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- #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#
- #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
- #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------##
- ~Subject: Single Handed Sailor
- ---------------------------------------------------
- Intro: Dm / C : G
-
-
- Dm C Bb F
- > Two in the morning bright uptown
- Dm C Bb - F
- > The river run away in the night
- Dm C Bb F
- > Little Gypsy mare she's all tied down
- Dm C Bb - F
- > She put her in the wind and the light
- >
-
- (Same chords as above)
-
- > Yeah, the sailing ship is just held down in chains
- > From the lazy days of sailing
- > She's just lying there silent in pain
- > You lean on the tourist rail
- >
- Am Dm Dm-C-Bb
- > A mother and her baby in the college of war
- C
- > In 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 cutting saw
- Dm C Bb F
- > Single-handed sailor go sailing
- Gm Bb
- > Singing away in the dark
- >
- > He's up on the bridge on the self-say night
- > A mariner of dried-up land
- > Two in the morning, well there's one green light
- > And the man on the barge is sad
- >
- > She's gonna step away below him
- > Away from things he's done
- > But he just shouts, "Hey man whatcha call this thing?"
- > She could say, "Pride of London"
- >
- > On a night when the lazy wind is wailing
- > Around the cutting saw
- > Yeah, single-handed sailor go sailing
- > Singing away in the dark
-
- For the intro: I tried to play the long note as a slide note. I have to say
- that it sounds much better.
-
- Tab notation followed:-----------------
- 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
- 12<10 : pull off
-
- ---------------10----------
- -----------10------13^15vv-
- ----10>12------------------
- ---------------------------
- ---------------------------
- ---------------------------
-
- ---------------10---------------
- -----------10------13^15.--15vv-
- ----10>12-----------------------
- --------------------------------
- --------------------------------
- --------------------------------
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- ---------------10----------
- -----------10------13vv----
- ----10>12------------------
- ---------------------------
- ---------------------------
- ---------------------------
-
- ---------------------------
- -----------10------13^(15)-
- ----10>12------10----------
- ---------------------------
- ---------------------------
- ---------------------------
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-
- ---------------10----------
- -----------10------13^15vv-
- ----10>12------------------
- ---------------------------
- ---------------------------
- ---------------------------
-
- ---------------10---------------
- -----------10------13^15.--15vv-
- ----10>12-----------------------
- --------------------------------
- --------------------------------
- --------------------------------
-
- ---------------10----------
- -----------10------13vv----
- ----10>12------------------
- ---------------------------
- ---------------------------
- ---------------------------
-
- ------------------------------15----------------------------------------
- -----------10------13^(15)--------(15)^13-------------------------------
- ----10>12------10--------------------------10>13<13---------------------
- -----------------------------------------------------12<10>12<10--------
- ------------------------------------------------------------------12vv--
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- I'm not sure about this ending...I have not found my CD
- Communique at home. This transcription may be not totally
- correct.
-
- ----------------------------------
- SINGLE HANDED SAILOR
- by
- DIRE straits
- ---------------------------------
- Key: Dm
-
- [Written by Mark Knopfler
- Published by Rondor Music/Straitjacket Songs
- Copyright 1979 Phonogram, London]
-
- Intro: Dm / C : G (2 times)
-
- Dm C Bb F
- > Two in the morning dry-dock town
- Dm C Bb - F
- >The 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
- >
-
- >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
- >
- 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: Dm / C : G
- >
- >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'
- >
- >'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'
- >
- >On a night when the lazy wind is wailing
- >Around the _Cutty Sark_
- >Yeah, single-handed sailor go sailing
- >Sailing away in the dark
- >
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