• Song:

    Occupation Blues

  • Artist:

    Mark Knopfler

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Occupation Blues by Mark Knopfler from Privateering album
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Bm7b5 = x2323x

Time: 4/4
Key: C# Minor
Capo: 3 fret

| - C (x32010@1)name="chord_143121@7">G/B C| (x32010@1)Dm (xx0231@1)name="chord_320003@1">G | Am (x02210@1)name="chord_133211@1">F | G| (320003@1)| C - G/B C | Dm - G E7/Ab | Am F |
| E7 | % |

| Am| (x02210@1)% | % | % |

Am (x02210@1)                         E7I (020130@1)can get you what you want at the market
                          Am (x02210@1) FAs (133211@1)long as you have the price
                    C (x32010@1)      Bm7b5
The colonel is the governor
                   E7He (020130@1)steals from his own supply
     Am (x02210@1)                   E7The (020130@1)Jail house is full of small fry
                     Am (x02210@1) Am/G (302210@1)FWho (133211@1)never did much wrong
                   CAll (x32010@1)the big fish swam away
E7 (020130@1)      AmAll (x02210@1)long gone

C (x32010@1)  Dm7  GAll (320003@1)long gone
Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1)  GAll (320003@1)long gone
C (x32010@1)  Dm7  GAll (320003@1)long gone
Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1)  E7 (020130@1)            AmAll (x02210@1)long gone - all long gone

Am (x02210@1)                            E7I (020130@1)can get you what you want at the market
                    Am (x02210@1) FEverybody's (133211@1)on the make
                    C (x32010@1)      Bm7b5
The colonel is the governor
                E7 (020130@1)             AmAnd (x02210@1)he's on a slice of the cake
                     E7And (020130@1)everyone in this occupied land
           Am (x02210@1) Am/G (302210@1)Fis (133211@1)on the game
                  C (x32010@1)        E7And (020130@1)over here in contraband
          AmIt's (x02210@1)the same

C (x32010@1)  Dm7  GAll (320003@1)long gone
Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1)  GAll (320003@1)long gone
C (x32010@1)  Dm7  GAll (320003@1)long gone
Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1)  E7 (020130@1)            AmAll (x02210@1)long gone - all long gone

AmChief (x02210@1)cook and bottle washer

That's me
Dm6 (xx0201@1)    AmI'm (x02210@1)the man

So many people to see
 Dm6 (xx0201@1) AmContraband (x02210@1)
Chief cook and bottle washer

That's me
Dm6 (xx0201@1)    AmI'm (x02210@1)the man
             GWhat (320003@1)do you do
  F7 (131241@1)          E7What (020130@1)do you do
                 AmYou (x02210@1)do what you can

| Am | E7 | % | Am Am/G |
| F | C | Bm7b5 | E7 |
| Am | E7 | % | Am Am/G |
| F | C | E/G# E7 | Am |
| Am |

C (x32010@1)  Dm7  GAll (320003@1)long gone
Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1)  GAll (320003@1)long gone
C (x32010@1)  Dm7  G (320003@1)  E/G#All (143121@4)long gone
Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1)  E7 (020130@1)            AmAll (x02210@1)long gone - all long gone

C (x32010@1)            G/BThere'll (143121@7)be rain
 C (x32010@1)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm       Gbehind (320003@1)the wind
 Am (x02210@1)      F (133211@1)     G (320003@1)  C/GLast (3x555x@1)night it was cold
      G/B (143121@7)C (x32010@1)Dm (xx0231@1)      GAnd (320003@1)when   it all caves in
E/G# (143121@4)Am (x02210@1)  F (133211@1) E7I'll (020130@1)tell them

I only did what I was told

| Am |
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