Song Description
Runner-up in the 2006 World Unisong Competition. A song parading the sailing of the Pilgrim Fathers to Philadelphia.
| Song Length |
4:26 |
Genre |
Folk - Religious |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Duet Male/Female |
| Subject |
Unrequited Love |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1800 - 1899 |
| |
Lyrics
Verse: 1
I used to know a girl from Philadelphia
We fell in love one summer and she spoke of nothing else
Every other word was, Philadelphia
And I knew there and then. . .one day I?d have to go myself
Verse 2:
It seems there is a bell, in Philadelphia
The Pilgrims called it, Liberty, it?s made of gold and gleams
It chimes for all who sail, to Philadelphia?.
And I could hear it ringing and it filled my head with dreams
Bridge:
And when she went back home, she promised she would write
She said we?d meet again one day
I never heard no more but somewhere in the night;
My heart cries out to sail away??..
Verse 3
Tonight I?m gonna go, to Philadelphia
I?ve gotta find the girl I love and I will somehow
I don?t have time to stop and talk about it now
Coz I?ve got to catch a shooting star;
I?ve gotta go, to Philadelphia
I?ve gotta go, to Philadelphia