Though I've been to London, I wasn't fortunate to stay long enough to check out the riverboats of the Thames. I wonder if anyone who knows can confirm the location of the Riverboat "Pride of London"
( thamesriverboats.net/page4.htm ) and whether it might have any relation at all to this song.
Seems likely, it is mentioned in a different 'scene' (two in the morning on the self same night), so he may not be talking about the Gypsy Moth in this scene. Perhaps he's strolled down the Thames a bit and come upon the Pride of London.
This is one of my favorite songs, and Mark Knopfler one of my favorite artists forever. As Douglas Adams once ventured, he could charm the angels down from heaven with his guitar.
Interesting...Knopfler's voice sounds a bit sarcastic to me in the line "He could have said 'Pride of London'". I don't hink it refers to the real-life river boat that trickyelf mentioned, it sounds more like some kind of comment about futility. I'd agree "mother and child" is a metaphor for the big Cutty Sark and the small Gypsy Moth.
Interesting...Knopfler's voice sounds a bit sarcastic to me in the line "He could have said 'Pride of London'". I don't hink it refers to the real-life river boat that trickyelf mentioned, it sounds more like some kind of comment about futility. I'd agree "mother and child" is a metaphor for the big Cutty Sark and the small Gypsy Moth.
Still thinking the man in the second verse has nothing to do with Chichester, and still enthralled by Knopfler's guitar playing.
Still thinking the man in the second verse has nothing to do with Chichester, and still enthralled by Knopfler's guitar playing.
Though I've been to London, I wasn't fortunate to stay long enough to check out the riverboats of the Thames. I wonder if anyone who knows can confirm the location of the Riverboat "Pride of London" ( thamesriverboats.net/page4.htm ) and whether it might have any relation at all to this song.
Seems likely, it is mentioned in a different 'scene' (two in the morning on the self same night), so he may not be talking about the Gypsy Moth in this scene. Perhaps he's strolled down the Thames a bit and come upon the Pride of London.
This is one of my favorite songs, and Mark Knopfler one of my favorite artists forever. As Douglas Adams once ventured, he could charm the angels down from heaven with his guitar.
-=Trickyelf>
Interesting...Knopfler's voice sounds a bit sarcastic to me in the line "He could have said 'Pride of London'". I don't hink it refers to the real-life river boat that trickyelf mentioned, it sounds more like some kind of comment about futility. I'd agree "mother and child" is a metaphor for the big Cutty Sark and the small Gypsy Moth.
Interesting...Knopfler's voice sounds a bit sarcastic to me in the line "He could have said 'Pride of London'". I don't hink it refers to the real-life river boat that trickyelf mentioned, it sounds more like some kind of comment about futility. I'd agree "mother and child" is a metaphor for the big Cutty Sark and the small Gypsy Moth.
Still thinking the man in the second verse has nothing to do with Chichester, and still enthralled by Knopfler's guitar playing.
Still thinking the man in the second verse has nothing to do with Chichester, and still enthralled by Knopfler's guitar playing.