Chords for Mark Knopfler - What It Is

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_ [E] _ [F#m] The ringed dens are [A] spilling out, staggering in a square.
[D] As lads and lasses fall [A] about and are [E] crackling in the air.
[F#m] Then around the dungeon [A] doors there's shelters and a queue.
_ [D] _ Everybody's looking for [A]
somebody's [E] arms.
_ [F#m] Swatting [A] each head.
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_ [E] _ [F#m] Swatting each head.
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_ [E] _ [F#m] You hear the frost on the graves and the monuments, [A] but the taverns are warm in town.
[D] People curse the government [A]
and shovel [E] hot food [F#m] down.
Lights are out in City Hall, [A] the castle and the keep.
[D] The moon shines down upon it all, [A] the [E] legless and the [D] sleepless.
Cold on the toll gate, [A] where the wagon's creeping through.
_ [D] Cold on the toll gate, [A] God knows what [E] I could do to keep.
[F#m] That's what it is.
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_ [E] _ [F#m] The gaffer speaks in the citadel [A] with a ghost in an ancient stone.
[D] High on the parapet, [A] a Scottish piper [E] stands alone.
[F#m] High on the wind, the [A] Highland groves make a roar.
_ [D] Something from the past just [A] comes and stares [E] into my soul.
[D] Cold on the toll gate, [A] where the Caledonia rose.
[D] Cold on the toll gate, [A] God knows what [E] I could do to keep.
[F#m] That's what it is.
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_ [E] _ [F#m] a chink of light, there's a burning wick, [A] there's a lantern in the tower.
_ [D] We will e'er make it with the [A] candlesticks to a writing [E] song.
Send a wing, we'll howl [F#m] it's on Charlotte Street.
Take a [A] walking stick from my hotel.
[D] The ghost of 30 [A] dickers still in [E] search of fiddle now.
[F#m] That's what it is.
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_ [E] _ [F#m] That's what it is now.
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