Tunnel of love    (video)

 

    F ~     Bb - F                      - Bb - F - Bb

 

              Cm - Bb - Gm - F    - Bb - F - Bb

 

    Dm - C       +  Dm - Ais - C (2x)   + Dm - Ais

 

                    C                Dm        - F                                      C

1. Getting crazy on the waltzers,       but it’s the life that I choose,

     G

    sing about the sixblade, sing about the switchback

Dm

    and the torture tattoo.

                           C                   Dm             - F

    And I’ve been riding on a ghost train,

                                          C

    where the cars they scream and slam,

                                               G

    and I don’t know where I’ll be tonight,

              Dm

    but I’d always tell you where I am.

 

                    C                    Dm     - F                                               C

2. In the screaming ring of faces,        I’d seen her standing in the light,

                                            G 

    she had a ticket for  the races,

                                        Dm

    just like me she was a victim of the night.

    C                                   Dm    - F                                         C

    I put my hand upon the lever,       said let it rock and let it roll,

                                   G

    I had the one-arm-bandit fever

                       Dm

    that was an arrow through my heart and my soul. 

 

                                             Bb         - C            F                 Bb

And the big wheels keep on turning,       neon burning up above,

                 F                                                          Dm                      Bb

and I am high on the world, come on and take a low ride with me, girl,

           Dm                  - Bb    C     Dm     - Bb - C

on the tunnel of love,          yeah, love.

 

                    Dm        - F                                      C

3. It’s just a danger,        when you’re riding at your own risk,

                                                     G 

    she said you are the perfect stranger,

                    Dm                                     - C

    she said, baby, let’s keep it like this.

                    Dm             F                     C

    It’s just a cakewalk, twisting baby, step right up and say :

G                                                                           Dm

    Hey, mister, give me two, give me two, ’cause any two can play.

 

                                              Bb        - C            F                 Bb

And the big wheels keep on turning,       neon burning up above,

                 F                                                          Dm                      Bb

and I am high on the world, come on and take a low ride with me, girl,

           Dm                  - Bb   C   Dm     - Bb - C

on the tunnel of love,          oh, love.

 

                            Gm                           - Bb

+  Well, it’s been money for muscle on        another whirligig,

Gm                                    - Bb

    money for muscle, and         another girl I dig,

Gm                                  - Bb

    another hustle just to,         just to make it big,

            C

    and rock away, rock away, oh, rock away, rock away !

 

             F                                        - C          Dm

+  And girl, it looks so pretty to me,      like it always did,

Bb      C                                              F    Bb                 - C

    oh, like the Spanish City to me, when we were kids.        (2x)

 

+  F    - C - Dm     - Bb - C     - F - Bb - C (2x)

 

+  Dm - Bb - C    - Dm - Bb

 

                    C              Dm      - F                                        C

4. She took off a silver locket,       she said remember me by this,

                                            G                   Dm

    she put her hand in my pocket, I got a keepsake and a kiss.

                      C                      Dm         - F

   And in the roar of dust and diesel,

                                                         C

    I stood and watched her walk away,

G

    I could have caught up with her easy enough,

          Dm

    but something must have made me stay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                             Bb        - C             F                 Bb

And the big wheels keep on turning,       neon burning up above,

                 F                                                          Dm                      Bb

and I am high on the world, come on and take a low ride with me, girl,

           Dm                  - Bb    C     Dm     - Bb - C

on the tunnel of love,         yeah, love,

           Dm                  - Bb    C     Dm     - Bb - C

on the tunnel of love,         yeah, love.

 

                         Gm

+  And now I’m searching through these carousels

                  Bb

    and the carnival arcades,

     Gm                                                    Bb

    searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades.

         Gm                                       Bb

    In any shooting gallery where promises are made

          C

    To rock away, rock away, rock away, rock away,

              C

    from cullercoats and whitley bay out to rockaway !  - - -

 

             F                                        - C - Dm

+  And girl, it looks so pretty to me,              like it always did,

Bb C                                        - F - Bb                                 - C

    like the Spanish City to me,             when we were kids.        (2x)

 

+  F    - C - Dm     - Bb - C     - F - Bb - C (6x) ….

 

    (Dire Straits)