Mark Knopfler – Let It All Go (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro]
e|---------------------------------------------------2---|
B|---5h7---3h5--3------3----------0h3p0--------------3---|
G|-----------------5-2------0h2----------0h2p0-------2---|
D|-------------------------------------------------0-0---|
A|-----------------------------------------------3b--0---|
E|-------------------------------------------------------|
Depending on the part of the song use both open chords and barre chords, in chorus go D C as barre chords and to Em etc as opened. Here's a fill 1 in chorus when it goes
    D      C                  Em
So go, forget it, let it all go

            D
let it all go
On that D chord MK plays a lick like this: [Fill 1]
e|--2h3p2--------------|
B|--------5-3----------|
G|---------------------|
D|---------------------|
A|---------------------|
E|---------------------|
And on C in chorus he plays over C chord going to D
       D                  C    D
Go, forget it, let it all go
[Fill 2]
e|-----------------------------|
B|---3h5p3---------------------|
G|----------5--2---------------|
D|-----------------------------|
A|-----------------------------|
E|-----------------------------|
On change between C to Bm to C he plays a fill 3
     Bm          C    Fill 3 Bm
as though I’m a saint

e|------------------|
B|---2h3p2----------|
G|----------4-2-----|
D|------------------|
A|------------------|
E|------------------|

           D            C
When it’s pop goes the weasel

 G            D
let go of the easel

     D
You don’t want

      C       G       D
this rickety rackety life

      D            C
It’s seat of the trousers

          G        D
It’s all sink or swim, son

                 C
I’d kill to get crimson

     G           D
on this palette knife

          Em
And I’d steal in a minute

    C
I’m up to here in it

 Em
You here behaving

     Bm          C  fill 3 Bm
as though I’m a saint

       D          C
Get a job with a pension

 G          D
Don’t ever mention

                 C
you once had a craving

          G          D
for the brushes and paint

    D      C                  Em
So go, forget it, let it all go
D fill 1 G let it all go
        D                  C fill 2  D
Go, forget it, let it all go

        C                  Em
Go, forget it, let it all go
D fill 1 G let it all go
        D                  C
Go, forget it, let it all go

            Bm
Let it all go
Intro lick
   D           C
A hack writer judges

     G             D
my swipes and my smudges

     D           C
he doesn’t like pictures

       G            D
with blotches and blots

      D           C
The drawing room tea set

       G       D
wants horses, sunsets

       C
sweet nothings -

     G            D
the seaside with yachts

           Em
Here’s the end of the thirties

 C
no time for arties

 Em
over in Poland

   Bm           C  fill 3 Bm
a right old to-do

    D           C
So go join the navy

    G                D
the air force or the army

                  C
They’ll all be enrolling

       G            D
young fellows like you

    D      C                  Em
So go, forget it, let it all go
D fill 1 G let it all go
        D                  C  fill 2   D
Go, forget it, let it all go

        C                  Em
Go, forget it, let it all go
D fill 1 G let it all go
        D                  C
Go, forget it, let it all go

            Bm
Let it all go
Intro lick
           D        C
These are not my decisions

    G               D
To have all these visions

        C
ringing expressions

      G         D
the clamouring voice

         D       C
It’s volcanic desire

       G          D
the unquenchable fire

             C
It isn’t a question

    G           D
of having the choice

    Em
Anyway, now I’m old

   C
but if you won’t be told

    Em
if you’ve been created

   Bm          C    fill 3 Bm
to answer the call

     D           C
all passion and lust

            G           D
is going to end in the dust

            D
but you’ll hang on some

 C          G       D
government gallery wall

          D      C                  Em
You must go, forget it, let it all go
D fill 1 G let it all go
        D                  C  fill 2   D
Go, forget it, let it all go

        C                  Em
Go, forget it, let it all go
D fill 1 G let it all go
        D                  C
Go, forget it, let it all go

            Bm
Let it all go
Play Intro and end on D