Received: from * by * (*.4)
with SMTP id ; Thu, 14 Oct 1993 18:55:52 -0700
Received: from * by * id ; Thu, 14 Oct 1993 18:55:49 -0700
Received: from * by * (PMDF #3049 ) id
; Thu, 14 Oct 1993 15:24:55 EDT
Date: 14 Oct 1993 15:24:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: URBAN JOSEPH DE SOUZA
Subject: SingleHandedSailor by DireStraits
To: *
Message-Id:
X-Vms-To: IN%"*"
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
----------------------------------
SINGLE HANDED SAILOR Contributed by:
by Alessandro Borille
(*)
(*)
---------------------------------
Key: Dm
[Written by Mark Knopfler
Published by Rondor Music/Straitjacket Songs
Copyright 1979 Phonogram, London]
Tab key_______________________
10^12 : slide from 10th to 12th fret
10^(12) : bending (one tone) on 10th fret
(12)^10 : descending bend note on 10th fret
10vv : vibrato note
10>12 : hammer on
1212------------------
|D---------------------------
|A---------------------------
|E---------------------------
C
---------------10----------
-----------10------13vv----
----10>12------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
G |--> a fill (this appears in 2 types:
------------------------------15------------------------------------
-----------10------13^(15)--------(15)^13---------------------------
----10>12------10--------------------------10>13The river rolled awa
-|
-|
-|
-|
-|
-|
2nd)
----
----
y in the night
DmCBbF
>Little _Gypsy Moth_ she's all tied down
DmCBb - F
>She put her in the wind and the light
>
Verse 2
>Yeah, the sailing ship is just a-held down in chains
>From the lazy days of sail
>She's just lying there, silent pain
>You lean on the tourist rail
>
Chorus 1
AmDmDm-C-Bb
>A mother and her baby and the College of war
C
>And the concrete grave
DmCBbF
>You never want to fight against the river law
GmBb
>Nobody rules the waves
> CA7Dm
>Yeah, on a night when the lazy wind is wailing
Página 3 / 7
BbC
>Around the _Cutty Sark_
DmCBbF
>Single-handed sailor go sailing
GmBb
>Sailing away in the dark
Guitar intro solo: Dm / C : G ( twice over)
Verse 3
>He's up on the bridge on the self-same night
>A mariner of dry-dock land
>Two in the morning, well there's one green light
>And the man on the barge is sayin'
>
Chorus 2
>'She's a-gonna slip away below him
>Away from things he's done'
>But he just shouts, 'Hey man whatcha call this thing?'
>Could say, 'Pride of London'
>
>On a night when the lazy wind is wailing
>Around the _Cutty Sark_
>Yeah, single-handed sailor go sailing
>Sailing away in the dark
>
Final solo:
Repeat intro solo and then:
DmDm
|E------------------------|-----------------------|-
|B--151515^18vv---|--151515^18vv--|-
|G------------------------|-----------------------|-
|D------------------------|-----------------------|-
|A------------------------|-----------------------|-
|E------------------------|-----------------------|-
CG
------------------------|---------------------------
--151515^17vv---|-----13>1515^*
------------------------|--14-----------------------
------------------------|---------------------------
------------------------|---------------------------
------------------------|---------------------------
Página 4 / 7
________ ________ ________ ________
Dm | 3 | | 3 | | 3 | |
--------------------------|-------------------------------------------
--18^(20)--18 A mother and her baby in the college of war
-|------
-|
(A mother and her baby and the College of war)
C
> In the concrete grave
(And the concrete grave)
DmCBbF
> You never want to fight against the river law
GmBb
> Nobody rules the waves
>
CA7Dm
> Yeah, on a night when the lazy wind is wailing
BbC
> Around the cutting saw
(Around the _Cutty Sark_)
DmCBbF
> Single-handed sailor go sailing
GmBb
> Singing away in the dark
(Sailing away in the dark)
>
(Guitar: Dm / C : G)
> He's up on the bridge on the self-say night
(He's up on the bridge on the self-same night)
> A mariner of dried-up land
(A mariner of dry-dock land)
> Two in the morning, well there's one green light
> And the man on the barge is sad
(And the man on the barge is sayin')
>
> She's gonna step away below him
('She's a-gonna slip away below him)
> Away from things he's done
> But he just shouts, "Hey man whatcha call this thing?"
> She could say, "Pride of London"
(Could say, 'Pride of London')
>
> On a night when the lazy wind is wailing
> Around the cutting saw
(Around the _Cutty Sark_)
> Yeah, single-handed sailor go sailing
Página 5 / 7
> Singing away in the dark
(Sailing away in the dark)
For the intro: I tried to play the long note as a slide note. I have to
say
that it sounds much better.
Tab notation followed:-----------------
10^12 : slide from 10th to 12th fret
10^(12) : bending (one tone) on 10th fret
(12)^10 : descending bend note on 10th fret
10vv : vibrato note
10>12 : hammer on
1212------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
---------------10---------------
-----------10------13^*
----10>12-----------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
---------------10----------
-----------10------13vv----
----10>12------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
-----------10------13^(15)-
----10>12------10----------
---------------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
---------------10----------
-----------10------13^15vv-
----10>12------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------