So Far From the Clyde Lyrics

Lyric discussion by charliehamu 

Cover art for So Far From the Clyde lyrics by Mark Knopfler

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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