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Again, here's my version:
SONG: The Man's Too Strong
ARTIST: Dire Straits
ALBUM: Brothers In Arms (1985)
INTRO:
C (strums) C (strums)e----------------------------------------0-------------0---------------B----------------------------------------1-------------1---------------G--------0h2-2-2-2---2-2-0--------2-0----0-------------0-------0-------D--0--3--------------------3-0--------2--2-------------2-----2------0--A----------------------------------------3----------3--3---3------1----E----------------------------------------------------------------------
Bb(strums) Dm(strums) Dm(strums)e--1-------------------1-------------1--------------------------B--3-------------------3-------------3--------------------------G--3-------------------2-------------2----------------0h2-2-2-2- etc.D--3---------3p0---0---0----------0--0---------0h3--3-----------A--1-------------3--------------3-------------------------------E---------------------------------------------------------------
Dm C
I am just an aging drummer-boy, and in the wars I used to play
Bb Dm
And I've called a tune to many a torture session.
Dm C
Now they say I am a war criminal, and I'm a-fading away.
Bb
Father, please hear my confession.
G D
I have legalized robbery and called it belief
G D
I have run with the money, I have hid like a thief
G D
I have rewritten history with my armies and my crooks
D C Am D
Invented memories, I did burn all the books
Dm C Em
And I can still hear his laughter, and I can still hear his song
Emsus2 Em D C D C
The man's too big, the man's too strong
C Cm G Gm etc.
For chords, play the Dm, D, C, Em, Am and G as open. Play the Bb in 1st
position. I play the Emsus2, Gm and Cm as:
Emsus2 Gm Cme--2- -3- -3-B--0- -3- -1-G--0- -3- -0-D--2- -x- -1-A--2- -x- -x-E--0- -x- -x-
Jim!
jreese@leland.stanford.edu