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