Tracker
Mark Knopfler
Chords was uploaded on 13th March 2015. Last edited: 16th March 2015 ___________________________________________________________________________________ Complete Tracker Chord Songbook by Pavel Fomenkov Use search box above for individual song chords For any questions mail me to ___________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes Key: C Major Time: 6/8 with single 3/8 bars To get that folk feeling play some chords with G on top. For instance F like [1x3213] C like [x32013] and so on. CAPO: No C/G.......................[332010] | Am7 Em7 | x12 | | | | 3/8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | % | Laughs and jokes And drinks and smokes And no lights on the stairs We were young so young And always broke Not that we ever cared Not that we ever cared Well the holes in the walls Were such a lot Welcome to London town But when you’re new to it all And you think you’re hot You’re not planning on hanging around People would go on their different ways I left to start a band A note came through the letter box In your childlike hand Oh laughs and jokes And drinks and smokes And no lights on the stairs We were young so young And always broke Not that we ever cared Not that we ever cared One day I rode to where you were The doorbell jangled a note They buzzed me in I climbed the stairs In my boots and leather coat There’s an old brass Standing there at the top Without her witch’s broom It almost seemed like a knocking shop When the girls came out of their rooms And they all stood around And stared at me Two brunettes and a blonde Then the old brass shrugged and said We don’t know where she’s gone Later on I picked up the ball And I took off down the line I suppose by then I’d realised You’d run into hard times Oh laughs and jokes And drinks and smokes And no lights on the stairs We were young so young And always broke Not that we ever cared Not that we ever cared | | | | 3/8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Basil Key: A Minor Time: 6/8 with single 3/8 bars CAPO: No C/G..........................[332010] Dm/A.........................[x00231] FMaj7........................[133210] D9/F#........................[2x0210] Bm7b5........................[x2323x] | | | | % | | | % | My Saturday job pays six and six down A copy boy at the Chronicle Five cigarettes and two silver half crowns Meeting Vince at Mark Toney’s in town Boy do we get around Basil sits there on the table for subs But not a part of the Bri-nylon club Ancient blue sweater too old for the job Bored out of his mind With the Colins and Bobs I’m a jack and a lad And I’m up for the world And I’ve kissed a Gateshead girl He calls for a copy boy grumpy as hell Poets have to eat as well What he wouldn’t give just to walk out today To have time to think about time And young love thrown away I’m a jack and a lad And I’m up for the world And I’ve kissed a Gateshead girl Starlings swarming a cloud Over Grainger Street Over the black church Over the Black Gate And the shadowy Keep | | / | Bm7b5 | | | | % | | | | | % | He peers through his wire rims At the fish and chip words He’s supposed to dish up and forget His drudgery now has become slightly blurred By one of his Players untipped cigarettes Bury all joy Put the poems in sacks And bury me here with the hacks | | | % | | In the summer the fair Will stretch over the Moor Lovers will lie and make out in the park Basil puts on his old duffel and scarf And goes out into the dark | | | | | | | | % | | | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 3. River Towns Key: B Major Time: 4/4 CAPO: 4 Gadd9...................[320203] C/G.....................[332010] Em7.....................[020000] CMaj7/G.................[332000] | G Gadd9 | G | x4 | Gadd9 | / | Gadd9 | / | | Gadd9 | / | Gadd9 | | I came in three days early To meet my boat G Gadd9 It ain’t the life of Riley But it’s keeping me afloat It’s quiet over Christmas If you got no place to go G Gadd9 I got my home from river rats The only home I know I found myself a flophouse And I hit the streets at nine G Gadd9 Get some grub and drink a beer Maybe go down the line These chips will take your money Shake a young man down G Gadd9 It’s the same in every one of these Sorry river towns G Gadd9 River towns Sorry river towns River towns G Gadd9 River towns Sorry river towns G Gadd9 G River towns | Gadd9 | / | Gadd9 | / | | Gadd9 | / | Gadd9 | | G Gadd9 Well I picked me up a bottle To take back to the room G Gadd9 Then I saw a young girl standing In a doorway in the gloom G Gadd9 We’d hardly started talking The old scenario G Gadd9 And I just let her work me over Down by the Ohio G Gadd9 River towns Sorry river towns River towns G Gadd9 River towns Sorry river towns G Gadd9 G River towns | G Gadd9 | G | x4 | Gadd9 | / | Gadd9 | / | | Gadd9 | / | Gadd9 | | When I asked her if she’d like to stay She was down my stairs so quick I never asked what got her started With the sorry river tricks G Gadd9 So I get the bottle open But something’s hit a nerve G Gadd9 And I’m looking in the mirror At the face that I deserve G Gadd9 River towns Sorry river towns River towns G Gadd9 River towns Sorry river towns G Gadd9 G River towns | Gadd9 | / | Gadd9 | / | | Gadd9 | / | Gadd9 | | | | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Skydiver Key: C Major Time: 4/4 CAPO: No G7......................[32300x] G6......................[32200x] C/E.....................[xx2010] C/Bb....................[x1201x] F/A.....................[x03211] Fm6/Ab..................[4x353x] C6......................[x32210] B |-------|--------x-----0-----x-------|--------x-----------x-------|| G |-------|--------x--0--0-----x--0----|--------0--0--------x-------|| D |-------|--------3-----3-----3-------|--2-----2-----0-----x-------|| A |-------|--------2-----------2-------|--2-----x-----2-----x-------|| E |----3--|--3-------------------------|--3-----------------1b-x----|| i t ↑ i t ↑ i t ↑ i t ↑ | | | x8 I’ve been banned from every racecourse in the country There’s something about the unsure thing Like scoring with a beauty of the county It always makes the old bell ring I like to go for broke and I’ll be randy It’s got to be the unsure thing In the Bentley Continental with the brandy It always makes the old bell ring And when it’s gone all gone I’ll stand on a hilltop and sing I go where I want I do what I want And I don’t give a damn about a thing Sky.................................diver Today I lost a packet at Wincanton Dive Bomber in the 2.15 All on the nose and no-one counting Nothing wishy-washy in between Back when I made the pivotal decision To take a winding road that I could see It was just like being given an incredible permission The rules don’t apply to me And when it’s gone all gone I’ll stand on a hilltop and sing I go where I want I do what I want And I don’t give a damn about a thing Sky.................................diver I’m not being brave it’s my money not my life When I need to take a break from the brushes and the knife And I always took a fancy to the ones Heading straight into the teeth of the guns Sky.................................diver Sky.................................diver Sky...............................diver Sky...............................diver Sky...............................diver To fade-out. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Mighty Man Key: C Major Time: 6/8 CAPO: No C5.............[x3x01x] F/C............[x33211] Bb6............[x13333] Note: first part of the intro played in free time. | | | / | | / | | | / | | / | % | | | / | | % | | | / | | % | A room on the top floor And the chest all but knackered Two fingers not working And the back’s shot to hell It’s a lifetime of digging trenches In the cold and wet weather And for laying half the roadway In England as well You’d finish in the one place It was straight to the next one And you never could settle And you were always alone Just a drifter in limbo I was best off away son Just one of the thousands Who could never go home That’s your mighty man son Your mighty man Well the boat and the train ride In a misty November We had the worst of the lodgings And we hated the subs Ma’s face on the leaving I will always remember And we wouldn’t get paid Until they had closed up their pubs | | | | | | | | | | | | / | | | | | | % | And I could stand up on horseback Was the man for the singing Put my hand up for boxing At the fairground on the heath I could play my accordion And charm all of the women And dance round the taproom With a chair in my teeth That’s your mighty man son Your mighty man That’s your mighty man son Your mighty man | | | | | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Broken Bones Key: C Minor Time: 4/4 CAPO: 3 Am7.......................[x02213] | Am7 | x8 She likes a man with a broken nose Lucky for me I suppose Shots coming in like the monthly bills Soon they’ll be saying I’m over the hill Well the bell goes clang and you’re on your own You take your medicine and go home You take it like a man on the chin And you don’t make a fuss when the towel comes in Now let me go home got to lay in ice And I don’t want to hear no more advice Just give me my clothes Get me out of this place How many more stitches in my face? Those broken bones you pick ’em up and carry ’em Broken bones you carry ’em home Broken bones you pick ’em up and carry ’em Broken bones you carry ’em home | Am7 | x8 He had the punch lines I was the joke Every shot felt like something broke It was all much more than a man should stand And I finally went down to a big right hand Now let me go home got to lay in ice And I don’t want to hear no more advice Just give me my clothes Get me out of this place How many more stitches in my face? Those broken bones you pick ’em up and carry ’em Broken bones you carry ’em home Broken bones you pick ’em up and carry ’em Broken bones you carry ’em home Broken bones you pick ’em up and carry ’em Broken bones you carry ’em home Broken bones you pick ’em up and carry ’em Broken bones you carry ’em home | Am7 | x49 :) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Long Cool Girl Key: C Major Time: 2/4 CAPO: 5 G5.............[3x003x] D5/A...........[x0023x] D5/F#..........[2x023x] Cadd9/G........[33203x] Cadd9/E........[03203x] Please note: song starts on third bar of the intro. To play without capo (e.g. keys) hit transpose to +5. | | | | | x10 All I do is think of you As I go around the world All I do is think of you Long cool girl Long cool girl I like to say her name Long cool girl With a showgirl frame You took a look at me I took a look at you Now I just can’t see What a man’s supposed to do Long cool girl I like to say her name Long cool girl With a showgirl frame Me and you we’re 3 and 2 Something’s gonna happen now it has to Me and you we’re 3 and 2 Something’s gonna happen now it has to | | | | | x4 | | % | Pressure drop and weather change All around the world You got me at point blank range Long cool girl Long cool girl I like to say her name Long cool girl With a showgirl frame All I do is think of you As I go around the world All I do is think of you Long cool girl | | | | | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Lights of Taormina Key: B-flat Major Time: 4/4 CAPO: 3 C/G....................[332010] D/A....................[x00232] | G | x10 | | | | % | | | | | % | | | % | | / | | | | | % | There’s laughter in the darkness Music floating in across the bay He’s half listening and wondering How he could have let her slip away So long ago but still he wants to know If anyone has seen her And he’s sitting out in the night Looking down upon the lights of Taormina They were young and love was shining Like the colours of the rainbow Desire felt like choking Love was smoking under the volcano He can still taste her kisses Sweet as the red wine from Messina Now he’s sitting out in the night Looking down upon the lights of Taormina Seems like another lifetime When they rambled along the shore Seems like another lifetime She used to call him her sweet senor Maybe in another lifetime On a pathway to the sea Maybe there they’ll be The crowd calls for the emperor Raise their hands to hail another king But he’s been so long a wanderer Another crowd can never mean a thing He came he saw he conquered Ten thousand voices roared in the arena Now he’s sitting out in the night Looking down upon the lights of Taormina | | | | % | | | | | % | | | % | | / | | | | | % | He hears the chimes of history Myths of gods and men forever ringing Ancient dreams in all their mystery Wars for Sicily and Spartan women In the mists of antiquity Ships of war set sail from Carthagina Now he’s sitting out in the night Looking down upon the lights of Taormina Sitting out in the night Looking down upon the lights of Taormina | | / | | % | | | | | % | | | % | | / | | | | | % | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Silver Eagle Key: B-flat Major Time: 4/4 CAPO: 3 C/G.........................[332010] CMaj7/G.....................[332000] | | / | | / | | | % | It was so late and she’d be sleeping He came through her home town With the moonlight on the crossroads And the green light shining down And the bell at the railroad crossing And the horn from far away And his Silver Eagle passing Half a mile from where she lay | | / | / | / | | | / | | / | | | % | At his feet a sea of faces Make devotions with their love Clap their hands and plead their cases Call for blessings from above Like the rolling waves forever massing To crash and foam and creep away And the Silver Eagle passing Half a mile from where she lay | | / | / | / | | | / | / | / | | | / | | / | | | % | Road signs flow into the headlights Whisper names and fall behind He finds some honor in the darkness Hopes for grace and peace of mind And he thinks of how they’d lay together He’d run his fingers through her hair And he wonders if she’ll ever Come to know that he was there | | / | / | / | | | / | / | / | | | / | | / | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Beryl Key: Bb Major G Minor Time: 4/4 2/4 Intro sounds better using all but 1st string of the guitar. CAPO: 3 Cadd9..................[x3203x] Gadd9/B................[x2023x] CMaj7/G................[33200x] | Cadd9 | Gadd9/ | Cadd9 | | % | | Cadd9 | 2/4 / | / | % | | / | 2/4 | | % | | | % | % | % | Beryl was on another level When she got her Booker medal She was dead in her grave After all she gave After all she gave Beryl every time they’d overlook her When they gave her her Booker She was dead in her grave After all she gave After all she gave It’s all too late now It’s all too late now It’s too late you dabblers it’s all too late It’s too late you dabblers it’s all too late Beryl the tobacco overtook her When they gave her her Booker She was dead in her grave After all she gave After all she gave | | % | % | 2/4 | | | % | | % | | | % | It’s all too late now It’s all too late now It’s too late you dabblers it’s all too late It’s too late you dabblers it’s all too late Beryl was on another level When she got her Booker medal She was dead in her grave After all she gave After all she gave After all she gave After all she gave | | | | | % | | | 2/4 | | % | | / | 2/4 | | % | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 11. Wherever I Go Key: B Major Time: 4/4 To play without capo hit transpose button to +4 (not recommended buy a capo!). As it often happens with mainly piano songs chord voicings are quite varied. Some guitar chords are crucial though and played through the song identically. Basically you can always simplify fancy chords to first letter (.. Cadd9 to ). CAPO: 4 G5.....................[3x00xx] Cadd9..................[x32033] or simplify to C D5.....................[xx023x] or simplify to D Csus2..................[x30033] or simplify to C C/G....................[332010] D5/F#..................[2x023x] Dsus2..................[xx003x] | | G Cadd9 Maybe I’m bound to wander From one place to the next Heaven knows why G Cadd9 But in the wild blue yonder Your star is fixed in my sky Just another bar at a cross roads So far from home But that’s alright Whenever I’m going down a dark road I don’t feel the mood in the night There’s a place in my heart G Cadd9 Though we’re far apart May you always know? G Cadd9 No matter how long since I saw you I keep the flame there for you Wherever I go | Cadd9 | / | Csus2 | / | | Cadd9 | / | | | G/B Cadd9 They’re looking to close up in here Pulling down the blinds G/B Csus2 But they’ll let you stay a while And I’m going in a while G Cadd9 Now I’ve got leave you brother So this round’s mine G Csus2 Just looking at you Anyhow G Cadd9 You can go on and have another You wouldn’t call time G Cadd9 I’m going to say My goodbye’s now There’s a place in my heart G Cadd9 Though we’re far apart May you always know? G Cadd9 No matter how long since I saw you I keep the flame there for you Wherever I go | Cadd9 | / | Csus2 | / | | Cadd9 | / | / | Csus2 | | | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 12. .38 Special Key: A-flat Major Time: 4/4 TUNING: Dropped D CAPO: 1 G...................[55000x] Fadd9...............[33301x] D5..................[00023x] Dm/F................[3x023x] Csus4...............[x3301x] | | Fadd9 | | | x2 G Fadd9 The fate of a roving gambler Is waiting down the bloodthirsty highway G Fadd9 The highway is my home I’m a rambler And I have to pay the devil every day G Fadd9 G Now if I should owe a friend a million dollars He knows my guarantee is sound G Fadd9 If we should get hijacked by robbers There’d be no big money laying all around Csus4 C G I may be gone to the devil But I ain’t rollin’ over for you G Fadd9 If you’ve got a pistol in your pocket I’ve got my .38 Special too | | Fadd9 | | | x2 G Fadd9 Are you dancing for the payers of the piper? Are you jumping through your party hoops for them? G Fadd9 You won’t see any nine to fivers At the tables of my poker playing friends G Fadd9 So take your politician or your banker Take your friendly health insurance man G Fadd9 I never met a cold hearted gambler Could carry off a hustle like they can Csus4 C G I may be gone to the devil But I ain’t rollin’ over for you G Fadd9 If you’ve got a pistol in your pocket I’ve got my .38 Special too | | Fadd9 | | | | | Fadd9 | | | | | | | / | | | Fadd9 | | | | | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 13. My Heart Has Never Changed Key: G Major Time: 4/4 TUNING: Dropped C CAPO: No G..................[x0222x] Gsus4..............[x0223x] C..................[0x423x] Cadd9..............[0x4230] D5.................[2x240x] G/B................[x4222x] Em.................[4x4222] | G Gsus4 | x4 My car’s in for a brake job Be ready in a while Something about the waitress Cadd9 C G Made me think about your smile Gsus4 G I tip her a ten spot And I try to read her name I’m just an old long hauler G Gsus4 G Gsus4 A grinder at the game Heaven knows the highways Since we’ve been apart But my heart don’t feel like leaving Cadd9 C G Or you won’t leave my heart Gsus4 G Now and then I might take A little something for pain But there’s nothing much for heartache And my heart has never changed G Gsus4 G Gsus4 My heart has never changed | Gsus4 | / | | Cadd9 | | Gsus4 | / | Cadd9 | | | Gsus4 | | Gsus4 | / | Now there’s no more rough and tumble Down Highway 199 Nothing lasts forever I just miss it sometimes G Gsus4 G She comes to pour more coffee But it’s time to see more world I pick up my check and keys Cadd9 C And go and pay the girl G Gsus2 G My mind’s in Hell’s Half Acre And the rooms along Exchange And the scenes are always shifting But my heart has never changed G Gsus4 G Gsus4 My heart has never changed | G Gsus4 | | | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 14. Terminal of Tribute To Key: B Minor Time: 4/4 CAPO: 2 C/G...................[332010] D/A...................[x00232] A5....................[x022xx] E/G#..................[4x645x] Em/G..................[3x545x] D/F#..................[2x423x] Dm/F..................[1x323x] Gm/Bb.................[x1003x] or [6x878x] Dm/B .................[x2x231] Play intro outro & 1st verse with bass notes only. | | / | / / | / / | | / / | / / | / / | / / | | | On the road again in cabaret Grey hair and Fenders Old ghosts revisited today No original members Pick out a pretty one and toss your hair Seems foolish when you’re older You always felt you never had your share A chip on both your shoulders You’ve been faking it so long Now you don’t know right from wrong Or what the future has in store for you In the terminal of tribute to Every day you take the bitter pill The minibus driver says and you are who You never made it and you never will In the terminal of tribute to Where your plans are forever falling through And your dreams are movies never shot And you’re someone a shadow passing through Nobody ever knew So nobody forgot | / | / / | | / | | | / | | | | % | % | Your bag has fallen from the carousel They say one day it could come back to you Exactly when nobody can tell In the terminal of tribute to You’ve been faking it so long Now you don’t know right from wrong Or what the future has in store for you In the terminal of tribute to You’ve been faking it so long Now you don’t know right from wrong Or what the future has in store for you In the terminal of tribute to | / | / / | / | / | | | / | | | | / | / / | / / | | / / | / / | / / | / / | | | | / | / / | / | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 15. Heart of Oak Key: B-flat Major Time: 3/4 CAPO: 3 E |---3--2-|--0-----------0-------|----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|| B |---0----|--1--x--3-----1--3----|--0-----------0-------|-----------0----------|--------0-------------|| G |---0----|--0--x--0-----0-------|--0-----0--------0----|--------0-----2h-0----|--0--------0----------|| D |---2----|-----x----------------|--------2-----0-------|-----2--------0-------|-----0----------------|| A |--------|--3-----2-----3-------|----------------------|--3-------------------|----------------------|| E |--------|----------------------|--3-------------------|--------------2-------|--3-----------2-------|| And how he used to thrill the crowd The ready eye with bat and ball The village fighter heavy browed The Englishman who had it all A mighty shoulder to the wheel To join in battle with the best The iron arm the will of steel And heart of oak to mourn the rest | / | / | % / | | A power harnessed to the game Once yoked and tempered fades away The willing arm the steady aim The youth and fire that won the day As twilight shadows dim the field The ageing fighter stands bereft With just the will to never yield And heart of oak to mourn what’s left | / | / | % / | | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 16. Time Will End All Sorrow Key: C Major Time: 4/4 CAPO: 5 G........................[3xx00x] G/B......................[x2x03x] C........................[x3xx10] CMaj7/G..................[332000] D/F#.....................[2x023x] Em7......................[0x003x] B7/F#....................[2x120x] | / | / | % | % / | | / | / | % / | % / | The campfires have been lit along the river You wouldn’t know of trouble anywhere Someone is playing a concertina Some old familiar air It takes me back into another lifetime Before we ever fought in fields of mud Where lives like autumn leaves are tossed and scattered And lost in the swirling flood But how a song can heal a weary heart And bring you closer to me where I lie A song can heal a weary heart Time will end all sorrow by and by The moon is laying soft upon the water Smoke comes drifting gently from the hill They tell us that this war will soon be over Maybe in another lifetime it will But how a song can heal a weary heart And bring you closer to me where I lie A song can heal a weary heart Time will end all sorrow by and by Time will end all sorrow by and by | | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 17. Oklahoma Ponies Key: D Major G Major Time: 2/4 CAPO: 2 C5...................[x3x01x] G5...................[3x003x] G5/C.................[x3003x] Gsus4................[3x001x] | | | | / | / | | x8 We’re a badass band From the kick ass south Pizza goin’ down the sofa A rockin’ little band Got a record out And buddy it’s a hit all over We’re a badass band From the kick ass south C Gsus4 Cornchips in the shagpile We’re a’ gonna punch One another in the mouth They’re giving us a brand new hairstyle Get on down turn ’em all around Kick ’em in the old cojones Gotta get on down turn ’em all around We’re the Oklahoma Ponies Get on down turn ’em all around Kick ’em in the old cojones Gotta get on down turn ’em all around ’Cos we’re the Oklahoma Ponies Now the badass boys They’re a’ gonna wanna fight Like they do in Oklahoma They got a killer girl To dress us right And buddy do I wanna bone her We’re a badass band From the kick ass south Pizza going down the sofa A rockin’ little band With a record out And buddy it’s a hit all over Get on down turn ’em all around Kick ’em in the old cojones Gotta get on down turn ’em all around We’re the Oklahoma Ponies Get on down turn ’em all around Kick’em in the old cojones Gotta get on down turn ’em all around ’Cos we’re the Oklahoma Ponies | / | | / | / | | / | | / | / | | | ___________________________________________________________________________________ 18. Hot Dog Key: C Modal Time: 4/4 CAPO: No C5.................[x355xx] F5.................[133xxx] Bb5................[x133xx] | C5 | x8 I’m coming off your cooking I’m coming off my food I’m staring down this hot dog And I’m in a fighting mood Hot dog it’s either your or me I guess the hot dog blues Got a hold on me Well I drink my coffee leaded ’Til I’m good to go They tell me it ain’t good for me Maybe so Hot dog it’s either you or me I guess the hot dog blues Got a hold on me | | % | % | % | | | % | | % | | | | | % | Well you’re gonna give me trouble I’m gonna stick around Ain’t no hot dog Gonna run me out of town Hot Dog it’s either you or me I guess the hot dog blues Got a hold on me | |
