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 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 breakers 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 They yard is a grave where the river runs through We used to build the 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