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In the Gallery

Dire Straits
ChordsKeyBbmCapoFret 1beginner
★4.6(31)

Chords in this song5

capo 1 — sounds a semitone higher

Intro

| C | C | C | C |
| G | G | D | D |
| Am | Am D | Am | D |
| Am | Am D | Am | D |

Verse 1

Harry made a bareback rider proud and free upon a horse    
And a fine coalminer for the NCB that was    
A fallen angel and Jesus on the cross     
A skating ballerina you should have seen her do the skater's waltz    

Verse 2

Some people have got to paint and draw  
Harry had to work in clay and stone     
Like the waves coming to the shore  
It was in his blood and in his bones    
It was ignored by all the trendy boys in London and in Leeds 
He might as well have been making toys or strings of beads 
He could'nt be... He could'nt be.....in the gallery

Interlude

| Am | Am D | Am | D |
| Am | Am D | Am | D |

Verse 3

And then you get an artist says he doesn't want to paint at all     
He takes an empty canvas and sticks it on the wall    
The birds of a feather all the phonies and all of the fakes
While the dealers they get together
And they decide who gets the breaks
And who's going to be, who's going to be in the gallery

Solo

| Am | Am D | Am | D |
| Am | Am D | Am | D |
| Am | Am D | Am | D |
| Am | Am D | Am C | D G |
| Am | Am D | Am | D |
| Am | Am D | Am C | G |
| Am | Am D | Am | D |
| Am | Am G | C | G |
| C | C | C | C |
| G | G | D | D |
| Am | Am D | Am | D |
| Am | Am D | Am | D |

Verse 4

No lies he wouldn't compromise 
No junk, no bits of string     
And all the lies we subsidise 
That just don't mean a thing    
I've got to say he passed away in obscurity 
And now all the vultures are coming down from the tree
So he's going to be, so he's going to be ... in the gallery

Outro

| Am | Am D | Am | D | x16
(Fade out)

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