Mark Knopfler, My Claim to Fame

Mark Knopfler, My Claim to Fame, Lyrics: Well, he’s a big star now, But I’ve been a fan of his for years. The way he sings and plays the 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 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 breaker yard In a hundred years; you’re gonna hear him play, They won’t remember me for working hard Now, they’ve all gone away, all the boys and the girls The yard is a grave where the river runs through; We used to build 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