Basil chords by Mark Knopfler

Chords with lyrics

Basil by Mark Knopfler from Tracker album

Key: A augmentedA Minor
Time: 6/8 with single 3/8 bars


CAPO: No


C/G..........................[332010]
Dm/A.........................[x00231]
FMaj7........................[133210]

D9/F#........................[2x0210]
Bm7b5........................[x2323x]

| C majorC | E7E7 | A minorAm | % |
| A minorAm | % |


      (A minorAm)   C/GC/G     FF  Dm/A
My Saturday job pays six and six down
           FF
A augmentedA copy boy at the Chronicle
     A minorAm       C/GC/G     FF   Dm/A
Five cigarettes and two silver half crowns
            FF        Dm/A
Meeting Vince at Mark Toney?s in town
     FF      A minorAm
Boy, do we get around


      (A minorAm)     C/GC/G    FF  DmDm
Basil sits there on the table for subs
            FF
But not a part of the Bri-nylon club
        A minorAm     C/GC/G     FF
Ancient blue sweater, too old for the job
   DmDm
Bored out of his mind
     FF
With the Colins and Bobs


         C/GC/G FMaj7
I?m a jack and a lad
          C majorC   FMaj7
And I?m up for the world
          C majorC     FF  A minorAm
And I?ve kissed a Gateshead girl

  (A minorAm)          C/GC/G   FF  DmDm
He calls for a copy boy, grumpy as hell
       FF
Poets have to eat as well
         A minorAm      C majorC     FF  DmDm
What he wouldn?t give just to walk out today
         FF        DmDm
To have time to think about time
         FF
And young love thrown away


         C majorC  FMaj7
I?m a jack and a lad
          C majorC   FMaj7
And I?m up for the world
          C majorC     FF
And I?ve kissed a Gateshead girl


 FF          C majorC  E7E7
Starlings swarming a cloud
    A minorAm
Over Grainger Street
      FF
Over the black church
DmDm     C majorC     E7E7
Over the Black Gate
        (A minorAm)
And the shadowy Keep


| A minorAm | D9/F# | Bm7b5 Bm7b5 | E7E7 |
| FF | % | C majorC | E7E7 |
| A minorAm | % |


           (A minorAm)
He peers through his wire rims
    C/GC/G      FF   DmDm
At the fish and chip words
           FF
He?s supposed to dish up and forget
       A minorAm      C majorC      FF
His drudgery now has become slightly blurred
  DmDm             FF
By one of his Players untipped cigarettes


     C majorC  FMaj7
Bury all joy
         C majorC   FMaj7
Put the poems in sacks
       C majorC       FF
And bury me here with the hacks


| A minorAm | Am7Am7 | % | A minorAm |


         (A minorAm)
In the summer the fair
       C/GC/G    FF
Will stretch over the Moor
 Dm/A          FF
Lovers will lie and make out in the park
      A minorAm     C/GC/G     FF  Dm/A
Basil puts on his old duffel and scarf
        FF
And goes out into the dark


| C majorC | FMaj7 | C majorC | FMaj7 |
| C majorC | FF | % |