Lyrics My Claim to Fame - Chet Atkins , Mark Knopfler

Well he's a big star now
But I've been a fan of his for years
The way he sings and plays guitar
Can still bring me to tears
I wouldn't want to be a big deal
Wouldn't want to be a celebrity
I spent my life building ships of steel
That's all there ever was for me

I'd take a hammer to the sea valves
Punch out my name
And they sail the seas free as the breeze
That's my claim to fame

He spends his life in the studio
Jet planes and big black cars
They play his records on the radio
In all of the clubs and in all of the bars
In my day you didn't have a choice
You had to take a trade
You had no money and you had no voice
That's the life I made

I'd take a hammer to the sea valves
Punch out my name
And they sail the seas free as the breeze
That's my claim to fame
That's my claim to fame, boys
That's my claim to fame
They sail the seas free as the breeze
And that's my claim to fame

Well a song can live forever and a day
An old ship goes to the breaker's yard
In a hundred years they're gonna hear him play
They won't remember me for working hard

Now they've all gone away, all the boys and the girls
The yard is a grave where the river runs through
We used to build the ships for the whole wide world
Now we couldn't do it if we wanted to

I'd take a hammer to the sea valves
Punch out my name
And they sail the seas free as the breeze
That's my claim to fame
I'd take a hammer to the sea valves
Punch out my name
And they sail the seas free as the breeze
That's my claim to fame

That's my claim to fame, boys
That's my claim to fame
They sail the seas free as the breeze
That's my claim to fame