Intro:

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|-----|0-----------------|-2------------|-----------2--|---------------|------|
|----2|------4>6>4-2---4-|----2---------|--------2-----|-4-------4->-1-|------|
|---4-|------------------|--------4>2-4-|-----4--------|---------------|------|
|--4--|------------------|--------------|--------------|---------------|------|
|-2---|------------------|--------------|--------------|---------------|------|
        
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Verse 1:

F#m11            (Fig1)
Jeremiah Dixon I am a Geordie boy A glass of wine with you, sir And the

Aadd9         D(Fig2)     E               A    D  Dadd9    E              A
ladies I'll enjoy     All Durham and Northumberland     Is measured up by my own

D     Dmaj7    E             A         D       Dadd9    Dmaj7
hand               It was my fate from birth         To make my mark upon the

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earth.



Verse 2:

He calls me Charlie Mason
A stargazer am I
It seems that I was born
To chart the evening sky
They'd cut me out for baking bread
But I had other dreams instead
This baker's boy from the west country
Would join the Royal Society...



Chorus:
       A       E          F#m(Fig3)   D    A
We are sailing    to Philadelphia

         C#m          Bm        E
A world away from the coaly Tyne

C#m             F#m       D     F#m
Sailing to Philadelphia 

                 E  (Fig4)
To draw the line

  D    E      A
A Mason-Dixon Line



Verse 3:

Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon
But I swear you'll make me mad
The West will kill us both
You gullible Geordie lad
You talk of liberty
How can America be free
A Geordie and a baker's boy
In the forests of the Iroquois...



Verse 4:

Now hold your head up, Mason
See America lies there
The morning tide has raised
The capes of Delaware
Come up and feel the sun
A new morning has begun
Another day will make it clear
Why your stars should guide us here...



Chorus:

We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia 
To draw the line
A Mason-Dixon Line




Fig1: 
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|-----------------|-4-----------------|
|-----------------|-------------------|
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Fig2: 
 D       Dmaj7      E        A                                   
|-----------------|-------------------|
|-----------------|-5-----------------|
|--------6--------|-------------------|
|----------7------|-------------------|
|--------------7--|-------------------|
|-----------------|-------------------|


Fig3:   
 F#m      D        A         C#m       Bm     E            C#m                                        
|-----------------|-------------------|----5------------|-------------------|
|---------5-3-2>3>|2------------------|----5--5--5------|-------------------|
|-------------2---|-------------------|----4--2--4----4-|-------------------|
|---------6-4-----|-------------------|-----------------|--(6)--------------|
|-----------------|-------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
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Fig4: 
 E                                       D      E          A                                          
|-----------------0-------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
|-----------------0-------------------|--3------5-------|-------------------|
|-----------------2->-1---------------|-----------------|--6----------------|
|--------------------------4-----2----|--4------6-------|--7----------------|
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