Escrita por Mark Knopfler, foi gravada entre 28 de novembro e 12 de dezembro de 1978, no Compass Point, em Nassau e lançada em 5 de junho de 1979 no disco Communiqué, o segundo disco da banda. Foi produzida por Barry Beckett e Jerry Wexler. Mark Knopfler cantou, tocou guitarra solo e base. David Knopfler tocou guitarra base e fez backing vocals. John Illsley tocou baixo e fez backing vocals. Pick Withers tocou bateria. Barry Beckett tocou teclado.
A letra:
Two
in the morning, dry-dock town
The river roll away in the
night
Little gypsy moth, she's all tied down
She quiver in the
wind and the light
Yeah, and the sailing ship just held
down in chains
From the lazy days of sail
She's just a lying
there, silent in pain
He lean on the tourist rail
A mother and her baby and the college
of war
In the concrete graves
You never wanna fight against the
river law
Nobody rules the waves
Yeah, and on a night when the lazy wind
is a-wailing
Around the Cutty Sark
The single-handed sailor
goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
He's up on the bridge on the self-same
night
The mariner of dry dock land
Two in the morning but
there's one green light
And a man on a barge of sand
She's a gonna slip away below him
Away
from things he's done
But he just shouts, "Hey man, what you
call this thing?"
He could have said "Pride of London"
On a night when the lazy wind is
a-wailing
Around the Cutty Sark
Yeah, the single-handed sailor
goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
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