Mighty Man-Mark Knopfler

[00:00.29]Mighty Man (Live) - Mark Knopfler [00:03.10] [01:13.23]A room on the top floor [01:16.94] [01:19.22]And the chest all but knackered [01:22.62] [01:25.20]Two fingers not working [01:28.91] [01:30.98]And the back's shot to hell [01:33.29] [01:37.06]It's a lifetime of digging trenches [01:39.62] [01:43.01]In the cold and wet weather [01:46.47] [01:49.04]And for laying half the roadway [01:51.86]In england as well [01:58.15]You'd finish in the one place [02:01.30] [02:03.75]It was straight to the next one [02:06.10] [02:09.63]And you never could settle [02:13.34] [02:15.32]And you were always alone [02:17.33] [02:21.40]Just a drifter in limbo [02:23.76] [02:27.25]I was best off away son [02:30.70] [02:33.22]Just one of the thousands [02:36.01]Who could never go home [02:38.45] [02:42.01]That's your mighty man son [02:45.71] [02:47.88]Your mighty man [02:50.30] [02:53.83]Well the boat and the train ride [02:57.23] [02:59.59]In a misty november [03:03.11] [03:05.52]We had the worst of the lodgings [03:09.27] [03:11.23]And we hated the subs [03:13.26] [03:17.39]Ma's face on the leaving [03:19.69] [03:23.38]I will always remember [03:25.87] [03:29.29]And we wouldn't get paid [03:31.52]Until they had closed up their pubs [03:34.35] [04:23.73]And I could stand up on horseback [04:27.27] [04:29.62]Was the man for the singing [04:31.78] [04:35.74]Put my hand up for boxing [04:39.32] [04:41.58]At the fairground on the heath [04:44.40] [04:47.49]I could play my accordion [04:49.92] [04:54.07]And charm all of the women [04:55.42] [04:59.51]And dance round the taproom [05:02.27]With a chair in my teeth [05:04.71] [05:08.43]That's your mighty man son [05:12.12] [05:14.42]Your mighty man [05:16.24] [05:20.48]That's your mighty man son [05:24.14] [05:26.36]Your mighty man