Chords for Mark Knopfler at CBS NEWS September 22, 2019, 10:16 AM
Tempo:
114.35 bpm
Chords used:
A
E
G
Gb
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[B]
[A] [E] Walk
[A] of Life was a 1985 [Gb] hit for Mark Knopfler and his band Dire Straits.
These days Knopfler is winding up an American tour and talking to Anthony Mason for the record.
[Bb]
[Eb] Down a London back street, an anonymous rider glides unnoticed, slipping discreetly past
a [Gm] garage door.
[Ab] The giveaway is the guitar etched into the motorcycle's gas cap.
[Eb] The rider is Mark Knopfler [Ab] and this is where he makes his music.
[Cm]
His latest album, Down the Road Wherever, was recorded here in the state of the art
Dream Studio he built more than a decade ago.
[C] Did this come out of Abbey Road?
It will have [Cm] done, originally.
You don't really have to make music anymore.
[Gb] I do, I'm afraid it's a bit of an obsession.
[G]
A life long obsession for [Bm] Knopfler, who grew up in Glasgow, Scotland [Gb] and then Newcastle,
England before moving [Bm] to London to form a band called Dire [B]
Straits.
[Gbm] You have such a distinctive guitar style.
I have a style which is probably [G] all wrong.
It would be a guitar [Bb] teacher's nightmare.
I hold a guitar like a [C] plumber holds a hammer.
[Gm]
Musician wasn't Knopfler's first job.
You had [Cm] a brief career [Bb] in journalism.
It was a good thing for a kid to do.
I was a cub reporter.
Did you like being a reporter?
I did, a lot of it.
I could do it, but I don't think I was tough enough for it.
But it shaped his talent as a storyteller and all those songs he had in his head.
There's a junkyard in there.
[F] The songs just kept pushing [Dm] and pushing.
What were they pushing for?
I guess I had just [C] to come out.
Put your salt [Bb] in.
[C] Put your salt in.
Don't [Dm]
[Am] swing.
[F] Like Sultans of Swing, [Am] which put Dire Straits on the map [Dm] in 1978, [Bb] music kept pouring [C] out of Knopfler.
[D] So much that he gave some songs away, like [Em] Private Dancer.
[D]
I just sent [Em] it over.
And that's [E] how the thing with Tina [C] started.
I'm your [G] private dancer, my dancer for money.
[Em] Do what you want me [D] to do.
Tina Turner would turn it into a huge hit.
Tina [C] injected a whole lot [Gb] of power and [A] stuff into it.
[Gm]
[G] [G] Dire [F] Straits' biggest album, Brothers in [G] Arms, released in 1985, would sell more than 30 million copies.
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it.
Money for nothing, it just breathes.
[E] But just as the band was launched into [A] the stratosphere,
So [Db] far away from me.
[B] Knopfler suddenly [A] dissolved.
You walked away, essentially, at the peak.
Well, it seemed to me that [G] was the only intelligent thing to do.
It got so big that we had three stages that were leapfrogging around in front of each other.
And you'd walk into catering and see some guys you just didn't know.
And I didn't like that.
I didn't want to be that.
I didn't [Gb] want it to be that size.
You didn't mind the success, but you didn't like the fame, is that fair to say?
Well, I can't think of anything good about fame.
Can you?
Restaurant [A] reservations?
Last year, Dire Straits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Knopfler did not show up for the ceremony.
You need [E] to do the walk.
[B] Do the walk [A] all night.
The 70-year [E]-old singer may have turned his back on celebrity, but not on the [A] music.
And you still enjoy playing those songs?
I still enjoy playing the songs.
If you've written them and they have that effect on people, [B] it's very important.
And to play them well.
[Gb] You do not deserve [Abm] the [E] love that's [Gb] in our hands.
His [Abm] latest American tour will have its finale at Madison Square Garden [Dbm] this week.
Mark [B] Knopfler plays on.
Still a brother in arms, [G] but with a different band.
They can all play better than I can, but they [Dm] let me get away with stuff because I'm [D] the guy who wrote the song.
You're very happy with these guys.
Yeah, I really am.
I think that's why [E] people find themselves [Fm] going bananas [D] when they listen to it.
Most of your people go bananas.
[Dm] Bananas is good.
[E] [N]
[A] [E] Walk
[A] of Life was a 1985 [Gb] hit for Mark Knopfler and his band Dire Straits.
These days Knopfler is winding up an American tour and talking to Anthony Mason for the record.
[Bb]
[Eb] Down a London back street, an anonymous rider glides unnoticed, slipping discreetly past
a [Gm] garage door.
[Ab] The giveaway is the guitar etched into the motorcycle's gas cap.
[Eb] The rider is Mark Knopfler [Ab] and this is where he makes his music.
[Cm]
His latest album, Down the Road Wherever, was recorded here in the state of the art
Dream Studio he built more than a decade ago.
[C] Did this come out of Abbey Road?
It will have [Cm] done, originally.
You don't really have to make music anymore.
[Gb] I do, I'm afraid it's a bit of an obsession.
[G]
A life long obsession for [Bm] Knopfler, who grew up in Glasgow, Scotland [Gb] and then Newcastle,
England before moving [Bm] to London to form a band called Dire [B]
Straits.
[Gbm] You have such a distinctive guitar style.
I have a style which is probably [G] all wrong.
It would be a guitar [Bb] teacher's nightmare.
I hold a guitar like a [C] plumber holds a hammer.
[Gm]
Musician wasn't Knopfler's first job.
You had [Cm] a brief career [Bb] in journalism.
It was a good thing for a kid to do.
I was a cub reporter.
Did you like being a reporter?
I did, a lot of it.
I could do it, but I don't think I was tough enough for it.
But it shaped his talent as a storyteller and all those songs he had in his head.
There's a junkyard in there.
[F] The songs just kept pushing [Dm] and pushing.
What were they pushing for?
I guess I had just [C] to come out.
Put your salt [Bb] in.
[C] Put your salt in.
Don't [Dm]
[Am] swing.
[F] Like Sultans of Swing, [Am] which put Dire Straits on the map [Dm] in 1978, [Bb] music kept pouring [C] out of Knopfler.
[D] So much that he gave some songs away, like [Em] Private Dancer.
[D]
I just sent [Em] it over.
And that's [E] how the thing with Tina [C] started.
I'm your [G] private dancer, my dancer for money.
[Em] Do what you want me [D] to do.
Tina Turner would turn it into a huge hit.
Tina [C] injected a whole lot [Gb] of power and [A] stuff into it.
[Gm]
[G] [G] Dire [F] Straits' biggest album, Brothers in [G] Arms, released in 1985, would sell more than 30 million copies.
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it.
Money for nothing, it just breathes.
[E] But just as the band was launched into [A] the stratosphere,
So [Db] far away from me.
[B] Knopfler suddenly [A] dissolved.
You walked away, essentially, at the peak.
Well, it seemed to me that [G] was the only intelligent thing to do.
It got so big that we had three stages that were leapfrogging around in front of each other.
And you'd walk into catering and see some guys you just didn't know.
And I didn't like that.
I didn't want to be that.
I didn't [Gb] want it to be that size.
You didn't mind the success, but you didn't like the fame, is that fair to say?
Well, I can't think of anything good about fame.
Can you?
Restaurant [A] reservations?
Last year, Dire Straits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Knopfler did not show up for the ceremony.
You need [E] to do the walk.
[B] Do the walk [A] all night.
The 70-year [E]-old singer may have turned his back on celebrity, but not on the [A] music.
And you still enjoy playing those songs?
I still enjoy playing the songs.
If you've written them and they have that effect on people, [B] it's very important.
And to play them well.
[Gb] You do not deserve [Abm] the [E] love that's [Gb] in our hands.
His [Abm] latest American tour will have its finale at Madison Square Garden [Dbm] this week.
Mark [B] Knopfler plays on.
Still a brother in arms, [G] but with a different band.
They can all play better than I can, but they [Dm] let me get away with stuff because I'm [D] the guy who wrote the song.
You're very happy with these guys.
Yeah, I really am.
I think that's why [E] people find themselves [Fm] going bananas [D] when they listen to it.
Most of your people go bananas.
[Dm] Bananas is good.
[E] [N]
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [E] _ Walk _ _
_ _ _ [A] of Life was a 1985 [Gb] hit for Mark Knopfler and his band Dire Straits.
These days Knopfler is winding up an American tour and talking to Anthony Mason for the record.
_ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Eb] Down a London back street, an anonymous rider glides unnoticed, slipping discreetly past
a [Gm] garage door. _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ The giveaway is the guitar etched into the motorcycle's gas cap.
[Eb] The rider is Mark Knopfler [Ab] and this is where he makes his music.
[Cm] _
His latest album, Down the Road Wherever, was recorded here in the state of the art
Dream Studio he built more than a decade ago. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] Did this come out of Abbey Road?
It will have [Cm] done, originally. _ _ _ _
You don't really have to make music anymore. _ _
[Gb] I do, I'm afraid it's a bit of an obsession.
[G] _ _
_ A life long obsession for [Bm] Knopfler, who grew up in Glasgow, Scotland [Gb] and then Newcastle,
England before moving [Bm] to London to form a band called Dire [B]
Straits.
_ [Gbm] _ _ You have such a distinctive guitar style.
I have a style which is probably [G] all wrong.
It would be a guitar [Bb] teacher's nightmare.
I hold a guitar like a [C] plumber holds a hammer.
_ [Gm]
Musician wasn't Knopfler's first job.
You had [Cm] a brief career [Bb] in journalism.
It was a good thing for a kid to do.
I was a cub reporter.
Did you like being a reporter?
I did, a lot of it.
I could do it, but I don't think I was tough enough for it.
But it shaped his talent as a storyteller and all those songs he had in his head.
There's a junkyard in there.
[F] The songs just kept pushing [Dm] and pushing.
What were they pushing for?
I guess I had just [C] to come out.
Put your salt [Bb] in.
_ _ [C] Put your salt in.
Don't [Dm]
[Am] swing.
_ [F] Like Sultans of Swing, [Am] which put Dire Straits on the map [Dm] in 1978, _ [Bb] music kept pouring [C] out of Knopfler.
[D] So much that he gave some songs away, like [Em] Private Dancer.
_ _ [D] _
_ I just sent [Em] it over.
And that's [E] how the thing with Tina [C] started.
I'm your [G] private dancer, my dancer for money.
[Em] Do what you want me [D] to do.
Tina Turner would turn it into a huge hit.
Tina [C] injected a whole lot [Gb] of power and [A] stuff into it.
[Gm] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [G] Dire [F] Straits' biggest album, Brothers in [G] Arms, released in 1985, would sell more than 30 million copies.
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it.
Money for nothing, it just breathes.
[E] But just as the band was launched into [A] the stratosphere,
So [Db] far away from me. _
[B] Knopfler suddenly [A] dissolved.
You walked away, essentially, at the peak.
Well, it seemed to me that [G] was the only intelligent _ _ thing to do.
It got so big that we had three stages that were leapfrogging around in front of each other.
And you'd walk into catering and see some guys you just didn't know.
And I didn't like that.
I didn't want to be that. _
_ I didn't [Gb] want it to be that size.
You didn't mind the success, but you didn't like the fame, is that fair to say?
Well, I can't think of anything good about fame.
Can you? _ _
_ Restaurant [A] reservations? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Last year, Dire Straits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
_ Knopfler did not show up for the ceremony.
You need [E] to do the walk.
[B] _ Do the walk [A] all night.
The 70-year [E]-old singer may have turned his back on celebrity, but not on the [A] music.
And you still enjoy playing those songs?
I still enjoy playing the songs.
If you've written them and they have that effect on people, [B] it's very important.
And to play them well.
[Gb] You do not deserve [Abm] the [E] love that's [Gb] in our hands.
_ His [Abm] latest American tour will have its finale at Madison Square Garden [Dbm] this week.
Mark [B] Knopfler plays on.
Still a brother in arms, [G] but with a different band.
They can all play better than I can, but they [Dm] let me get away with stuff because I'm [D] the guy who wrote the song.
_ You're very happy with these guys.
Yeah, I really am.
I think that's why [E] people find themselves [Fm] going bananas [D] when they listen to it.
Most of your people go bananas.
[Dm] Bananas is good.
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
[A] _ _ _ [E] _ Walk _ _
_ _ _ [A] of Life was a 1985 [Gb] hit for Mark Knopfler and his band Dire Straits.
These days Knopfler is winding up an American tour and talking to Anthony Mason for the record.
_ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Eb] Down a London back street, an anonymous rider glides unnoticed, slipping discreetly past
a [Gm] garage door. _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ The giveaway is the guitar etched into the motorcycle's gas cap.
[Eb] The rider is Mark Knopfler [Ab] and this is where he makes his music.
[Cm] _
His latest album, Down the Road Wherever, was recorded here in the state of the art
Dream Studio he built more than a decade ago. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] Did this come out of Abbey Road?
It will have [Cm] done, originally. _ _ _ _
You don't really have to make music anymore. _ _
[Gb] I do, I'm afraid it's a bit of an obsession.
[G] _ _
_ A life long obsession for [Bm] Knopfler, who grew up in Glasgow, Scotland [Gb] and then Newcastle,
England before moving [Bm] to London to form a band called Dire [B]
Straits.
_ [Gbm] _ _ You have such a distinctive guitar style.
I have a style which is probably [G] all wrong.
It would be a guitar [Bb] teacher's nightmare.
I hold a guitar like a [C] plumber holds a hammer.
_ [Gm]
Musician wasn't Knopfler's first job.
You had [Cm] a brief career [Bb] in journalism.
It was a good thing for a kid to do.
I was a cub reporter.
Did you like being a reporter?
I did, a lot of it.
I could do it, but I don't think I was tough enough for it.
But it shaped his talent as a storyteller and all those songs he had in his head.
There's a junkyard in there.
[F] The songs just kept pushing [Dm] and pushing.
What were they pushing for?
I guess I had just [C] to come out.
Put your salt [Bb] in.
_ _ [C] Put your salt in.
Don't [Dm]
[Am] swing.
_ [F] Like Sultans of Swing, [Am] which put Dire Straits on the map [Dm] in 1978, _ [Bb] music kept pouring [C] out of Knopfler.
[D] So much that he gave some songs away, like [Em] Private Dancer.
_ _ [D] _
_ I just sent [Em] it over.
And that's [E] how the thing with Tina [C] started.
I'm your [G] private dancer, my dancer for money.
[Em] Do what you want me [D] to do.
Tina Turner would turn it into a huge hit.
Tina [C] injected a whole lot [Gb] of power and [A] stuff into it.
[Gm] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [G] Dire [F] Straits' biggest album, Brothers in [G] Arms, released in 1985, would sell more than 30 million copies.
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it.
Money for nothing, it just breathes.
[E] But just as the band was launched into [A] the stratosphere,
So [Db] far away from me. _
[B] Knopfler suddenly [A] dissolved.
You walked away, essentially, at the peak.
Well, it seemed to me that [G] was the only intelligent _ _ thing to do.
It got so big that we had three stages that were leapfrogging around in front of each other.
And you'd walk into catering and see some guys you just didn't know.
And I didn't like that.
I didn't want to be that. _
_ I didn't [Gb] want it to be that size.
You didn't mind the success, but you didn't like the fame, is that fair to say?
Well, I can't think of anything good about fame.
Can you? _ _
_ Restaurant [A] reservations? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Last year, Dire Straits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
_ Knopfler did not show up for the ceremony.
You need [E] to do the walk.
[B] _ Do the walk [A] all night.
The 70-year [E]-old singer may have turned his back on celebrity, but not on the [A] music.
And you still enjoy playing those songs?
I still enjoy playing the songs.
If you've written them and they have that effect on people, [B] it's very important.
And to play them well.
[Gb] You do not deserve [Abm] the [E] love that's [Gb] in our hands.
_ His [Abm] latest American tour will have its finale at Madison Square Garden [Dbm] this week.
Mark [B] Knopfler plays on.
Still a brother in arms, [G] but with a different band.
They can all play better than I can, but they [Dm] let me get away with stuff because I'm [D] the guy who wrote the song.
_ You're very happy with these guys.
Yeah, I really am.
I think that's why [E] people find themselves [Fm] going bananas [D] when they listen to it.
Most of your people go bananas.
[Dm] Bananas is good.
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _