Biography:
Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. He was the lead guitarist, lead singer, and songwriter for the rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded with his younger brother, David Knopfler, in 1977. He was born in Glasgow but raised near Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Since Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler has recorded and produced nine solo albums and, as with his previous band, produced many hit songs.
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Other songs:
- Brothers In Arms
- Camerado
- Princess Bride Song (storybook Love)
- Remembrance Day
- Romeo And Juliet
- Sailing To Philadelphia
- Speedway At Nazareth
- Storybook Love (the Princess Bride Song)
- True Love Will Never Fade
- What It Is
- 38 Special
- 5 15 Am
- A Night In Summer Long Ago
- After The Beanstalk
- All That I Have In The World
- All That Matters
- All The Roadrunning
- Are We In Trouble Now
- Back On The Dance Floor
- Back To Tupelo
- Baloney Again
- Basil
- Before Gas And Tv
- Behind With The Rent
- Belle Starr
- Beryl
- Beyond My Wildest Dreams
- Blood And Water
- Bluebird
- Boom Like That
- Border Reiver
- Broken Bones
- Cannibals
- Cleaning My Gun
- Corned Beef City
- Daddys Gone To Knoxville
- Darling Pretty
- Devil Baby
- Done With Bonaparte
- Donkey Town
- Dont You Get It
- Down The Road Wherever
- Dream Of The Drowned Submariner
- Drovers Road
- Early Bird
- El Macho
- Every Heart In The Room
- Everybody Pays
- Fare Thee Well Northumberland
- Floating Away
- Get Lucky
- Go Love
- Golden Heart
- Good As Gold
- Good On You Son
- Got To Have Something
- Hard Shoulder
- Haul Away
- Heart Full Of Holes
- Heart Of Oak
- Heavy Up
- Hill Farmers Blues
- Home Boy
- Hot Dog
- I Dug Up A Diamond
- I Used To Could
- If I Had You
- If This Is Goodbye
- In The Sky
- Je Suis Desole
- Je Suis Dsol
- Junkie Doll
- Just A Boy Away From Home
- Kill To Get Crimson
- Kingdom Of Gold
- Laughs And Jokes And Drinks And Smokes
- Let It All Go
- Lights Of Taormina
- Lily Of The West
- Long Cool Girl
- Madame Genevas
- Matchstick Man
- Metroland
- Mighty Man
- Miss You Blues
- Monteleone
- My Bacon Roll
- My Claim To Fame
- My Heart Has Never Changed
- No Wonder Hes Confused
- Nobody Does That
- Nobodys Child
- Occupation Blues
- Oklahoma Ponies
- Old Pigweed
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- One More Matinee
- One Song At A Time
- Our Shangri
- Piper To The End
- Postcards From Paraguay
- Prairie Wedding
- Privateering
- Pulling Down The Ride
- Punish The Monkey
- Quality Shoe
- Radio City Serenade
- Raglan Road
- Redbud Tree
- Right Now
- River Of Grog
- River Towns
- Rollin On
- Rudiger
- Sands Of Nevada
- Seattle
- Secondarty Waltz
- Secondary Waltz
- Shangri
- Silver Eagle
- Silvertown Blues
- Sky And Water
- Skydiver
- Slow Learner
- Small Potatoes
- So Far From The Clyde
- Someday
- Song For Sonny Liston
- Stand Up Guy
- Storybook Love
- Stretching Out
- Sucker Row
- Tall Order Baby
- Terminal Of Tribute To
- The Car Was The One
- The Fish And The Bird
- The Fizzy And The Still
- The Last Laugh
- The Long Highway
- The Ragpickers Dream
- The Scaffolders Wife
- The Trawlermans Song
- The Way It Always Starts
- This Is Us
- Time Will End All Sorrow
- Tracker
- Trapper Man
- Trawlermans Song
- Vic And Ray
- Wanderlust
- Water Of Love
- We Can Get Wild
- When You Leave
- Wherever I Go
- Whoop De Doo
- Whos Your Baby Now
- Why Aye Man
- Yon Two Crows
- You Dont Know Youre Born
- Your Perfect Song
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ARTIST: Mark Knopfler
SONG: One More Matinee
ALBUM: Sailing to Philadelphia
Standard Tuning
Capo: No
Really beautiful song by Mark Knopfler off of his 2000 album Sailing to
Philadelphia. For details with respect to the solo and fingerpicking, check out
the power tab on this site, as it is very accurate!
Unusual chord fingerings:
Esus4 Dsus2 Bbmaj7 Bb6 D5b5
0 0 x x x
0 3 3 3 3
2 2 2 0 1
2 0 3 3 0
2 x 1 1 x
0 x x x x
C G/B
Here's one of the two of us
Am7 F
In 1954 don't laugh
C
I keep all of the pictures
G
Are you going to take a photograph
C Esus4 E
Here's something nice for you
Am F
A dear old thing came to a show
C
Last time here we did
G
An interview on local radio
D5 Dsus2
Make yourself at home my darling
F G
Come on in
D5 Am
Hand me down that jar love
F Bbmaj7 Bb6 Am/G G
Can I offer you a gin
C G/B
We're proud to be the oldest
Am7 F
Ugly sisters in variety
C
There's not the glamor now you see
G
What happened to society
C Esus4 E
There's another light bulb gone
Am F
They don't all answer to the switch
C
I don't know how we carry on
G
And her she couldn't care the bitch
D5 Dsus2
But in a while the old boys
F G
In the band begin to play
D5 Am
And in a while the houselights
F Bbmaj7 Bb6 Am/G G
And the curtains slide away
C
And something's going to happen
C
To make your whole life better
C/Bb F
Your whole life better one day
C
Something's going to happen
Esus4 E Am
To make your whole life better
C G
Your whole life better one day
Solo:
|C G/B|Am7 F|C|G|C Esus4 E|Am F|C|G|D5 Dsus2|F G|D5 Am|F|Bbmaj7 Bb6|Am/G G|
C G/B
Now the landlady's all squared away
Am7 F
It's just a temporary deal
C
I'm afraid tonight it's take-away
G
You see there is no evening meal
C Esus2 E Am
Don't worry dear you shall go to the ball
F
I think the fairy said
C
These suitcases have seen it all
G
From under someone else's bed
D5 Dsus2
You want to smile those tears away
F G
Now don't you cry
D5 Am
You want to know what I say
F Bbmaj7 Bb6 Am/G G
I say never say die
C
'Cos something's going to happen
C
To make your whole life better
C/Bb F
Your whole life better one day
C
Something's going to happen
Esus4 E Am
To make your whole life better
C G
Your whole life better one day
|C G/B|Am7 F|C D5b5|C|
SONG: One More Matinee
ALBUM: Sailing to Philadelphia
Standard Tuning
Capo: No
Really beautiful song by Mark Knopfler off of his 2000 album Sailing to
Philadelphia. For details with respect to the solo and fingerpicking, check out
the power tab on this site, as it is very accurate!
Unusual chord fingerings:
Esus4 Dsus2 Bbmaj7 Bb6 D5b5
0 0 x x x
0 3 3 3 3
2 2 2 0 1
2 0 3 3 0
2 x 1 1 x
0 x x x x
C G/B
Here's one of the two of us
Am7 F
In 1954 don't laugh
C
I keep all of the pictures
G
Are you going to take a photograph
C Esus4 E
Here's something nice for you
Am F
A dear old thing came to a show
C
Last time here we did
G
An interview on local radio
D5 Dsus2
Make yourself at home my darling
F G
Come on in
D5 Am
Hand me down that jar love
F Bbmaj7 Bb6 Am/G G
Can I offer you a gin
C G/B
We're proud to be the oldest
Am7 F
Ugly sisters in variety
C
There's not the glamor now you see
G
What happened to society
C Esus4 E
There's another light bulb gone
Am F
They don't all answer to the switch
C
I don't know how we carry on
G
And her she couldn't care the bitch
D5 Dsus2
But in a while the old boys
F G
In the band begin to play
D5 Am
And in a while the houselights
F Bbmaj7 Bb6 Am/G G
And the curtains slide away
C
And something's going to happen
C
To make your whole life better
C/Bb F
Your whole life better one day
C
Something's going to happen
Esus4 E Am
To make your whole life better
C G
Your whole life better one day
Solo:
|C G/B|Am7 F|C|G|C Esus4 E|Am F|C|G|D5 Dsus2|F G|D5 Am|F|Bbmaj7 Bb6|Am/G G|
C G/B
Now the landlady's all squared away
Am7 F
It's just a temporary deal
C
I'm afraid tonight it's take-away
G
You see there is no evening meal
C Esus2 E Am
Don't worry dear you shall go to the ball
F
I think the fairy said
C
These suitcases have seen it all
G
From under someone else's bed
D5 Dsus2
You want to smile those tears away
F G
Now don't you cry
D5 Am
You want to know what I say
F Bbmaj7 Bb6 Am/G G
I say never say die
C
'Cos something's going to happen
C
To make your whole life better
C/Bb F
Your whole life better one day
C
Something's going to happen
Esus4 E Am
To make your whole life better
C G
Your whole life better one day
|C G/B|Am7 F|C D5b5|C|
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