Listen to Nobody’s Child by Mark Knopfler

Nobody’s Child

Mark Knopfler

Rock

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Music Video

Mark Knopfler - Nobody’s Child (The Studio Albums 2009 – 2018)

Watch Mark Knopfler - Nobody’s Child (The Studio Albums 2009 – 2018) on YouTube

Featured In

Listen to Down The Road Wherever by Mark Knopfler

ALBUMDown The Road WhereverMark Knopfler

Listen to Mark Knopfler Essentials featuring Mark Knopfler

PLAYLISTMark Knopfler EssentialsApple Music Classic Rock

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Mark Knopfler

Guitar

Guy Fletcher

Synthesizer

Jim Cox

Organ

Glenn Worf

Bass Guitar

Ian Thomas

Drums

Danny Cummings

Percussion

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Mark Knopfler

Composer

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Mark Knopfler

Producer

Guy Fletcher

Producer

Martin Hollis

Assistant Engineer

Rowan McIntosh

Assistant Mixing Engineer

Andy Cook

Assistant Mixing Engineer

Jason Elliot

Assistant Recording Engineer

Poppy Kavanagh

Assistant Recording Engineer

Josh Tyrrell

Assistant Engineer

Bob Ludwig

Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

The ragged kid nobody wanted

Left alone to ramble wild

Long ago, he was abandoned

Nobody's child

[Verse 2]

Never smiles and never chatters

Never quarrels or complains

Grown as hard as the Sierras

And the Western Plains

[Verse 3]

Come a-cow, cow, yicky-yicky, yeah

A-come a-cow, cow, yicky-yicky, yeah

[Verse 4]

Learned to swing a broken bottle

Learned to use his fists and knife

In the bar rooms and bordellos

Of his life

[Verse 5]

He drifted down towards the border

The sky was dark but it did not rain

Came the meanest pistoleros

In the Western Plains

[Verse 6]

He fell in with these desperados

Thieves and killers, every one

Prizes hangin' from their saddles

With their guns

[Verse 7]

Come a-cow, cow, yicky-yicky, yeah

A-come a-cow, cow, yicky-yicky, yeah

[Verse 8]

The ragged kid nobody wanted

Left alone to ramble wild

Now he rides beside the Devil

Nobody's child

[Verse 9]

Come a-cow, cow, yicky-yicky, yeah

A-come a-cow, cow, yicky-yicky, yeah

Written by: Mark Knopfler

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