Mark Knopfler – Basil (Guitar)
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Key: A Minor
Time: 6/8 with single 3/8 bars
CAPO: No
C/G..........................[332010]
Dm/A.........................[x00231]
Fmaj7........................[133210]
D9/F#........................[2x0210]
Bm7b5........................[x2323x]
| C | E7 | Am | % |
| Am | % |
(Am) C/G F Dm/A My Saturday job pays six and six down F A copy boy at the Chronicle Am C/G F Dm/A Five cigarettes and two silver half crowns F Dm/A Meeting Vince at Mark Toney's in town F Am Boy, do we get around (Am) C/G F Dm Basil sits there on the table for subs F But not a part of the Bri-nylon club Am C/G F Ancient blue sweater, too old for the job Dm Bored out of his mind F With the Colins and Bobs C/G Fmaj7 I'm a jack and a lad C Fmaj7 And I'm up for the world C F Am And I've kissed a Gateshead girl (Am) C/G F Dm He calls for a copy boy, grumpy as hell F Poets have to eat as well Am C F Dm What he wouldn't give just to walk out today F Dm To have time to think about time F And young love thrown away C Fmaj7 I'm a jack and a lad C Fmaj7 And I'm up for the world C F And I've kissed a Gateshead girl F C E7 Starlings swarming a cloud Am Over Grainger Street F Over the black church Dm C E7 Over the Black Gate (Am) And the shadowy Keep
| Am | D9/F# | Bm7b5 | E7 |
| F | % | C | E7 |
| Am | % |
(Am) He peers through his wire rims C/G F Dm At the fish and chip words F He's supposed to dish up and forget Am C F His drudgery now has become slightly blurred Dm F By one of his Players untipped cigarettes C Fmaj7 Bury all joy C Fmaj7 Put the poems in sacks C F And bury me here with the hacks
| Am | Am7 | % | Am |
(Am) In the summer the fair C/G F Will stretch over the Moor Dm/A F Lovers will lie and make out in the park Am C/G F Dm/A Basil puts on his old duffel and scarf F And goes out into the dark
| C | Fmaj7 | C | Fmaj7 |
| C | F | % |
| F |