Chords for Mark Knopfler - Tracker - A Film By Henrik Hansen

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[Bm] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] I am.
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ My _ _ [F] _ position as a songwriter is [C] just to try to make a good recording of a [F] good song. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ There's so many songs I'll never get around to _ [Db] recording.
Five [Am] cigarettes [Em] and two [F] silver half [A] crowns.
Three _ decibelisation. _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] I'm a Jack [C] and a lad.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ And I'm_
_ _ _ I'm a Jack [C] and a lad.
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And I'm up [C] for the _ world. _
[F] _ _ I've kissed [C] the _ [F] gate's head.
_ _ With Basil, the song about Basil Bunting.
[Am] When I was 14 or _ so, in a copy boy.
He calls for [C] a copy boy, [F] grumpy as hell.
There was a rather [Dm] forbidding figure who worked there.
Poets [F] have to eat as well.
He wrote an epic poem called Break Flats.
What he [Am] wouldn't give _ [C] just to walk [F] out today.
It was really in many [C] ways a meditation [Dm] on time.
To have _ [F] time, to think about time.
Which all poetry [Dm] is.
Basil, Basil, [G] Basil.
There he was.
_ _ I think a lot of these songs, they are connected by time.
_ _ [Eb] _ _
So long ago, but still he wants to know.
_ [Bb] Anyone has seen her?
If you've got a little bit of [Eb] time, it's kind of nice to take it.
[Bb] And he's sitting out in the night.
[Eb] Looking down upon [F] the lights [Bb] of Tamiya.
_ _ [F] Whoops, he's even forgotten that one.
[Bb] What we're trying to do is preserve the best of the old.
[Eb] Keep it working with the best of the new.
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Some of the old stuff just sounds beautiful. _ _ _
[Eb] We've pushed harder [Ab] to experiment more.
As much with old gear [Bb] as with new gear.
_ And finding combinations that you wouldn't necessarily have instinctively gone to. _
_ _ _ _ _ Just different pieces of equipment reacting with each other.
Okay, let's go.
And made some nice discoveries. _ _
_ _ _ _ On [Eb] this album, Mark wanted to use [Bb] tape for everything.
_ _ Literally everything.
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_ [Gm] _ The _ _ [F] smell of tape. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] We often find ourselves spending most of the day playing with microphones.
_ _ [Bb] It's like when you give a microphone [Eb] amp or a microphone the right voltage.
[Bb] It's a happy microphone.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] It's like you can apply it to cars in [Bb] particular. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] If the engine's not over revving, _ _ _
_ [C] _ it's a happy engine.
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_ [D] _ _ [E] But _ _ _ [B] you really need an awful lot of desire to do this.
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Once more.
I'd be trying to [F] write a good song.
[B] Then to try to make a good record of [Db] it.
Here we go.
[B] _ _ _ The whole package [E] makes it all an extremely pleasurable [Gb] experience to make records.
Wonderful, hi.
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_ [E] _ _ And then the song walks out the door [Gb] and goes off to have a life of its own.
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_ [E] _ And then to go out and maybe play it for people.
[Gb] To complete the circuit.
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And [E] that's what keeps it exciting.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ If I'd had to make a living [E] as a guitar player, I don't know whether I would have managed that very [Gb] much.
I think the [Eb] band let me get away with [B] stuff because I'm [Gb] the guy who wrote the [E] song.
_ Why did I do that?
Because it's [Gb] alright.
[Em] Oh, I'm late.
_ It's not quite the same as [Cm] being a musician.
That's a whole other thing. _ _
_ [Am] Basil puts _ on his [C] old duffel [F] and scarf _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [F] Goes out into the dark
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