Silvertown Blues Lyrics - Sailing To Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler

On Silvertown Blues the cranes stand high 

Quiet and gray against the still of the sky 

They won't quit and lay down though the action has died 

They watch the new game in town on the Blackwall side 

From the poisonous drains a vision appears 

A new circle of cranes, a new reason to be here 

A big silver dome rising up into the dawn 

Above the church and the homes where all the silver is gone 

If I'd a bucket of gold, what would I do 

I'd leave the story untold Silvertown Blues 

Going down in Silvertown 

Down in Silvertown 

Going down in Silvertown 

Down in Silvertown 

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A silver dawn steals over the docks 

A truck with no wheels up on the cinderblocks 

Men with no dreams around a fire in a drum 

Scrap metal schemes rusted over and done 

If I'd a bucket of gold, what would I do 

I'd leave the story untold Silvertown Blues 

And I'm going down in 

Down in Silvertown 

Going down in Silvertown 

Down in Silvertown 

When you're standing on thin and dangerous ice 

You can knock and walk in for citizens' advice 

They'll tell you where you can turn, where you can go 

There's nothing they can tell me I don't already know 

If I'd a bucket of gold, what would I do 

I'd leave the story untold Silvertown Blues 

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And I'm going down in 

Down in Silvertown 

Going down in Silvertown 

Down in Silvertown 

From the Caning Town train I see a billboard high 

There's a big silver plane rising up into the sky 

And I can make out the words 'seven flights every day' 

Says six of those birds are bound for J. F. K 

If I'd a bucket of gold, what would I do 

I'd leave the story untold Silvertown Blues 

And I'm going down in 

Down in Silvertown 

Going down in Silvertown 

Down in Silvertown