• Song:

    Occupation Blues

  • Artist:

    Mark Knopfler

Bm7b5 = x2323x


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


 - C5 G5 C5  D5 G5  A5 F5  G5 
 C5 - G5 C5  D5 - G5 E5  A5 F5 
 E5  % 

 A5  %  %  % 


       A5                           E5
I can get you what you want at the market
                          A5   F5
As long as you have the price
                    C5        Bm7(b5)
The colonel is the governor
                   E5
He steals from his own supply
     A5                     E5
The Jail house is full of small fry
                     A5   A5  F5
Who never did much wrong
                   C5
All the big fish swam away
E5        A5
All long gone


C5    D5  G5
All long gone
A5   F5    G5
All long gone
C5    D5  G5
All long gone
A5   F5    E5              A5
All long gone - all long gone


       A5                              E5
I can get you what you want at the market
                    A5   F5
Everybody?s on the make
                    C5        Bm7(b5)
The colonel is the governor
                E5               A5
And he?s on a slice of the cake
                     E5
And everyone in this occupied land
           A5   A5  F5
is on the game
                  C5          E5
And over here in contraband
          A5
It?s the same


C5    D5  G5
All long gone
A5   F5    G5
All long gone
C5    D5  G5
All long gone
A5   F5    E5              A5
All long gone - all long gone


  A5
Chief cook and bottle washer

That?s me
D5      A5
I?m the man

So many people to see
 D5   A5
Contraband

Chief cook and bottle washer

That?s me
D5      A5
I?m the man
             G5
What do you do
  F5            E5
What do you do
                 A5
You do what you can


 A5  E5  %  A5 A5 
 F5  C5  Bm7(b5)  E5 
 A5  E5  %  A5 A5 
 F5  C5  E5 E5  A5 
 A5 


C5    D5  G5
All long gone
A5   F5    G5
All long gone
C5    D5  G5    E5
All long gone
A5   F5    E5              A5
All long gone - all long gone


C5
             G5
There?ll be rain
 C5 D5       G5
behind the wind
 A5        F5       G5    C5
Last night it was cold
      G5  C5  D5        G5
And when   it all caves in
E5  A5    F5   E5
I?ll tell them

I only did what I was told


 A5
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