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Basil Chords by Mark Knopfler

Basil chords by Mark Knopfler

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Basil by Mark Knopfler from Tracker album

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


CAPO: No


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

D9/F#........................[2x0210]
Bm7b5........................[x2323x]
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| C | E7 | Am | % |
| Am | % |


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


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


         C/G FMaj7
I'm a jack and a lad
          C   FMaj7
And I'm up for the world
          C     F  Am
And I've kissed a Gateshead girl



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


         C  FMaj7
I'm a jack and a lad
          C   FMaj7
And I'm up for the world
          C     F
And I've kissed a Gateshead girl


 F          C  E7
Starlings swarming a cloud
    Am
Over Grainger Street
      F
Over the black church
Dm     C     E7
Over the Black Gate
        (Am)
And the shadowy Keep


| Am | D9/F# | Bm7b5 | E7 |
| F | % | C | E7 |
| Am | % |


           (Am)
He peers through his wire rims
    C/G      F   Dm
At the fish and chip words
           F
He's supposed to dish up and forget
       Am      C      F
His drudgery now has become slightly blurred
  Dm             F
By one of his Players untipped cigarettes


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


| Am | Am7 | % | Am |


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


| C | FMaj7 | C | FMaj7 |
| C | F | % |

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