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Silvertown Blues

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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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Intro: | Dm | Bb | Dm F | Bb | ---> twice

Dm Bb | Dm F | Bb |
On Silvertown Way the cranes stand high
Dm Bb | Dm F | Bb |
Quiet and gray against the still of the sky
Dm Bb | Dm F | Bb |
They won't quit and lay down though the action has died
Dm Bb | Dm F | Bb |
They watch the new game in town on the Blackwall side

Dm Bb | Dm F | Bb |
From the poisonous drains a vision appears
Dm Bb | Dm F | Bb |
A new circle of cranes, a new reason to be here
Dm Bb | Dm F | Bb |
A big silver dome rising up into the dawn
Dm Bb | Dm F | Bb Dm |
Above the church and the homes where all the silver is gone, gone, gone

Gm Bb C | Am |
If I'd a bucket of gold, what would I do
C Bb F Bb
I'd leave the story untold Silvertown blues

F Bb C Dm
I'm going down in Silvertown, down in Silvertown
Bb C | F F F C |
Going down in Silvertown, down in Silvertown

Dm Bb | Dm F | Bb |
A silver dawn steals over the docks
Dm Bb | Dm F | Bb |
A truck with no wheels up on the cinderblocks
Dm Bb | Dm F | Bb |
Men with no dreams around a fire in a drum
Dm Bb | Dm F | Bb Dm |
Scrap metal schemes rusted over and done, done, done

Gm Bb C | Am |
If I'd a bucket of gold, silver would do
C Bb F Bb
I'd leave the story untold Silvertown blues

F Bb C Dm
And I'm going down in Silvertown, down in Silvertown
F Bb C | F F F C |
Going down in Silvertown, down in Silvertown

Dm F Bb | Dm F | Bb |
When you're standing on thin and dangerous ice
Dm F Bb | Dm F | Bb |
You can knock and walk in for citizens' advice
Dm F Bb | Dm F | Bb |
They'll tell you where you can turn, where you can go
Dm F Bb | Dm F | Bb Dm |
There's nothing they can tell me I don't already know

Gm Bb C Am
If I'd a bucket of gold, silver would do
C Bb F Bb
I'd leave the story untold Silvertown blues

F Bb C Dm
And I'm going down in Silvertown, down in Silvertown
F Bb C | F F F C |
Going down in Silvertown, down in Silvertown

Dm F Bb | Dm F | Bb |
From the Canning Town train I see a billboard high
Dm F Bb | Dm F | Bb |
There's a big silver plane rising up into the sky
Dm F Bb | Dm F | Bb |
And I can make out the words 'seven flights every day'
Dm F Bb | Dm F | Bb Dm |
Says six of those birds are bound for JFK

Gm Bb C | Am |
If I'd a bucket of gold, silver would do
C Bb F Bb
I'd leave the story untold Silvertown blues

F Bb C Dm
And I'm going down in Silvertown, down in Silvertown
F Bb C F
Going down in Silvertown, down in Silvertown
C Dm F Bb F C Dm
And I'm going down in Silvertown, down in Silvertown
C Bb C F
Going down in Silvertown, down in Silvertown

Solo: | F C | Dm F | Bb F | C | Dm F | Bb | C | C |

F C7 F C7 Dm C | Bb F | C |
Down in Silvertown, down in Silvertown, down in Silvertown