Learn Music: Single Handed Sailor guitar chords - Dire Straits tabs

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  Single Handed Sailor - Dire Straits
  
  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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