Im a maker of ballads right prettyI write them right here in the streetYou can buy them all over the cityyours for a penny a sheetIm a word pecker out of the printersout of the dens of Gin LaneIll write up a scene on a counter- confessions and sins in the main, boysconfessions and sins in the mainThen youll find me in Madame Genevaskeeping the demons at bayTheres nothing like gin for drowning them inbut theyll always be back on a hanging day, on a hanging dayThey come rattling over the cobblesthey sit on their coffins of blackSome are struck dumb, some gabbletop-heavy on brandy or sackThe pews are all full of fine fellowsand the hawker has set up her shopAs theyre turning them off at the gallowsshell be selling right under the drop, boysselling right under the dropThen youll find me in Madame Genevaskeeping the demons at bayTheres nothing like gin for drowning them inbut theyll always be back on a hanging day, on a hanging day
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Mark Knopfler was a contemporary Scottish musician. Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE is a British musician. He was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits from 1977 to 1995, and he is one of the two members who stayed throughout the band's existence, along with the bassist John Illsley. Read more on Wikipedia →