll get is the
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Pattering rain...Or yon two crows up over the hill looking for winterkill
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Always at your boots, the mud behind the byre...with its clammy hold
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Would mock you up a grave...Here in the mire of wrecked sheepfold.
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Chorus:
And all you’ll bring to this is muscle and grit...Persistence that’s just
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About it...What made you think there’d be a living in sheep
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Eat work eat work and sleep.
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Verse 2:
Duck under the eaves of the bothy... to sit here, caged in rain
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Somewhere to go conjure a next move when I have to think again.
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The dog lifts his gaze to plead...believes the wizard has a magic stick
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Leans his weight into my tweed I give an unholy hand to lick
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Chorus:
I take a swig of sheep dip from my flask......And once again I ask...What
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Made you think there’d be living in sheep...Eat Work Eat Work and sleep
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Interlude:
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Verse 3:
They were at this game two hundred years ago...Had thirty ways of dying
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Young poor souls...Laid to rest in their soggy rows
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Rain on their holy books.....Blood and whisky on the tongue...And no one
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Watching over anyone...No one left but your stubborn one and the
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Crows and rocks
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Chorus:
Ah the dying young......well I’m not done...You watch me and I’ll watch
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Thee...I can still work for two men and drink for three...And I raise my
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Flask to the clearing skies...To you sweepers you carrion spies
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To scavenge and survive...If you can do it so can I
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Outro Interlude
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(End Bass Chord)
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