Mark Knopfler – So Far From The Clyde (Guitar)
Capo 1
Key
-
Versions
(3)
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
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Tabber e-mail: [email protected]
(Actually 6/8 mixed with 9/8, but you can count to three for each chord)
Chords:
Asus4 [x02230]
Dsus2 [xx0211]
[Intro]
(chords in round brackets aren't playing)
| Am | (Am) | G/B | (G/B)|
| Am/C | (Am/C)| G | (G) |
| G | F | (F) | (F) | (F) |
| Dm | (Dm) | G | (G) |
| Am | (Am) | G/B | (G/B)|
| Am/C | (Am/C)| G | (G) |
| G | F | (F) | (F) | (F) |
| Am | (Am) | (Am)| (Am) |
[Verse 1]
Am Am They had a last supper G Am Am The day of the Beaching Am C She's a dead ship sailing Em Em Em Skeleton Crew F F The galley is empty C Am Am Am Am The stove pots are cooling F F Am Asus4 Am Am With what's left of the stew
[Verse 2]
Am Am The time is approaching G Am Am The captain moves over Am C The hangman steps in Em Em Em To do what he's paid for F F With the wind down the tide C Am Am Am She goes proud ahead steaming F F Am Am Am Am And he drives her hard into the shore
[Chorus]
C C Em Em F F F So far from the Clyde F Dm Dm Dm Together we ride Dm F F F F We did ride
[Interlude]
| Am | Am | Am | Am |
| Am | Am | Am | Am |
| Am | Am | Am | Am |
[Verse 3]
Am Am As if to a wave G Am Am From her bows to her rudder Am C Em Em Em Bravely she rises to meet with the land F F C Am Am Am Under their feet they all feel her keel shatter F F Am Am Am Am The shallow see washes their hands
[Solo]
| Am | (Am) | G/B | (G/B) |
| Am/C | (Am/C)| G | (G) |
| G | F | (F) | (F) | (F) |
| Am | (Am) | (Am) | (Am) |
[Verse 4]
Am Am Later the captain G Am Am Shakes hands with the hangman Am C And climbs slowly down Em Em Em To the oily wet ground F F C Am Am Am Goes 'bout to the car that has come here to take him F F Am Am Am Am To the graveyard and back to the town
[Chorus]
C C Em Em F F F So far from the Clyde F Dm Dm Dm Together we ride Dm F F F F We did ride
[Interlude]
| Am | Am | Am | Am |
[Verse 5]
Am Am They pull out her cables G Am Am And hack off her hatches Am C Em Em Em Too poor to be wasteful with pity or time F F C Am Am Am They swarm on her carcass with torches and axes F F Am Am Am Am Like a whale on the bloody shoreline
[Verse 6]
Am Am Stripped of her pillars G Am Am Her stays and her stantions Am C Em Em Em When there's only her bones on the wet poison land F F C Am Am Am Steel ropes will drag her with winches and engines F F Am Am Am Am 'Til it's only a stain on the sand
[Chorus]
C C Em Em F F F So far from the Clyde F Dm Dm Dm Together we ride F F/E Dsus2 Dsus2/A We did ride
[Chorus]
C C Em Em F F F So far from the Clyde F Dm Dm Dm Together we ride Dm F F F F We did ride
[Outro]
| Am | (Am) | G/B | (G/B)|
| Am/C | (Am/C)| G | (G) |
| G | F | (F) | (F) | (F) |
| Dm | (Dm) | G | (G) |
| Am | (Am) | G/B | (G/B)|
| Am/C | (Am/C)| G | (G) |
| G | F | (F) | (F) | (F) |
| Am | (Am) | (Am)| (Am) |
| Am |