Single-Handed Sailor Lyrics

Single Handed Sailor - Dire Straits
Key: Dm
(Written by Mark Knopfler
Published by Rondor Music/Straitjacket Songs
Copyright 1979 Phonogram, London)
Tab key_______________________
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
(repeating ...)
G |--> a fill (this appears in 2 types: 2nd)
>Little _Gypsy Moth_ she's all tied down
>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
>
>A mother and her baby and the College of war
>And the concrete grave
>You never want to fight against the river law
>Nobody rules the waves
> C A7 Dm
>Yeah, on a night when the lazy wind is wailing
>Around the _Cutty Sark_
>Single-handed sailor go sailing
>Sailing away in the dark
Guitar intro solo: Dm / C : G ( twice over)
>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
>
Final solo:
Repeat intro solo and then:
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