Bad Day For A Knife Thrower chords by Mark Knopfler

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:

Em E Em E
Em E Em E
Bm


🎸 Verse 1:
Bm
Rain’s like thunder on the canvas
                A#
It’s been coming down hard all day
        Fm
You’ll get the wea ther
    E
And the people all staying away
    Bm
On the old showground

On the edge of town
    A#
And the wind buffeting the van
     Fm
Well, whatever
 E
I still don’t have a plan


🎸 Chorus:
A#m7         A#
  Tried to call you once or twice
E
 Drawing a blank
Bm       A#
 That thing we talked about
 E        A#m
I need to see it in the bank
E             E
Sitting like a dud in the fairground mud
A#m      E
Everything is slower
      F#   E
It’s been a bad day
   Bb  E
For a knife thrower


🎸 Instrumental:
Bm A# Fm E Bm
Bm Gm Bm Gm
Bm A# Fm E Bm
Bm Gm Bm


🎸 Verse 2:
     Bm
It was a pound a round in ‘64
             A#
With all us kids to feed
       Fm
They stuck together
    E
For whatever it was we’d need
Gm
Truth is he was flying
    A#
On one enginе all the time
      Fm
Out on the racеcourse
     E
He knew a bookie in disorganised crime


🎸 Chorus:
    A#m7        A#
When he couldn’t pick up a payday
E
 Or anything else
   Bm
He’d have to come through
    A#
With a tenner or two
E         A#m
Have a little bet against himself
E             E
Sitting like a dud in the fairground mud
A#m        E
Feel I’m sinking lower
      F#   E
It’s been a bad day
   Bb  E
For a knife thrower


🎸 Instrumental:
Bm A# Fm E
Bm A# Fm A#m


🎸 Outro:
E             E
Sitting like a dud in the fairground mud
A#m        E
Feel I’m sinking lower
      F#   E
It’s been a bad day
   Bb  E
For a knife thrower


Bm A# Fm E Bm
Bm Gm Bm Gm
Bm A# Fm E Bm
Bm Gm Bm
Bm A# Fm E Bm
Bm Gm Bm Gm
Bm A# Fm E Bm
Bm Gm Bm
Bm A# Fm E Bm
Bm Gm Bm Gm