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Mark Knopfler – So Far From the Clyde Lyrics 11 years ago
Some of the phrasing, especially in the first stanza, seems to be derived from this 60 Minutes segment, released three years earlier:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-ship-breakers-of-bangladesh/

The pots cooling, the "dead ship sailing", "skeleton crew", the captain moves over, the wind and the tide.

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