Lyrics The Ragpicker’s Dream.lrc Mark Knopfler
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[ar: Mark Knopfler]
[al: The Ragpicker’s Dream]
[ti: The Ragpicker’s Dream]
[length: 04:21]
[00:13.60]When jack frost came for christmas
[00:16.48]With a brass monkey date
[00:20.25]The rail-king and the scarecrow
[00:22.72]Hopped a florlda freight
[00:25.90]And they blew on their paper cups
[00:29.45]And stared through the steam
[00:31.81]Then they drank half a bottle
[00:34.87]Of ragpicker’s dream where
[00:38.42]The whiskey keeps following
[00:40.97]Cold pitchers of beer
[00:44.08]Me and my associate
[00:46.99]Like the clientele here get
[00:50.77]The onions and the ‘taters
[00:53.80]Rib-eyes on the grill
[00:56.33]Toothpicks and luckies
[00:59.01]And a coffee refill as
[01:03.47]
[01:13.61]The rail-king lay rocking
[01:16.88]He was leaving the ground
[01:20.00]Then he was flying like santa claus
[01:22.95]Over the town where
[01:26.15]He came to the window
[01:28.85]Of a house by a stream
[01:31.55]It was a family christmas
[01:34.78]In the ragpicker’s dream there
[01:39.62]Were kids at the table
[01:42.32]All aglow in the light
[01:45.93]Music in the wintertime
[01:48.68]Sure carries at night there
[01:52.23]Was turkey and gravy
[01:55.10]Pie and ice-cream
[01:58.62]And gifts for each and everyone
[02:02.03]In the ragpicker’s dream where
[02:05.28]The red-eye keeps tumbling
[02:07.97]In our glasses of beer
[02:10.85]Me and my associate
[02:13.79]Like the service in here there’s
[02:17.23]A ten for your trouble
[02:19.97]You have beautiful hair
[02:22.96]Make the last one two doubles
[02:25.85]It’s a cold one out there where
[02:30.63]The scarecrow and the rail-king
[02:33.45]Have started to dance
[02:36.34]But a nightstick and a billyclub
[02:39.50]Won’t give peace a chance here
[02:42.56]I think they went thataways
[02:45.67]Your song and dance team
[02:48.81]Heading home for the holidays
[02:52.98]With the ragpicker’s dream on
[02:57.45]His knees like a fighter
[03:00.21]The rail-riding king
[03:03.43]Like a sack of potatoes
[03:06.21]Like a bull in the ring where
[03:09.67]The scarecrow falls over
[03:12.19]With a tear in the seam
[03:17.29]Home for the rover
[03:22.99]In the ragpicker’s dream where
[03:26.22]The red-eye keeps tumbling
[03:28.83]Like tears in our beer
[03:31.88]Me and my associate
[03:34.65]Like the ambience here where
[03:37.84]They cornered two castaways
[03:40.90]In a white flashlight beam
[03:46.19]Merry christmas and happy days
[03:51.72]In the ragpicker’s dream
[03:53.07]Year of Release: 2002