Chords for Mark Knopfler - Monteleone (An Evening With Mark Knopfler, 2009)

_ It's actually money for nothing was a situation where I was in a shop and and I heard a guy going on
I'm sure a lot of people have heard the story now, so I'm not gonna but
they are characters who you see real people who you see and you write about them _ and _ _ The _
_ _ the there's a tradition of great violin makers in Italy from
Stradivarius and gone area and Amato and they and they Cremona in Italy and there's a tradition
_ Making these f-hole guitars in New York City by Italians and it's sort of a strange parallel
D'Angelico and Cristo and now a man called John Montalioni and I met John Montalioni and it was like meeting
_ _ It was like meeting Stradivari.
I'm sure it was like that.
He was he's like Leonardo da Vinci in a way and and _ and
I considered my dialed myself out of having a guitar, but _ but I was just too beautiful
I mean, I just thought I'm not in this league and
_ but he he wanted to make me a guitar we _ was lucky enough to get have a visit to his workshop and _ and _ _ and
He and he said about building me a guitar, which is an arch top guitar with f-holes like a violin like John's violin
I don't have it here.
It's a beautiful thing.
And but when he was making it for me
he he'd send me little emails and _ I
Watched him in his workshop and he'd [A] lean into the wood and he'd tap it like this and he had these little finger [E]
planes and
all these special tools chisels that he had a real relationship with and
_ He'd send me these little messages saying that
I mean sign off if [N] a little picture of something that he was making for at the bridge or something
And he this is the world's greatest builder of the guitar in the moment
The arch so many and he'd say things like the chisels are calling, _ _ you know, it's time to make sawdust _ _ _ _ and _
I realized of course that he had this compulsion to be with these chisels and his work and it was [A] inspiring
So wrote the song and it's called [Abm] Montalioni
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It's [Abm] _ _ _ [E] _ time to [Abm] make _ [E] sawdust
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_ _ [E] steely
_ [Abm] _ Reminders [Dbm] of things left to do _ _
_ [Abm] _ [A] _ _ _ Montalioni _
_ _ Mandolins waiting [E] for you
_ [Abm] _ my [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ finger planes working
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[E] _ gentle _ _ persuasion [Dbm] _
I
[E] _ _ _ _ Bend to the word [Dbm] and I coax it to sing
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Montalioni
_ You knew one and only [E] will
_ _ _ On _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
to the only _ _ you one and only
_ [E] _ Rain _
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_ [Gbm] _ on [F] the window _ [A]
snow on the [Eb] gravel
[Gbm] The seasons go by to [Eb] the songs in [D] the world
_ _ [E] Too quick or too [B] careless [A] it all could [E]
unravel
_ _ _ _ so easy
[B] _ _ The _ _ [Dbm] _
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_ _ _ _ _ chisels are calling
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It's back for [Abm] an [E] encore
_ _ _ _ _ _ Back to [Abm] the shavings that [Dbm] cover the floor
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_ Montalioni
_ _ [Gbm] a _ calling [E] for more _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ Montalioni _ _ _
Who the calling for [E] more _
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