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Tunnel of Love

Dire Straits
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Chords in this song17

Organ Intro

time signature: 3/4
| Dm |
(freely)
| Bb | % | F | % |
| Bb | F | Bb | % |
| Bbaug | Bb | Bbm | F |
| Bb | F | Bb | % | % | % |

Intro

| Dm | Dm C | Dm | Bb C |
| Dm | F C | Dm | Bb C |
(Gettin' crazy ...

Verse 1

Getting crazy on the waltzers
but it's the life that I choose
sing about the six blade sing about the switchback
and a torture tattoo
and I've been riding on a ghost train
where the cars they scream and slam
and I don't know where I'll be tonight 
but I'd always tell you where I am

Verse 2

In a screaming ring of faces
I've seen her standing in the light
she had a ticket for the races
yeah just like me she was a victim of the night
I put a hand upon the lever
said let it rock and let it roll
I had the one arm bandit fever
There was an arrow through my heart and my soul

Chorus

And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
and I'm just high on this world
come on and take a low ride with me girl
on the tunnel of love
F C / Dm

Verse 3

It's just the danger
when you're riding at your own risk
She said you are the perfect stranger
She said baby let's keep it like this
It's just a cake walk
twisting baby step right up and say
Hey mister give me two give me two
cos any two can play

Chorus

And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
and I'm just high on this world
come on and take a low ride with me girl
on the tunnel of love
| F C | Dm |

Bridge

well it's been money for muscle another whirligig
money for muscle and another girl I dig
another hustle just to make it big
and rockaway rockaway 
yeah rockaway rockaway
and girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did 
like the Spanish city to me when we were kids
oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did 
Yeah, like the Spanish city to me when we were kids 

Instrumental

| F | C |
| Dm | Bb |
| C | F |
| Bb | C | x2
| Dm | F C |
| Dm |

Verse 4

She took off a silver locket
she said remember me by this
She put her hand in my pocket
I got a keepsake and a kiss
And in the roar of the dust and diesel
I stood and watched her walk away
I could have caught up with her easy enough
But something must have made me stay

Chorus

And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
and I'm just high on this world
come on and take a low ride with me girl
on the tunnel of love

Bridge

And now I'm searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades
Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades
In any shooting gallery where promises are made
and rockaway rockaway 
yeah rockaway rockaway
From Cullercoats and Whitley Bay 
out to rockaway
and girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did 
like the Spanish city to me when we were kids
oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did 
Yeah, like the Spanish city to me when we were kids 

Repeat ad lib

| F | C/E |
| Dm | Gm7 |
| C | F/A |
| Bb | C7/G *
* last time C7/G replaced by
| Bb F/A Gm7 Bb | C7sus4 C |
| F |

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