Biography:
Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. He was the lead guitarist, lead singer, and songwriter for the rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded with his younger brother, David Knopfler, in 1977. He was born in Glasgow but raised near Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Since Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler has recorded and produced nine solo albums and, as with his previous band, produced many hit songs.
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Other songs:
- Brothers In Arms
- Camerado
- Princess Bride Song (storybook Love)
- Remembrance Day
- Romeo And Juliet
- Sailing To Philadelphia
- Speedway At Nazareth
- Storybook Love (the Princess Bride Song)
- True Love Will Never Fade
- What It Is
- 38 Special
- 5 15 Am
- A Night In Summer Long Ago
- After The Beanstalk
- All That I Have In The World
- All That Matters
- All The Roadrunning
- Are We In Trouble Now
- Back On The Dance Floor
- Back To Tupelo
- Baloney Again
- Basil
- Before Gas And Tv
- Behind With The Rent
- Belle Starr
- Beryl
- Beyond My Wildest Dreams
- Blood And Water
- Bluebird
- Boom Like That
- Border Reiver
- Broken Bones
- Cannibals
- Cleaning My Gun
- Corned Beef City
- Daddys Gone To Knoxville
- Darling Pretty
- Devil Baby
- Done With Bonaparte
- Donkey Town
- Dont You Get It
- Down The Road Wherever
- Dream Of The Drowned Submariner
- Drovers Road
- Early Bird
- El Macho
- Every Heart In The Room
- Everybody Pays
- Fare Thee Well Northumberland
- Floating Away
- Get Lucky
- Go Love
- Golden Heart
- Good As Gold
- Good On You Son
- Got To Have Something
- Hard Shoulder
- Haul Away
- Heart Full Of Holes
- Heart Of Oak
- Heavy Up
- Hill Farmers Blues
- Home Boy
- Hot Dog
- I Dug Up A Diamond
- I Used To Could
- If I Had You
- If This Is Goodbye
- In The Sky
- Je Suis Desole
- Je Suis Dsol
- Junkie Doll
- Just A Boy Away From Home
- Kill To Get Crimson
- Kingdom Of Gold
- Laughs And Jokes And Drinks And Smokes
- Let It All Go
- Lights Of Taormina
- Lily Of The West
- Long Cool Girl
- Madame Genevas
- Matchstick Man
- Metroland
- Mighty Man
- Miss You Blues
- Monteleone
- My Bacon Roll
- My Claim To Fame
- My Heart Has Never Changed
- No Wonder Hes Confused
- Nobody Does That
- Nobodys Child
- Occupation Blues
- Oklahoma Ponies
- Old Pigweed
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- One More Matinee
- One Song At A Time
- Our Shangri
- Piper To The End
- Postcards From Paraguay
- Prairie Wedding
- Privateering
- Pulling Down The Ride
- Punish The Monkey
- Quality Shoe
- Radio City Serenade
- Raglan Road
- Redbud Tree
- Right Now
- River Of Grog
- River Towns
- Rollin On
- Rudiger
- Sands Of Nevada
- Seattle
- Secondarty Waltz
- Secondary Waltz
- Shangri
- Silver Eagle
- Silvertown Blues
- Sky And Water
- Skydiver
- Slow Learner
- Small Potatoes
- So Far From The Clyde
- Someday
- Song For Sonny Liston
- Stand Up Guy
- Storybook Love
- Stretching Out
- Sucker Row
- Tall Order Baby
- Terminal Of Tribute To
- The Car Was The One
- The Fish And The Bird
- The Fizzy And The Still
- The Last Laugh
- The Long Highway
- The Ragpickers Dream
- The Scaffolders Wife
- The Trawlermans Song
- The Way It Always Starts
- This Is Us
- Time Will End All Sorrow
- Tracker
- Trapper Man
- Trawlermans Song
- Vic And Ray
- Wanderlust
- Water Of Love
- We Can Get Wild
- When You Leave
- Wherever I Go
- Whoop De Doo
- Whos Your Baby Now
- Why Aye Man
- Yon Two Crows
- You Dont Know Youre Born
- Your Perfect Song
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Tuning: Standard
Capo: 1st fret
Key: Ab
E5 [x7xx00]
E5/D [x5xx00]
E5/C# [x4xx00]
E5/C [x3225x]
| G G/B | C D/A | x4
| D/A |
G G/B C
Your slack-jawed dimness is our loss
Am7 D/A
Condemns us to your point of view
G G/B C
Who could give a flying toss
Am7 D/A
What you like to chill out to?
C D/A
And why should I lighten up for you
C D/A
If you can’t heavy up for me?
C Am7
Why should I?
D/A D/A
Why should I?
G G/B C
You grunt and root your patch of earth
Am7 D/A
Adrift from shame and deaf to sound
G G/B C
How much is your praise really worth?
Am7 D/A
About the same as your thumbs down
C D/A
And why should I lighten up for you
C D/A
If you can’t heavy up for me?
C Am7
Why should I?
D/A D/A
Why should I?
G G/B
So heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
Heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
You can give it up
C D/A
Give it up with me
G G/B
Or heavy up
C D/A D/A
Heavy up for me
E5
E5/D
What would it take
E5/C# E5/C
To get you to
G E7
Just to shut it?
Am7 D/A
I’d so love it
| G G/B | C | Am7 | D/A |
| G G/B | C | Am7 | D/A |
| D/A |
C D/A
And why should I lighten up for you
C D/A
If you can’t heavy up for me?
C Am7
Why should I?
D/A D/A
Why should I?
G G/B
So heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
Heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
You can give it up
C D/A
Give it up with me
G G/B
Or heavy up
C D/A D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B C
You won’t of course, you will be heard
Am7 D/A
Ah, but at least a man can dream
G G/B C
I’m afraid, alas, the turd
Am7 D/A
Who thinks he’s an ice cream
C D/A
And why should I lighten up for you
C D/A
If you can’t heavy up for me?
C Am7
Why should I?
D/A D/A
Why should I?
G G/B
So heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
Heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
You can give it up
C D/A
Give it up with me
G G/B
Or heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
Yeah, heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
Heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
You can give it up
C D/A
Give it up with me
G G/B
Or heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
| G G/B | C D/A | Fade Out
Capo: 1st fret
Key: Ab
E5 [x7xx00]
E5/D [x5xx00]
E5/C# [x4xx00]
E5/C [x3225x]
| G G/B | C D/A | x4
| D/A |
G G/B C
Your slack-jawed dimness is our loss
Am7 D/A
Condemns us to your point of view
G G/B C
Who could give a flying toss
Am7 D/A
What you like to chill out to?
C D/A
And why should I lighten up for you
C D/A
If you can’t heavy up for me?
C Am7
Why should I?
D/A D/A
Why should I?
G G/B C
You grunt and root your patch of earth
Am7 D/A
Adrift from shame and deaf to sound
G G/B C
How much is your praise really worth?
Am7 D/A
About the same as your thumbs down
C D/A
And why should I lighten up for you
C D/A
If you can’t heavy up for me?
C Am7
Why should I?
D/A D/A
Why should I?
G G/B
So heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
Heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
You can give it up
C D/A
Give it up with me
G G/B
Or heavy up
C D/A D/A
Heavy up for me
E5
E5/D
What would it take
E5/C# E5/C
To get you to
G E7
Just to shut it?
Am7 D/A
I’d so love it
| G G/B | C | Am7 | D/A |
| G G/B | C | Am7 | D/A |
| D/A |
C D/A
And why should I lighten up for you
C D/A
If you can’t heavy up for me?
C Am7
Why should I?
D/A D/A
Why should I?
G G/B
So heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
Heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
You can give it up
C D/A
Give it up with me
G G/B
Or heavy up
C D/A D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B C
You won’t of course, you will be heard
Am7 D/A
Ah, but at least a man can dream
G G/B C
I’m afraid, alas, the turd
Am7 D/A
Who thinks he’s an ice cream
C D/A
And why should I lighten up for you
C D/A
If you can’t heavy up for me?
C Am7
Why should I?
D/A D/A
Why should I?
G G/B
So heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
Heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
You can give it up
C D/A
Give it up with me
G G/B
Or heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
Yeah, heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
Heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
G G/B
You can give it up
C D/A
Give it up with me
G G/B
Or heavy up
C D/A
Heavy up for me
| G G/B | C D/A | Fade Out
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