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- From URBAN JOSEP DESOUZA Jul 21 '94 at 11:27 pm -240
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- Return-Path: <ujd100@cac.psu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 23:27:44 -0400
- To: guitar@nevada.edu
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- DOWN TO THE WATERLINE
- BY
- DIRE STRAITS
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- Key Bm:
-
- G / Bm / G / Bm
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- Bm F#m A E7 Bm
- Sweet surrender on the quay side
- Bm F#m A E7 Bm
- You remember we used to run and hide
- Bm F#m
- In the shadows of cargoes, I take you on time,
- A (D)-E
- Counting all the numbers
- Bm
- Down to the waterline
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- Near misses on the dogleap stairways
- French kisses in the darkened doorways
- Foghorn blowing out wild and cold
- A policeman shines a light upon my shoulder
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- Lead 1 G / Bm / G / A / Bm
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- Up comes a coaster, fast and silent through the night
- Over my shoulder, all you can see are pilot lights
- No money in our jackets and jeans are torn
- Your hands are cold but your lips are warm
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- G / Bm / G / A -
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- solo: E / C#m / C
- G / C (?)
- D / A
- F# / G / A / Bm
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- she can see you in the jetty where you used to go
- she can see you in the places where the sailors go
- when she's walking down the river on the railway line
- she can still hear you whisper
- Lets go down to the water line
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- come on.
- G / Bm / G / A / Bm / G / A / Bm-#9-9 end||
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- contributed by
- Urban J. De Souza
- ujd@ecl.psu.edu
- improvements?
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