• Song:

    Single Handed Sailor

  • Artist:

    Dire Straits

  • Album:

    Dire Straits 3 Original...

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----------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- ---------------10---------- -----------10------13vv---- ----10>12------------------ --------------------------- --------------------------- --------------------------- --------------------------- -----------10------13^(15)- ----10>12------10---------- --------------------------- --------------------------- --------------------------- ---------------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-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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