Chords for Mark Knopfler - Tracker (A Short Film by Henrik Hansen | Official Documentary)

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My position as a songwriter [C] is just to try to make a good recording of a good [F] song. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Db] There's so many songs I'll never get around to _ recording.
[Am] Five cigarettes [Em] and two [Fm] silver half crowns, [A] three decibel isolation. _ _ _
_ _ [F] I'm a Jack [C] and a lad, _
_ [F] _ _ and I'm_ _
_ I'm a Jack [C] and a lad, _
_ [F] _ and I'm up [C] for the _ world.
[F] _ _ Now kiss [C] the [F] _
gate's hand.
With Basil, the song about Basil Bunting, _ [Am] when I was 14 or so, being a copy boy.
He calls for [G] a copy boy, grumpy [F] as hell.
There was a rather [Dm] forbidding figure who worked there.
Poets [F] have to eat as well.
And he wrote an epic poem called Break Flats.
What he [Am] wouldn't give [C] just to walk out [F] today.
It was really in many [C] ways a meditation on [Dm] time.
To have time, [F] to think about time.
Which all poetry [Dm] is.
Basil, [Gm] Basil, Basil, where are you?
Here you are. _ _
I think a lot of these songs, they are connected by time. _ _
_ _ So long ago, but still he wants [Eb] to know.
_ Where do you [Bb] wanna see 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 hay.
Looking [Eb] down upon the [F] lights up [Bb] down here. _
_ [F] Whoopsie, see, I forgot that one.
What we're [Eb] trying to do is preserve the best of the old, keep it working with the best of the new.
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Some of the old stuff just sounds beautiful. _
_ [Gm] We pushed harder to [Ab] experiment more.
As much with old gear as with [Bb] new gear.
_ And finding combinations that you wouldn't necessarily have instinctively gone to.
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_ _ Just different pieces of equipment reacting with each other.
Okay, [B] let's go.
[Bb] And made some nice discoveries.
_ _ _ _ _ On [Eb] this album, Mark wanted to use tape [Bb] for everything.
_ Literally everything. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [F] The smell of tape. _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] [Eb] We often find ourselves spending most of the day playing with microphones.
_ [Bb] It's like when you give a microphone [Eb] out, or a microphone the right voltage.
[Bb] It's a happy microphone.
_ [Eb] _ _ [A] It's like you can apply it to [Bb] cars in particular. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] If the engine's not [N] over revving, _ _ _ it's [A] a happy engine.
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_ _ _ [E] _ [B] But you really need an awful lot of [Em] desire to do [B] this. _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ You're trying to write a good song, [B] and to try to make a good [Db] record of it. _ _
[B] The _ whole [E] package makes it all an extremely pleasurable [Gb] experience to make records.
_ Wonderful guy.
_ _ [B] And _ [E] _ _
then the song walks out the door [Gb] and goes off to have a life of its own.
[B] _ _ _ [E] And then to go out and maybe play it for people.
[Gb] To complete the circuit.
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[E] And 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 [Gb] that very much.
And I [Eb] think the 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.
[Abm] _ _ _ It's not [A] quite the same [Cm] as being a musician.
But that's a whole other thing. _ _
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