Here, Mark Knopfler celebrates an unrefined character from London who makes it in America but misses the English food and beer. Back in Blighty there's a flat on a grimy sink estate That's why he walked out of that and went to the Golden State Left the baccy and the beer where he was born and bred Now he's cutting it out here with the quick and the dead Uncut asked Knopfler if he's singing about himself. He replied: "We all come from somewhere. The thing with rockers and film kids is that the critics would much rather they remain stuck where they started. There' a snobbery."
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