Nobodys Child chords by Mark Knopfler

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: C minorCm

Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard
Capo: 1st fret


| Terz Guitar | x6

| B minorBm | x4

      E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA
The ragged kid
        B minorBm Bm/F#
Nobody wanted
    C majorC  Am7Am7
Left alone
  D MajorD  G+G E MajorE
To ramble wild
    E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA
Long ago
     B minorBm    Bm/F#
He was abandoned
      B minorBm  Bm/F# B minorBm Bm/F#
Nobody’s child

    E minor 7Em7  A augmentedA
Never smiles
      B minorBm   Bm/F#
And never chatters
    C majorC    Am7Am7
Never quarrels
D MajorD  G+G  E MajorE
Or complains
     E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA
Grown as hard
     B minorBm   Bm/F#
As the Sierras
         B minorBm  Bm/F#
And the Western Plains


    B minorBm  Bm/F#  Bm/ABm/A B minorBm Bm/F#
Come a’cow cow yicky yicky yea
    B minorBm  Bm/F#  Bm/ABm/A B minorBm Bm/F#
Come a’cow cow yicky yicky yea

       E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA
Learned to swing
     B minorBm   Bm/F#
A augmentedA broken bottle
      C majorC  Am7Am7
Learned to use
   D MajorD  G+G   E MajorE
His fists and knife
    E minor 7Em7    A augmentedA
In the bar rooms
    B minorBm   Bm/F#
And bordellos
    B minorBm  Bm/F# B minorBm Bm/F#
Of his life


      D/AD/A E minor 7Em7
He drifted down
       A augmentedA    Asus4Asus4 A augmentedA
Towards the borders
       D/AD/A E minor 7Em7
The sky was dark
        A augmentedA
But it did not rain
     E minor 7Em7   A augmentedA
Came the meanest
   B minorBm  Bm/F#
Pistoleros
         B minorBm  Bm/F# B minorBm Bm/F#
In the Western Plains


| E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA | B minorBm | C majorC Am7Am7 |
| D MajorD G+G E MajorE | E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA |

| B minorBm Bm/F# | x3


    E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA
He fell in
         B minorBm   Bm/F#
With these desperadoes
       C majorC    Am7Am7
Thieves and killers
D MajorD  G+G E MajorE
Every one
    E minor 7Em7   A augmentedA
Prizes hanging
      B minorBm   Bm/F#
From their saddles
      B minorBm  Bm/F#
With their guns


    B minorBm  Bm/F#  Bm/ABm/A B minorBm Bm/F#
Come a’cow cow yicky yicky yea
    B minorBm  Bm/F#  Bm/ABm/A B minorBm Bm/F#
Come a’cow cow yicky yicky yea


| B minorBm |


      E minorEm A augmentedA
The ragged kid
    B minorBm
Nobody wanted
    C/GC/G A minorAm
Left alone
  D/AD/A G+G E MajorE
To ramble wild
    E minorEm  A augmentedA
Now he rides
      B minorBm  Bm/F#
Beside the Devil
      B minorBm  Bm/F#
Nobody’s child


    B minorBm  Bm/F#  Bm/ABm/A B minorBm Bm/F#
Come a’cow cow yicky yicky yea
    B minorBm  Bm/F#  Bm/ABm/A B minorBm Bm/F#
Come a’cow cow yicky yicky yea

| B minorBm Bm/F# | B minorBm Bm/F# |

| B minorBm |