Chords for Knopfler Brothers In Arms (2005 Documentary) AI Version 4K

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_ _ _ Brothers in [G] Arms was a gigantic album for Dire Straits, topping the charts in 22 [C] countries.
_ _ But it's hardly an apt description of the story [Gm] behind the Knotfler brothers, who started the band.
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We used to walk past a window, Mark [D] and I, where we lived in Gosforth, and they'd hide guitars in the window.
_ And wherever we were hanging out together, we would always visit the guitar shops and always look in the windows.
_ _ [G] _ Mark eventually got an imitation Fender in the form of a [Eb] Hofner Super Solid, which I still have somewhere.
_ I shouldn't put that on [Gb] record, we don't want it back.
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Mark learned to play on that primarily, but without an amp.
And whenever he went out to [B] do his thing, _ I'd pull it out from under his bed and [E] learn to play it myself.
_ _ _ _ But Mark and I didn't really get into seriously playing together at all. _
I think I'd finished college, then I moved over to [Fm] Essex, where he was a lecturer.
[Gb] I was starting my first job as a social worker, [A] could you believe?
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And so there was a social worker and a lecturer, it didn't really sound like the most promising of beginnings.
We did most of the [Bm] writing, really, for the first album [E] in that burst of [Bm] togetherness.
The _ _ [D] sun's going down, _ [A] _ it's over [G] _ _
thirty pounds.
[Bm] Dire Straits' debut album [D] was recorded for £12,500.
[A] _ It went on to sell [E] millions.
[Bm] Very early on, it was pretty clear to me that David would generally be [A] _ overruled.
_ Usually by the word, shut up.
[Bm] _ _ [Gb] So he would say something and Mark [Bm] would kind of go, shut up, _ shut up. _ _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ I [Bm] tried to sign them for [D] Ireland, but [E] we got beaten [A] by phonogram.
But they asked me if [D] I would produce their first album.
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] Clear to me that Mark's [Am] facility for playing the guitar was unusual and very good.
And that that's what was going to give us our [Dm] extra [G] turbo charge.
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ Mark was very dominant [F] in Dire Straits.
_ However, I'd noticed that his brother [Em] also wrote some very [G] good songs.
And [F] why not cut eight songs of [F] Mark's and a couple of songs of Dave's?
And I suddenly [C] found a great deal of resistance [Eb] to this from Mark. _ _ _
[A] _ Essentially, Dire Straits [E] was a vehicle for Mark Knopfler's songs.
That's what the band was.
And [Am] there wasn't room _ for _ anybody else's stuff. _ _ _ _ _ _
I thought it was a democracy, but I was [Gb] probably deluded.
No, it [Ebm] wasn't really a democracy.
[Dm] It was Mark's [C] band.
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Sultans of [C] Swing was the standout track, [D] totally against the grain of New Wave.
[Bb] But in 1979, it [C] went top ten in the UK and the USA.
[D] Czech guitar, [C] George.
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[A] Vino's, Markov. _ _ _
[Dm] I was _ [Fm] five [Bb] yards away [A] when they performed that song.
_ And I [C] vividly remember being just [Dm] absolutely knocked out.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] David Knopfler was totally [Bb] capable, extremely good [C] guitar player,
and as good or as bad as any other top quality rock band [Dm] musician.
_ _ [G] Mark Knopfler [C] was one above that.
And there are [Dm] very few [A] that are one above that.
[F] I was a good musician.
I wasn't a great musician.
But I was still quite [C] a newbie.
So Mark could get me out of [Bb] difficulties.
I mean, if I was [C]
struggling a little bit, only he would notice, you know,
because being [D] brothers you do.
_ _ [Bb] We could each communicate [C] to each other with such a subtle _ gesture
that [F] not another person would know what it [Ab] meant,
but it would communicate [Dm] exactly what we wanted to say [C] to each other.
Of course, that would prove to be invaluable.
It also can prove to be the downfall, because if things are tense,
then of course you read the body language very well too. _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] Sultan's of Swing _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [C] hit really, really quickly.
_ [Dm] And all of a sudden, everything [N] changes.
We might have to take the first. _ _
They want to take the first, yeah?
[Eb] _ From December [N] 77 _ _ to January of _ 1980, _ _
we didn't stop.
I mean, and we really didn't stop.
Tim, look, we've had this discussion innumerable times.
There are no extra dates possible.
We should be thankful for what we have.
The pressures are unbelievable.
And you're travelling 200 miles, 300 miles every day as well.
_ _ [D] _ And that kind of success is obviously kind of a pressure on a [C] relationship.
No relationships can stand that kind of scrutiny.
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_ _ I [D] had a fear instilled in me quite early on
that the whole thing might collapse _ because of their relationship.
_ _ I was probably the only person that could disagree with him,
and that was probably an enormous inconvenience to Mark.
_ If you're surrounded by people telling you what colour ashtray do you want,
you _ _ don't really need your kid brother there around
kind of reminding you that you're still just Mark.
_ _ _ Super for Mark.
But as the band recorded their third album, David was super frustrated.
_ David was increasingly uncomfortable
with the prominence that his brother was getting.
Most of the press attention, most of the media attention,
and he was being hailed as a genius [A] and all the rest of it. _ _
_ I [E] mean, he needed me to get the first [A] album away
and to get the first band together and for it to be successful.
It wouldn't have happened without me.
[E] _ By the time he was at making movies,
I was really just in a lot of ways in the way of what [D] he wanted to do.
[F] _ _ [Bb] [Eb] We were in New York recording it [Bb] and, _ [D] you know, things were very rocky.
_ And Mark was being particularly _
_ [C] Mark
_ _ and was taking [Bb] no prisoners.
_ Yeah, [G] you can get used to just coming in on that,
Oh, yeah, at the end of that, _ [E] after you've eaten your_
_ [G] Can we go back to right back to the start?
Oh, [Db] yeah.
OK.
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Mark just turned [Eb] around and he said,
I don't care what you play, you can play whatever the fuck you want.
I really don't care.
It makes no difference.
And we were heading towards rock bottom at that point.
_ I'd suggested that Mark go and take a break and have a [E] beer,
which apparently you don't do to, you know,
major rock stars playing in American recording [Dm] studios like Power Station.
It wasn't just the musical relationship that was breaking down,
it was the personal relationship that was breaking down.
_ _ [Ab] OK, so the right place, wrong time.
It [Bm] was just getting too difficult to work [E] together.
_ _ David walked [B] out on the band, never to [E] return.
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Mark went on to establish Dire [B] Straits
as one of the biggest [A] stadium rock acts of all [B] time.
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_ David [A] has had more modest success.
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_ _ Since [Gbm] I left the band, I've made _ nine albums I can call mine,
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all of which I've [Ab] enjoyed [E] increasingly,
because each one's become closer to the heart
of where I originally thought we were going with the Straits.
I cannot hold you
[B] If you won't hold me too _
[Ab] If as brothers you form a band, you're [Gb] taking the calculated risk
that the relationship may be permanently damaged,
and it's a tragedy [E] if that happens.
_ In the case of the Knopflers, it [B] has been.
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[Abm] I had no vision about what the [E] consequences of what the price might be.
I mean, [A] you don't when you're a young kid with a guitar. _
[B] _ I'd take you anyplace, [A]
risking it all for you
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