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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What it is - Mark Knopfler
From the album: Sailing to philadelphia
Didn`t find any decent chords for this excellent song, so I
decided to tab it myself. I capo it on the 2nd fret to suit my voice better,
but I think it`s most accurate to the original without a capo.
Chords by Rune T. from Norway.
(A) = Play quick, one strum
[Intro]
F#m (A) D A
F#m (A) D E
[Verse]
F#m A
The drinking dens are spilling out and staggering in the square
D A E
There`s lads and lassies falling about and a crackling in the air
F#m A
Down around the dungeon doors, the shelters and the keeps
D A E (F#m)
Everybody`s looking for somebody`s arms to fall into this way
That`s what it is now...
(Riff: Sorry, I stole this one..)
fast (1/2) bend
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
H|---------------------5/7~--5h7p5----6BU7-7---------------|
G|---2h4BU6BD4p2------6---------------------6--------------|
D|--4----------------7-----------------------7----6--------|
A|-----------------------------------------------9BUBD7----|
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
or: F#m (A) D E
[Chorus]
F#m (A) D A
It`s (that`s) what it is
F#m (A) D E
It`s what it is now
[Verse 2]
(same chords)
There`s frost on the graves and the monuments but the taverns are warm in town
People curse the government and shovel hot food down
Lights are out in city hall ,the castle and the keep
Moon shines down upon it all the legless and asleep
[Pre-Chorus]
D A
Cold on the tollgate where the wagons creeping through
D A E
Cold on the tollgate God knows what I can do with you
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
(same chords)
The garnison sleeps in the citadel with the ghosts and the ancient stones
High on the parapet the scottish pipers stands alone
High on the wind the highland drums begin to roll
And something from the past just comes and stares into my soul
[Pre-Chorus]
D A
Cold on the tollgate where the caledonian blues
D A E
Cold on the tollgate god knows what I can do with you
[Chorus]
[Verse 4]
(same chords)
There’s a chink of light as a burning wick, there’s a lantern in the tower
Wee Willie Winkie with the candle sticks still writing songs in the wee Wee hours
On charlotte street they take a walking stick from my hotel
The ghost of Dirty Dick is still in search of little nell
[Chorus]
************************************
| h Hammer-on
| p Pull-off
| / Slide up
| ~ Vibrato
| BD bend down
| BU bend up
************************************
From the album: Sailing to philadelphia
Didn`t find any decent chords for this excellent song, so I
decided to tab it myself. I capo it on the 2nd fret to suit my voice better,
but I think it`s most accurate to the original without a capo.
Chords by Rune T. from Norway.
(A) = Play quick, one strum
[Intro]
F#m (A) D A
F#m (A) D E
[Verse]
F#m A
The drinking dens are spilling out and staggering in the square
D A E
There`s lads and lassies falling about and a crackling in the air
F#m A
Down around the dungeon doors, the shelters and the keeps
D A E (F#m)
Everybody`s looking for somebody`s arms to fall into this way
That`s what it is now...
(Riff: Sorry, I stole this one..)
fast (1/2) bend
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
H|---------------------5/7~--5h7p5----6BU7-7---------------|
G|---2h4BU6BD4p2------6---------------------6--------------|
D|--4----------------7-----------------------7----6--------|
A|-----------------------------------------------9BUBD7----|
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
or: F#m (A) D E
[Chorus]
F#m (A) D A
It`s (that`s) what it is
F#m (A) D E
It`s what it is now
[Verse 2]
(same chords)
There`s frost on the graves and the monuments but the taverns are warm in town
People curse the government and shovel hot food down
Lights are out in city hall ,the castle and the keep
Moon shines down upon it all the legless and asleep
[Pre-Chorus]
D A
Cold on the tollgate where the wagons creeping through
D A E
Cold on the tollgate God knows what I can do with you
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
(same chords)
The garnison sleeps in the citadel with the ghosts and the ancient stones
High on the parapet the scottish pipers stands alone
High on the wind the highland drums begin to roll
And something from the past just comes and stares into my soul
[Pre-Chorus]
D A
Cold on the tollgate where the caledonian blues
D A E
Cold on the tollgate god knows what I can do with you
[Chorus]
[Verse 4]
(same chords)
There’s a chink of light as a burning wick, there’s a lantern in the tower
Wee Willie Winkie with the candle sticks still writing songs in the wee Wee hours
On charlotte street they take a walking stick from my hotel
The ghost of Dirty Dick is still in search of little nell
[Chorus]
************************************
| h Hammer-on
| p Pull-off
| / Slide up
| ~ Vibrato
| BD bend down
| BU bend up
************************************
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