So Far From The Clyde

-------------------------------------------------------------------------                      So Far From The Clyde - Mark Knopfler ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabber e-mail: Capo: 1 Tempo: 140 Time Signature: 3/4 (Actually 6/8 mixed with 9/8 but you can count to three for each chord) Chords: Asus4 [x02230] Dsus2 [xx0211] [Intro] (chords in round brackets aren’t playing) |    | ()  | / | (/)| | / | (/)|    | ()  | |     |      | () | ()  | () | |    | ()  |    | ()  | |    | ()  | / | (/)| | / | (/)|    | ()  | |     |      | () | ()  | () | |    | ()  | ()| () | [Verse 1] They had a last supper The day of the Beaching   She’s a dead ship sailing   Skeleton Crew       The galley is empty The stove pots are cooling           With what’s left of the stew                [Verse 2] The time is approaching The captain moves over   The hangman steps in   To do what he’s paid for   With the wind down the tide She goes proud ahead steaming       And he drives her hard into the shore           [Chorus] So    far from the Clyde       Together we ride       We did ride           [Interlude] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [Verse 3] As if to a wave From her bows to her rudder   Bravely she rises to meet with the land     Under their feet they all feel her keel shatter       The shallow see washes their hands           [Solo] |    | ()  | /  | (/) | | / | (/)|     | ()   | |     |      | ()  | ()   | () | |    | ()  | () | ()  | [Verse 4] Later the captain Shakes hands with the hangman   And climbs slowly down To the oily wet ground      Goes ’bout to the car that has come here to take him       To the graveyard and back to the town           [Chorus] So    far from the Clyde       Together we ride       We did ride           [Interlude] | | | | | [Verse 5] They pull out her cables And hack off her hatches   Too poor to be wasteful with pity or time     They swarm on her carcass with torches and axes       Like a whale on the bloody shoreline           [Verse 6] Stripped of her pillars Her stays and her stantions When there’s only her bones on the wet poison land      Steel ropes will drag her with winches and engines       ’Til it’s only a stain on the sand            [Chorus] So    far from the Clyde       Together we ride       We did ride                     [Chorus] So    far from the Clyde       Together we ride       We did ride         [Outro] |    | ()  | / | (/)| | / | (/)|    | ()  | |     |      | () | ()  | () | |    | ()  |    | ()  | |    | ()  | / | (/)| | / | (/)|    | ()  | |     |      | () | ()  | () | |    | ()  | ()| () | |    |