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Artist/Band: Mark Knopfler
Lyrics for Song: Corned Beef City
Lyrics for Album: Privateering [2012]



Early in the morning

Going to meet a man

Wants a truck unloading

For cash-in-hand

You don't ask questions

When there's nothing in the bank

Got to feed the kids

And put the diesel in the tank



Bacon, egg and sausage

Double chips and beans

Tea and bread and butter

And a day on the machines

Christmas is coming

With the final demand

What you got going

For cash in hand



So it ain't too pretty

Corned Beef City

It ain't too pretty

Corned Beef City



Early in the morning

Where the trucks all stand

I've got a pocket full of folding

And a pair of jerry cans

I've got to keep it going

They're laying off at Ford

I'm only one step ahead

Of my room and board



So it ain't too pretty

Corned Beef City

It ain't too pretty

Corned Beef City



Early in the morning

Going to meet a man

Wants a truck unloading

For cash-in-hand

You don't ask questions

When there's nothing in the bank

Got to feed the kids

And put the diesel in the tank



So it ain't too pretty

Corned Beef City

It ain't too pretty

Corned Beef City


Album Lyrics: Privateering [2012]


Mark Knopfler
"Privateering [2012]"


2. Blood And Water
3. Bluebird
4. Corned Beef City
5. Don't Forget Your Hat
6. Dream Of The Drowned Submariner
7. Gator Blood
8. Go, Love
9. Got To Have Something
10. Haul Away
11. Hot Or What
12. I Used To Could
13. Kingdom Of Gold
14. Miss You Blues
15. Privateering
16. Radio City Serenade
17. Redbud Tree
18. Seattle
19. Today Is Okay
20. Yon Two Crows