1979
4:42
Official Music Video
Single Handed Sailor by Dire Straits
Lyrics & Translation
English
Two in the morning, dry-dock town
The rivers rolls away in the night
Little Gipsy Moth she's all tied down
She quiver in the wind and the light
Yeah, and a sailing ship just held down in chains
From the lazy days of sail
She's just lying there in silent pain
He lean on the tourist rail
A mother and her baby and the college of war
In the concrete graves
You never wanna fight against the river law
Nobody rules the waves
Yeah and on a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
Around the Cutty Sark
Single-handed sailor goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
He's upon the bridge on the self same night
The mariner of dry dock land
Two in the morning, but there is one green light
And a man on the barge of sand
She's gonna slip away below him
Away from the things he's done
But he just shouts "Hey man, what do you call this thing?"
He could have said "Pride of London"
On a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
Around the Cutty Sark
Yeah the single-handed sailor goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
Spanish translations are provided by the LyricVerse team.
Spanish translation of Single Handed Sailor by Dire Straits
Single Handed Sailor* (original Dire Straits)
Two in the morning, dry-dock town
The rivers rolls away in the night
Little Gipsy Moth she's all tied down
She quiver in the wind and the light
Yeah, and a sailing ship just held down in chains
From the lazy days of sail
She's just lying there in silent pain
He lean on the tourist rail
A mother and her baby and the college of war
In the concrete graves
You never wanna fight against the river law
Nobody rules the waves
Yeah and on a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
Around the Cutty Sark
Single-handed sailor goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
He's upon the bridge on the self same night
The mariner of dry dock land
Two in the morning, but there is one green light
And a man on the barge of sand
She's gonna slip away below him
Away from the things he's done
But he just shouts "Hey man, what do you call this thing?"
He could have said "Pride of London"
On a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
Around the Cutty Sark
Yeah the single-handed sailor goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
Single Handed Sailor (traducción LyricVerse Team)
Dos de la mañana, ciudad de dique seco
El río se aleja en la noche
La pequeña Gipsy Moth está toda amarrada
Tiembla con el viento y la luz
Sí, y un velero encadenado
De los días perezosos de la vela
Ella yace allí con dolor silencioso
Él se apoya en la barandilla turística
Una madre y su bebé y la universidad de la guerra
En las tumbas de hormigón
Nunca querrás luchar contra la ley del río
Nadie domina las olas
Sí, y en una noche cuando el viento perezoso gime
Alrededor del Cutty Sark
El marinero solitario se va navegando
Navegando en la oscuridad
Él está sobre el puente esa misma noche
El marinero de la tierra del dique seco
Dos de la mañana, pero hay una luz verde
Y un hombre en la barcaza de arena
Ella se va a escabullir debajo de él
Lejos de las cosas que ha hecho
Pero él solo grita "¿Oye, hombre, cómo llamas a esto?"
Podría haber dicho "Orgullo de Londres"
En una noche cuando el viento perezoso gime
Alrededor del Cutty Sark
Sí, el marinero solitario se va navegando
Navegando en la oscuridad
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