Single Handed Sailor
Single Handed Sailor - Dire Straits
Вступление: 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 Вступление: 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
1212------------------
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---------------10---------------
-----------10------13^15.--15vv-
----10>12-----------------------
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---------------10----------
-----------10------13vv----
----10>12------------------
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-----------10------13^(15)-
----10>12------10----------
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---------------10----------
-----------10------13^15vv-
----10>12------------------
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---------------10---------------
-----------10------13^15.--15vv-
----10>12-----------------------
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---------------10----------
-----------10------13vv----
----10>12------------------
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-----------10------13^(15)--------(15)^13-------------------------------
----10>12------10--------------------------10>13
