Mark Knopfler – Yon Two Crows

Mark Knopfler – Yon Two Crows Lyrics

Artist: Mark Knopfler
Song: Yon Two Crows

Pennies from heaven
Don’t make me laugh
Here all you’ll get
Is the pattering rain

Or yon two crows up over the hill
Looking for winterkill
Always at your boots
The mud behind the byre

With its clammy hold
Would mock you up a grave
Here in the mire of a wrecked sheepfold
And all you’ll bring to this

Is muscle and grit
Persistence, that’s just about it
What made you think
There’d be a living in sheep?

Eat, work, eat, work and sleep
Duck under the eaves
Of the bothy
To sit here, caged by rain

Somewhere to go conjure
A next move
When I have to think again
The dog lifts his gaze to plead

Believes the wizard has a magic stick
Leans his weight into my tweed
I give an unholy hand to lick
I take a swig of sheep dip

From my flask
And once again I ask
What made you think
There’d be a living in sheep?

Eat, work, eat, work and sleep
They were at this game
Two hundred years ago
Had thirty ways

Of dying young, poor souls
Laid to rest in their soggy rows
Rain on their holy books
Blood and whisky

On the tongue
And no-one watching over anyone
No-one left but your stubborn one
And the crows and rooks

Ah, the dying young
Well I’m not done
You watch me and I’ll watch thee
I can still work for two men

And drink for three
And I raise my flask
To the clearing skies
To you, sweepers

You carrion spies
To scavenge and survive
If you can do it so can I
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From the album:
Privateering (Deluxe Version)
Release Year: 2013