Mark Knopfler – Tunnel 13 (Guitar)

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[Intro] Bm A E G Bm A Bm Bm A E G Bm A Bm Bm [Verse 1]
       Bm       C#             E            Bm
In the Siskiyou Mountains, the old railroad winds

            Bm           E              Em           F#
Through the golds of the maples and the green of the pines

      Bm      D      A        G
Up to Tunnel 13, the Southern she climbs

                  Bm           A       Bm
And three bandits waiting with evil in mind
[Verse 2]
      Bm        C#           E            Bm
The D'Autremont brothers had chosen their road

Bm        E         Em       F#
Chosen to live by a criminal code

Bm           D            A           G
Word was the mail car was loaded with gold

                 Bm               A          Bm
The brothers had heard it, or had maybe been told
[Instrumental] Bm D E G Bm A Bm A Bm [Bridge]
     D                    Em         A
They wanted no witnesses, that was a fact

                  Bm        G             A
The brothers were bent on a barbarous act

               D          G           A
Gold there was none, only sadness and tears

            F#           Bm   G          A
And the law coming after them year after year
[Verse 3]
      Bm              C#            E            Bm
Three bandits, hearts filled with resentment and hate

            Bm          E              Em          F#
Killed mail clerk Elvyn Daugherty, engineer Sydney Bates

     Bm          D                  A         G
With shotgun and pistols, they were panicking when

                           Bm              A          Bm
They killed brakeman Coyle Johnson and fireman Marvin Seng
[Verse 4]
Bm          C#            E          Bm
Robbing and looting is as old as the hills

        Bm            E                   Em           F#
They're still jumping freight trains with crowbars and drills

  Bm            D        A         G
A hundred years later in Downtown LA

                     Bm         A          Bm
They rob the Union Pacific damn near every day
[Verse 5]
     Bm           C#              E            Bm
Four good men lay murdered in the dogwoods and pines

        Bm         E            Em           F#
Leaving widows and children and heartbreak behind

Bm      D        A            G
Tunnel 13 is the place in the song

                    Bm             A           Bm
Where the beautiful redwood for my guitar came from
[Outro] Bm D E G Bm A Bm A Bm D E G Bm A Bm A Bm D E G Bm A Bm A Bm D E G Bm A Bm A Bm D E G Bm A Bm A Bm D E G Bm A Bm A Bm D E G Bm A Bm A Bm D E G Bm A Bm A Bm D E G Bm A Bm A Bm