Dire Straits – In The Gallery (Guitar)

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Harry made a bareback rider     proud and free upon a horse

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And a fine coalminer   for the NCB that was

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A fallen angel   and Jesus on the cross

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A skating ballerina   you should have seen her do the skater's waltz

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Some people have got to paint and draw

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Harry had to work in clay and stone

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Like the waves coming to the shore

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It was in his blood and in his bones

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It was ignored by all the trendy boys in London and in Leeds

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He might as well have been making toys    or strings of beads

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He could'nt be...   He could'nt be.....in the gallery

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And then you get an artist    says he doesn't want to paint at all

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He takes an empty canvas   and sticks it on the wall

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The birds of a feather   all the phonies and all of the fakes

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While the dealers they get together

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And they decide who gets the breaks

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And who's going to be, who's going to be     in the gallery

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  No lies he wouldn't compromise

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No junk, no bits of string

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And all the lies we subsidise

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That just don't mean a thing

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I've got to say he passed away in obscurity

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And now all the vultures   are coming down from the tree

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So he's going to be, so he's going to be ... in the gallery