Single Handed Sailor - Dire Straits
Key: Dm
[Written by Mark Knopfler
Published by Rondor Music/Straitjacket Songs
Copyright 1979 Phonogram, London]
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10^12 : slide from 10th to 12th fret
10^(12) : bending (one tone) on 10th fret
(12)^10 : descending bend note on 10th fret
10vv : vibrato note
10>12 : hammer on
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Dm
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C
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G
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(repeating ...)
Dm
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Dm
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C
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G |--> a fill (this appears in 2 types: 2nd)
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----10>12------10--------------------------10>13The river rolled away in the night
Dm C Bb F
>Little _Gypsy Moth_ she`s all tied down
Dm C Bb - F
>She put her in the wind and the light
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Verse 2
>Yeah, the sailing ship is just a-held down in chains
>From the lazy days of sail
>She`s just lying there, silent pain
>You lean on the tourist rail
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Chorus 1
Am Dm Dm-C-Bb
>A mother and her baby and the College of war
C
>And the concrete grave
Dm C Bb F
>You never want to fight against the river law
Gm Bb
>Nobody rules the waves
> C A7 Dm
>Yeah, on a night when the lazy wind is wailing
Bb C
>Around the _Cutty Sark_
Dm C Bb F
>Single-handed sailor go sailing
Gm Bb
>Sailing away in the dark
Guitar intro solo: Dm / C : G ( twice over)
Verse 3
>He`s up on the bridge on the self-same night
>A mariner of dry-dock land
>Two in the morning, well there`s one green light
>And the man on the barge is sayin`
>
Chorus 2
>`She`s a-gonna slip away below him
>Away from things he`s done`
>But he just shouts, `Hey man whatcha call this thing?`
>Could say, `Pride of London`
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>On a night when the lazy wind is wailing
>Around the _Cutty Sark_
>Yeah, single-handed sailor go sailing
>Sailing away in the dark
>
Final solo:
Repeat intro solo and then:
Dm Dm
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|B--151515^18vv---|--151515^18vv--|-
|G------------------------------------|-
|D------------------------------------|-
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C G
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