Basil by Mark Knopfler Lyric and Guitar Chords

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If you are looking for Basil guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play Basil by Mark Knopfler using guitar or guitar.
This song by Mark Knopfler can also be played by that instruments.
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Basil guitar chords has rhythm and included in Tracker (2015) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

Basil by Mark Knopfler Guitar Chords


Key: A Minor
Time: 6/8

CAPO: No

C/G……………………..[332010]
Dm/A…………………….[x00231]
FMaj7……………………[133210]

F#m7b5…………………..
Bm7b5……………………
Am7add11…………………[x05533]

| C | E7 | Am | % |
| Am | % |

My Saturday [(Am)]job pays s[C/G]ix and six down[Dm/A]
A copy boy at the Chronicle
Five cigarettes and two s[C/G]ilver half crowns[Dm/A]
Meeting Vince at Mark Toney?s in town[Dm/A]
Boy, do we get around

Basil sits t[(Am)]here on the t[C/G]able for subs
But not a part of the Bri-nylon club
Ancient blue sweater, too [C/G]old for the job
Bored out of his mind
With the Colins and Bobs

I?m a jack and a l[C/G]ad
And I?m up for the world
And I?ve kissed a Gateshead girl

He [(Am)]calls for a copy boy, gr[C/G]umpy as hell
Poets have to eat as well
What he wouldn?t give just to walk out today
To have time to think about time
And young love thrown away

I?m a jack and a lad
And I?m up for the world
And I?ve kissed a Gateshead girl

Starlings swarming a cloud
Over Grainger Street
Over the black church
Over the Bl[C/E]ack Gate
And the shadowy [(Am)]Keep

| Am | F#m7b5 | Bm7b5 | E7 |
| F | % | C | E7 |
| Am |

He peers through his [(Am)]wire rims
At the f[C/G]ish and chip words
He?s supposed to dish up and forget
His drudgery now has become slightly blurred
By one of his Players untipped cigarettes

Bury all joy
Put the poems in sacks
And bury me here with the hacks

| Am | (Am7add11) | % | % |

In the summer the [(Am)]fair
Will stretch [C/G]over the Moor
L[Dm/A]overs will lie and make out in the park
Basil puts on his old d[C/G]uffel and scarf
And goes out into the dark

| C | FMaj7 | C | FMaj7 |
| C | F | % |

| F |

If you want to learn Mark Knopfler Basil guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play Basil. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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