Tunnel of Love

Dire Straits

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Tunnel of Love

Year: 1980 - Album: Money for Nothing
Written by Mark Knopfler
Key: F
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Getting crazy on the waltzers, but it's the life that I choose  
 
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Sing about the sixblade sing about the switchback and a torture tatoo  
 
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              Dm                             F  
And I've been riding on a ghost train   
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where the cars they scream and slam  
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And I don't know where I'll be tonight but I'd always tell you where I am  
 
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     Dm                             F  
In a screaming ring of faces   
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                          C  
I seen her standing in the light  
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She had a ticket for the races just like me she was a victim of the night  
 
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I put my hand upon the lever   
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                            C  
said let it rock and let it roll  
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I had the one arm bandit fever  
 
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there was an arrow through my heart and my soul  
 
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And the big wheel keep on turning  
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     F            Bb  
neon burning , up above  
 
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         F  
And I am high on the world  
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            C      Dm               Bb  
come on and take a low ride with me girl.  
 
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                   Dm  C  Dm  Bb  
On the tunnel of love.  
 
              Dm     F                              C  
It's just the danger when you're riding at your own risk  
 
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She said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let's keep it like this  
 
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            Dm              F  
It's just a cakewalk   
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                                C  
twisting baby step right up and say  
 
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Hey mister give me two give me two cos any two can play  
 
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                           Bb           C  
And the big wheel keep on turning  
 
     F            Bb  
neon burning , up above  
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         F  
And I am high on the world  
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        C      Dm               Bb  
come on take a low ride with me girl.  
 
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                   Dm  C  Dm  Bb  
On the tunnel of love.  
 
(2:47) 
 
               Gm                       Bb  
Well it's been money for muscle another whirligig  
 
Gm                               Bb  
Money for muscle         another girl I dig  
 
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Gm                                     Bb  
Another hustle            just to make it big  
 
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    C              C  
and rock away      rock away rock away 
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(3:05) 
 
    F                              C Dm  
And girl, it looks so pretty to me , just like it always did  
 
Bb C                          F Bb                      C  
   Like the Spanish city to me, when we were kids.  
 
   F                             C Dm                      Bb   
Oh girl it looks so pretty to me  ,   like it always did  
 
 C                          F Bb                    C  
Like the Spanish city to me  ,   when we were kids.  
 
 
(3:32) 
 
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               Dm            F                       C  
She took off a silver locket she said remenber me by this  
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She put her hand in my pocket  
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                       Dm  
I got a keepsake and a kiss  
 
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(4:20) 
 
                   Dm                    F  
And in the roar of dust and diesel  
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                        C  
I stood and watched her walk away  
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I could have caught up with her easy enough but something must have made me stay  
 
                           Bb      C      F            Bb  
And the big wheel keep on turning , neon burning , up above  
 
(4:41) 
 
         F  
And I am high on this world  
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        C      Dm               Bb  
come on take a low ride with me girl.  
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(4:47) 
 
                   Dm  C  Dm  Bb  
On the tunnel of love.  
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                   Dm  C  Dm  Bb  
On the tunnel of love.  
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            Gm                                        Bb  
And now I'm searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades  
 
Gm                              Bb  
Searching everywhere      from steeplechase and palisades  
 
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(5:09) 
 
       Gm                     Bb  
In any shooting gallery where promises are made  
 
   C                                                                    
To rock away rock away rock away rock away           
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                        C 
 from cullercoats and whitley bay                out to rockaway  
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(5:27) 
 
F                                 C Dm                     Bb C  
And girl it looks so pretty to me  ,   like it always did  
 
                            F Bb                     C F  
Like the Spanish city to me  ,   when we were kids.  
 
                                  C Dm                      Bb C  
And girl it looks so pretty to me  ,   like it always did  
 
                            F Bb                    C  
Like the Spanish city to me  ,   when we were kids.  
 
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