Mark Knopfler – Ragpickers Dream (Ukulele)

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When Jack Frost came for Christmas

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With a brass monkey date

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The rail-king and the scarecrow

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Hopped a Florida freight

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And they blew on their paper cups

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And stared through the steam

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Then they drank half a bottle

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Of Ragpicker's Dream where

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The whiskey keeps following

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Cold pitchers of beer

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Me and my associate

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Like the clientele here get

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The onions and the 'taters

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Rib-eyes on the grill

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Toothpicks and luckies

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And a coffee refill

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As the rail-king lay rocking

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He was leaving the ground

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Then he was flying like Santa Claus

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Over the town where

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He came to the window

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Of a house by a stream

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It was a family Christmas

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In the Ragpicker's Dream there

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Were kids at the table

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All aglow in the light

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Music in the wintertime

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Sure carries at night there

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Was turkey and gravy

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Pie and ice cream

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And gifts for each and everyone

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In the Ragpicker's Dream where

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The red-eye keeps tumbling

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In our glasses of beer

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Me and my associate

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Like the service in here there's

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A ten for your trouble

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You have beautiful hair

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Make the last one two doubles

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It's a cold one out there where

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The scarecrow and the rail-king

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Have started to dance

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But a nightstick and a billyclub 

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Won't give peace a chance here

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I think they went thataways

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Heading home for the holidays

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With the Ragpicker's Dream on

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His knees like a fighter

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The rail-riding king

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Like a sack of potatoes

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Like a bull in the ring where

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The scarecrow falls over

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With a tear in the seam

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Home for the rover

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In the Ragpicker's Dream where

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The red-eye keeps tumbling

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Like tears in our beer

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Me and my associate

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Like the ambience here where

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They cornered two castaways

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In a white flashlight beam

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Merry Christmas and happy days

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In the Ragpicker's Dream