Dire Straits – Skateaway (Guitar)

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[Intro] | D - - G | C - - - | D - - G | C - G - | x2 [Verse 1]
         D                          G C
I seen a girl on a one-way corridor

                 D              G  C  G
Stealing down a wrong-way street

D                           G      C
  For all the world like an urban toreador

        D         G C          G  
She had wheels on,  on her feet

D                      G     C      
  Well the cars do the usual dances

D                          G        C     G
  Same old cruise and the kerbside crawl

D                            G      C        
  But the Rollergirl, she's taking chances

D               G      C           G
  Just love to see her   take them all
[Pre-chorus]
A           C                   Em                        G
  No fear alone at night, she's sailing through the crowd

A                   C                        G               A       G A
  In her ears the phones are tight, and the music's playing loud
[Verse 2]
D          G C               
  Hallelujah,  here she comes

D              G   C  G 
  Queen rollerball

D              G C                
  And "Enchanté",  what can I say

D               G   C   G 
  Don't care at all

D               G               C
  You know, she used to have to wait around

                    D         G C  G  
She used to be the lonely one

D                   G  C                
  But now that she can   skate around town

D               G  C    G   
  She's the only,   only one
[Pre-chorus]
A           C                   Em                         G
  No fear alone at night, she's sailing through the crowd

A                   C                                       D   
  In her ears the phones are tight, and the music's playing loud
[Chorus]
C      D    G                            Bm      
  She gets rock n roll, on a rock n roll station

Em                         D
  And a rock n roll dream

C                     Bm Am             G/D
  She's making movies       on location

               D
She don't know what it means

         G                                 Bm
And the music make her wanna be the story

          Em                                        
And the story was whatever was the song, what it was

C             Am            G/D
  Rollergirl,   don't worry

               D     Em     D     C               G     A 
D.J. play the movies   all night long, all night long
[Verse 3]
D      G        C                        
  She tortures taxi drivers just for fun

D                            G C  G 
  She like to read their lips

D                    G   C                            
  Says, "Toro, toro taxi,  see ya tomorrow my son"

D                           G   C                G 
  I swear she let a big truck   graze her hip,   ah!

D                  G            C       
  She got her own world in the city, hey

D                       G   C       G  
  You can't intrude on her,   no, no, no

D             G    C            
  She got her own world in the city

D                 G   C          G   
  The city's been so rude to her 
[Pre-chorus]
A            C             Em                         G
  No fears alone at night, sailing through the crowd

A                 C                                         D   
  In her ears the phones are tight, and the music's playing loud
[Chorus]
C      D    G                            Bm      
  She gets rock n roll, on a rock n roll station

Em                          D
  And a rock n roll dream

C                     Bm Am             G/D
  She's making movies      on location

                 D
She don't know what it means

         G                                Bm
But the music make her wanna be the story

          Em                                        
And the story was whatever was the song, what it was

C             Am            G/D
  Rollergirl,   don't worry

               D     Em     D     C     G   A 
D.J. play the movies   all night long
[Verse 4]
D G C                      
      Slippin' and a-slidin'

D        G       C            G  
  Yeah, life's a   rollerball

D                      G    C 
  Slippin' and a-slidin'

D           G  C          G   D G C 
  Skateaway,   that's all

D           G C G 
  Skateaway

D                G    C    D          G  C  G
  Shala, shalay, hey, hey,  skateaway

       D             G    C    D          G  C  G
Now, Shala, shalay, hey, hey,  skateaway

                D             G    C    D        G  C  G
She's singin' shala, shalay, hey, hey, skateaway
[Outro]
| D - - G | C - - - | D - - G | C - G - | x12
(fade out)