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Dire Straits - Single Handed Sailor guitar tab

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From: URBAN JOSEPH DE SOUZA

Subject: SingleHandedSailor by DireStraits

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SINGLE HANDED SAILOR Contributed by:

by Alessandro Borille

(paride@arianna.dei.unipd.it)

dIRE sTRAITS & Urban J deSouza

(ujd@ecl.psu.edu)

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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

1212------------------

|D---------------------------

|A---------------------------

|E---------------------------

Dm

---------------10---------------

-----------10------13^15.--15vv-

----10>12-----------------------

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C

---------------10----------

-----------10------13vv----

----10>12------------------

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G

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-----------10------13^(15)-

----10>12------10----------

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(repeating ...)

Dm

---------------10----------

-----------10------13^15vv-

----10>12------------------

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Dm

---------------10---------------

-----------10------13^15.--15vv-

----10>12-----------------------

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C

---------------10----------

-----------10------13vv----

----10>12------------------

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G |--> a fill (this appears in 2 types: 2nd)

------------------------------15----------------------------------------

-----------10------13^(15)--------(15)^13-------------------------------

----10>12------10--------------------------10>13The river rolled away in the night

Dm C Bb F

>Little _Gypsy Moth_ she's all tied down

Dm C Bb - F

>She put her in the wind and the light

>

Verse 2

>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

>

Chorus 1

Am Dm Dm-C-Bb

>A mother and her baby and the College of war

C

>And 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 _Cutty Sark_

Dm C Bb F

>Single-handed sailor go sailing

Gm Bb

>Sailing away in the dark

Guitar intro solo: Dm / C : G ( twice over)

Verse 3

>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'

>

Chorus 2

>'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:

Dm Dm

|E------------------------|-----------------------|-

|B--151515^18vv---|--151515^18vv--|-

|G------------------------|-----------------------|-

|D------------------------|-----------------------|-

|A------------------------|-----------------------|-

|E------------------------|-----------------------|-

C G

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--151515^17vv---|-----13>1515^18.-18vv--

------------------------|--14-----------------------

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________ ________ ________ ________

Dm | 3 | | 3 | | 3 | | 3 |

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--18^(20)--18 And the man on the barge is sad

(And the man on the barge is sayin')

>

> She's gonna step away below him

('She's a-gonna slip 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"

(Could say, 'Pride of London')

>

> On a night when the lazy wind is wailing

> Around the cutting saw

(Around the _Cutty Sark_)

> Yeah, single-handed sailor go sailing

> Singing away in the dark

(Sailing 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

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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------------------------------15----------------------------------------

-----------10------13^(15)--------(15)^13-------------------------------

----10>12------10--------------------------10>13

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