Dire Straits - Single Handed Sailor 1 Tabs

Single-Handed Sailor (Dire Straits)
from the album 'Communique'

Intro:  Dm / C : G   (2 times)


Dm           C                Bb        F
 Two in the morning          bright uptown
(          Two in the morning dry-dock town)
Dm              C                 Bb - F
 The river run away in the night
(The river rolled away in the night)
Dm           C             Bb        F
 Little Gypsy mare she's all tied down
(Little _Gypsy Moth_ she's all tied down)
(Little gypsy mom she's all tied down)
Dm               C                      Bb - F
 She put her in the wind and the light
(She quiver in the wind down the light)


(Same chords as above)

 Yeah, the sailing ship is just held down in chains
(Yeah, the sailing ship is just a-held down in chains)
(The sailing ship is just held with chains)
 From the lazy days of sailing
(From the lazy days of sail)
 She's just lying there silent in pain
(She's just lying there, silent pain)
 You lean on the tourist rail

Am                              Dm              Dm-C-Bb
 A mother and her baby in the college of war
(A mother and her baby and the College of war)
                   C
 In the concrete grave
(And the concrete grave)
Dm                  C                 Bb         F
 You never want to fight against the river law
Gm                  Bb
 Nobody rules the waves

              C             A7           Dm
 Yeah, on a night when the lazy wind is wailing
Bb                   C
 Around the cutting saw
(Around the _Cutty Sark_)
   Dm            C     Bb      F
 Single-handed sailor go sailing
Gm                          Bb
 Singing away in the dark
(Sailing away in the dark)

(Guitar:  Dm / C : G)
 He's up on the bridge on the self-say night
(He's up on the bridge on the self-same night)
 A mariner of dried-up land
(A mariner of dry-dock land)
 Two in the morning, well there's one green light
 And the man on the barge is sad
(And the man on the barge is sayin')

 She's gonna step away below him
('She's a-gonna slip away below him)
 Away from things he's done
 But he just shouts, "Hey man whatcha call this thing?"
 She could say, "Pride of London"
(Could say, 'Pride of London')

 On a night when the lazy wind is wailing
 Around the cutting saw
(Around the _Cutty Sark_)
 Yeah, single-handed sailor go sailing
 Singing away in the dark
(Sailing away in the dark)

For the intro: I tried to play the long note as a slide note. I have to say
that it sounds much better.

Tab notation followed:-----------------
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
12<10   : pull off

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----10>12------------------
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-----------10------13^15.--15vv-
----10>12-----------------------
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-----------10------13vv----
----10>12------------------
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-----------10------13^(15)-
----10>12------10----------
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-----------10------13^(15)--------(15)^13-------------------------------
----10>12------10--------------------------10>13<13---------------------
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