Mark Knopfler — Basil
Key: A Minor Time: 6/8 CAPO: No 332010 C/G.......................... x00231 Dm/A......................... 133210 FMaj7........................ 2x221x F#m7b5....................... x2323x Bm7b5........................ x05533 Am7add11..................... | 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/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/E E7 Over the Black Gate (Am) And the shadowy Keep | Am | F#m7b5 | 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 | (Am7add11) | % | % | (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 Basil puts on his old duffel and scarf F And goes out into the dark | C | FMaj7 | C | FMaj7 | | C | F | % | | F |
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