Skateaway Chords by Dire Straits

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[D] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ [G] I [D] seen a girl on a one-way [C] corridor,
_ _ stealing [D] down a wrong way street.
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[D] I want the world like a [C] girl in an orchestra. _
[D] She had wheels on her, _ [C] on her feet. _
[D] _ The [G] cars do [C] the usual dances. _ _
[D] _ Same old [G] crews in [C] the curbside crawl.
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[D] _ Roller [G] girls, he's taking [C] chances. _ _
_ [D] Just [G] love to [C] see her [G] take them [A] all.
[Am] Loafing here alone at night, [Em] she's sailing through the crowd.
[A] And [Am] her music's pulled [G] so tight, her music's playing [A]
loud.
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Hallelujah, [G] _ [C] here she comes,
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queen of all [G] the bar.
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And [G] enchanté, [C] can I say,
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_ [G] care [C]-a-ho.
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_ [G] You know, she [C] used to have to wait around.
She [D] used to be the only one.
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But now [G] that she [C] can skate around town,
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she's the [G] only, [C] _ _ [G] only [A] one.
[Am] Loafing here alone at [Em] night, she's sailing through the crowd.
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And her [Am] music's pulled so [C] tight, her music's [D] playing loud. _
_ _ [C] _ [D] You [G] get rock and roll,
in a rock and [Bm] roll station.
[Em] _ And the rock and roll queen,
[Bm] _ _ [C] she's making [Em]
[Am] movies on location.
[G] _ _ She [D] don't know what it means.
_ [G] Music make her wanna be the star.
[Bm] _ [Em] And the story was whatever was the song [Bm] wanted [G] was.
[C] _ Roller [Am] girls, _ don't [G] worry.
She takes me to [D] movies _ [Em] _ _ [D] all [C] night long.
All [G] night long.
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_ [G] Told you [C] she's taxiing, driving, just for fun.
[D] It's like the way the air [G] lives.
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[D] _ Toro, [G] toro [C] taxi, see you tomorrow, my son.
[D] _ She's like a [G] big truck, [C] [G] greasing her hair. _ _
[D] _ She's got her [G] own [C] world in the city. _ _
[D] You can't even [G] shoot on her, [C] no, [G] no. _
[D] _ She's got her [G] own [C] world in the city. _
[D] The city's being [G] so [C] rude [G] to her. _
[A] Loafing [Am] here alone at [Em] night, sailing through the [G] crowd.
[A] And her [Am] music's pulled so [C] tight, her music's [D] playing loud.
_ _ _ [C] _ [D] She gets [G] rock and roll,
in a rock and roll [Bm] station.
[Em] And the rock and roll queen,
[Bm] she's [C] _ making [Em] [Am] movies on occasion.
[G] _ _
She [D] don't know what it means.
But [G] the music make her wanna be the star.
_ [Em] And the story was whatever was the song [Bm] wanted [C] was.
Roller [Am] girls, don't [G] worry.
She takes me [D] to movies _ [Em] _ _ [D] all [C] night long.
All [G] night long. _ _
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[D] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ Slip and slide, _ [D] _ [G] your life's a [C] roller ball.
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[D] _ Slip and [G] slide, [C] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ [G] skate [C] away, that's [G] all.
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[D] _ Shalala, [G] shalini, [C] _ _ _ _
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[D] na, na, na, [G] shalini.
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[D] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ [G] She [D] sings, shalala, [G] shalini.
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[D] She sings, [G] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
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shalala, [G] shalini.
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_ _ _ [C] Ah.
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