Chords for Mark Knopfler - Sultans Of Swing (An Evening With Mark Knopfler, 2009)

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[E] The thing about the guitar is that _ _ _ _ _ it's a hard instrument.
_ You have to make your fingers go where they don't really want to go in the first place.
And so _ it [Ab] fights you.
_ _ So if you're playing one thing down [A] here, _ _ _ you play it there, but you play it [Am] here,
_ [E] and it's [D] a different fingering.
_ _ [E] And it's different there, and [A] _
it's different [E] there.
[B] And there, and there.
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And it's different there.
And every single one has a _ different_
So you've just got to figure out slowly, it sort of comes to you that you have to make
these [F] shapes in your mind, I suppose, that fit.
When you improvise something on a record, and the record comes out, it seems like a
good idea at the time, and then it becomes part of _ _ the architecture of the thing.
_ So if I was going to start Brothers in Arms, I would start it like [Gm] this. _
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[C] I've tried playing it lots of other ways, _ and it doesn't seem to work.
And I came home one night and I said, darling, I was playing Sultan's tonight, and I didn't _ really_
I don't know, [A] maybe I should stop playing it.
And Kitty, my wife, said, well, did you play Twiddlybits at the end?
And I said, no, I didn't.
[N] She said, well, that's the problem then, isn't it?
That's the problem.
So I try not to let the song be cabaret.
When I play the song, I really like to play these songs. _
You know, the _ songs that I've written, and I like playing all the old songs.
I really enjoy it.
But I've got to try and keep something in them that is the song, because they're landmarks for people.
The songs are milestones for people in their lives, and they use them, and they _ use them
to live with.
And I love that. _ _ _ _
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_ And the man, [F] he just steps [Bb] forward up to the [A]
microphone.
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_ _ [C] Says at [Bb] last, he's the time [A] bell ringer.
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_ _ Thank you, good night.
[C] Now it's time to go home.
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_ _ He makes it fast.
One more [Dm] thing.
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[C] _ We are the sultans.
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[C] _ _ We are the _ [Dm] sultans, all three.
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_ _ [C] _ [Bb] I think we used to play it [C] a bit faster then.
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[Dm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ So I don't [C] know what _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ any of [C] this is going to be.
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_ _ _ And then I'll come to this.
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ it goes, you know. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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