My Claim To Fame Lyrics - Mark Knopfler

Well he's a big star now 

But I've been a fan of his for years 

The way he sings and plays guitar 

Still brings me to tears 

I wouldn't want to be a big deal 

I wouldn't want to be a celebrity 

I spend my life building ships of steel 

That's all there ever was for me 

Take a hammer to the sea belles 

And shout my name 

And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze 

That's my claim to fame 

He spends his life in the studio 

Jet planes and big black cars 

Plays records on the radio 

In all of the clubs and in all of the bars 

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By day he didn't have a choice 

You had to take a trade 

You had no money and you had no voice 

That's the life I made 

Take a hammer to the sea belles 

And shout my name 

And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze 

That's my claim to fame 

That's my claim to fame boys 

That's my claim to fame 

To sail the seas as free as a breeze 

That's my claim to fame 

Well a song can live forever and a day 

An old ship goes to the breakers yard 

In a hundred years you're gonna hear him play 

They won't remember me for working hard 

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Now they've all gone away, all the boys and the girls 

They yard is a grave where the river runs through 

We used to build the ships for the whole wide world 

Now we couldn't do it if we wanted to 

Take a hammer to the sea belles 

And shout my name 

I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze 

That's my claim to fame 

Take a hammer to the sea belles 

And shout my name 

I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze 

That's my claim to fame 

That's my claim to fame boys 

That's my claim to fame 

To sail the seas as free as a breeze 

That's my claim to fame