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Single Handed Sailor tab by Dire Straits

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	SINGLE HANDED SAILOR			Contributed by:
	       by 				Alessandro Borille
						(paride@arianna.dei.unipd.it)
	dIRE sTRAITS				& Urban J deSouza
						(ujd@ecl.psu.edu)
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Key: Dm
🎸
Accuracy Rating: - Votes: -
[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---------------------------
		   Dm
---------------10---------------
-----------10------13^15.--15vv-
----10>12-----------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
		   C
---------------10----------
-----------10------13vv----
----10>12------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
		   G
---------------------------
-----------10------13^(15)-
----10>12------10----------
---------------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
(repeating ...)
		   Dm
---------------10----------
-----------10------13^15vv-
----10>12------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
		   Dm
---------------10---------------
-----------10------13^15.--15vv-
----10>12-----------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
		   C
---------------10----------
-----------10------13vv----
----10>12------------------
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                    G        |--> a fill  (this appears in 2 types: 2nd)
------------------------------15----------------------------------------
-----------10------13^(15)--------(15)^13-------------------------------
----10>12------10--------------------------10>13The river rolled away ...Dm                  C             Bb      F
>Little _Gypsy Moth_ she's ..
Dm                  C             Bb - F
>She put her in the wind ...
>

Verse 2
>Yeah, the sailing ship is ...
>

Chorus 1
Am                             Dm             Dm-C-Bb
>A mother and her baby and ...
                     C
>And the ...
Dm                 C                 Bb         F
>You never want to fight ...
Gm                       Bb
>Nobody rules ...

>            C              A7           Dm
>Yeah, on a night when the lazy ...
Bb                    C
>Around the _....
 Dm            C         Bb        F
>Single-handed ...
Gm                        Bb
>Sailing away in ...

Guitar intro solo:  Dm / C : G   (twice over)

Verse 3
>He's up on the bridge on ...
>
Chorus 2
>'She's a-gonna slip away ....
>
>On a night when the ....
>
Final solo:

Repeat intro solo and then:

	         Dm			  Dm
|E------------------------|-----------------------|-
|B--151515^18vv---|--151515^18vv--|-
|G------------------------|-----------------------|-
|D------------------------|-----------------------|-
|A------------------------|-----------------------|-
|E------------------------|-----------------------|-

		 C			  G
------------------------|---------------------------
--151515^17vv---|-----13>1515^18.-18vv--
------------------------|--14-----------------------
------------------------|---------------------------
------------------------|---------------------------
------------------------|---------------------------

					________ ________ ________ ________
		    Dm			|   3  | |   3  | |   3  | |   3  |
--------------------------|-------------------------------------------------
--18^(20)--18

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