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Pogues-Dirty Old Town - BPM - 85

Harmonica is
Vocal Patches - - -
[Intro - BPM 120 - No drums - Free time sort of feel]
Chords
 D                                  G               D          Em          Bm

E --0-2-------02-----x--------2-5---7---5-2--0------2-------0-2-0-----0-----2----
B -3--3------3------33--------3-----x---x---------3!3------3----0------3-0--3
G 2---2--------------2--------2-----0---0-----------2-----------0-----------4
D ----0--------------0--------0-----0---0-----------0-----------2-----------4
A ----------------------------------x---x-----------------------2-----------2
E ----------------------------------3---3*----------------------0------------
* - fret with 2nd figure so can hold Gmaj and play higher lines
! - fret with 3rd finger to hold to go straight from G to D 
 
[D] [D] [D] [D]   
[G] [G] [D] [D]   
[Em][Em][Bm][Bm]
  
[Verse 1 - Drums in] (key change) 
I met my [G] love by the gas works [G] wall ...............
Dreamed a [C] dream by the old ca [G] nal ...............
I kissed my [G] girl by the factory [G] wall ...............
Dirty old [D] town, dirty old [Em] town
  
[Verse 2] 
Clouds are [G] drif.........ting across the moon
Cats are [C] prowl........ing on their [G] beat
Springs a [G] girl .........from the streets at night
Dirty old [D] town, dirty old [Em] town
  
[Instrumental] (key change) 
[C][C][C][C] 
[F][F][C][C] 
[C][C][C][C]
[G][G][Am][Am]

Ch     C                               F              C
E -----0---------0------x--------0-3---5---x*--x------x---
B -1-3-1------1-3-----1-1--------1-----6---8-5(5)---5-5---
G 0----0----------------0--------0-----5--(5)----7--5-5---
D -----2----------------2--------2-----7--(5)-------5-5---
A -----3----------------3--------3-----8---x----------7---
E -----------------------------------------x----------8---

Ch     C                               G        Am
E -----0---------0------x--------0---0-x--------0----------
B -1-3-1------1-3-----1-1--------1-3---3--3-1---1-----------
G 0----0----------------0--------0-----0------2-2----------
D -----2----------------2--------2-----0--------2---------
A -----3----------------3--------3-----x--------0---------
E -------------------------------------3!-----------------
* kind of holding a barre across all 5 frets to make fuller sound but don't ring high and low notes
! play G with just 3rd and 4th finger so can use 4th finger to play pull off to 
  
[Verse 3] (key change) 
I heard a [G] siren from the [G] docks
Saw a [C] train set the night on [G] fire
I smelled the [G] spring on the smoky [G] wind
Dirty old [D] town, dirty old [Em] town
  
[Verse 4] 
I'm gonna [G] make ............ me a big sharp [G] axe
Shining  [C] steel.......... tempered in the [G] fire
I'll chop you [G] down like an old dead [G] tree
Dirty old [D] town, dirty old [Em] town
  
[Verse 5 - Quiet - no drums] 
I met my [G] love by the gas works [G] wall ...............
Dreamed a [C] dream by the old ca [G] nal ...............
I kissed my [G] girl by the factory [G] wall ...............
Dirty old [D] town, dirty old [Em] town
Dirty old [D] town, dirty old [Em]town(stop)

[End]

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Dire Straits-Brothers In Arms - BPM - 85

Harmonica is -
Vocal Patches - - -
[Intro:] 
[G#m]   [E]   [C#m]   [E] 
[G#m]   [E]   [C#m]   [C#m]

[G#m] [G#m] [G#m] 
 
[Verse]
These [F#] mist covered 
[E] moun- [F#] tains   Are home now for 
[B] me [Bsus4 - B]   But my [D#m/A#] home is the 
[G#m] low [D#m] lands  And always will 
[E] be       [F#sus4]  Some- day you'll re- 
[G#m] turn [D#m] to  Your valley and your 
[E] farms ([C#m] [F#sus4]) And you'll [F#] no longer 
[G#m] burn To be
[E] brothers in [F#sus4] arms [F#]
 
[G#m]   [E]   [C#m]  ([E] - [F#])
[G#m]   [E]   [C#sus2]  [C#sus2]
[G#m]
 
Through these [F#] fields of de- 
[E] struc- [F#] tion   Baptisms of 
[B] fire [Bsus4 – B]   I've [D#m/A#] watched all your 
[G#m] suffe- [D#m] ring  As the battles raged 
[E] higher [F#sus4]   And though they did hurt 
[G#m] me so [D#m] bad  In the fear and a- 
[E] larm ([C#m] [F#sus4])  You did not de- 
[G#m] sert me My
[E] brothers in [F#] arms
 
[G#m]   [E]   [C#m]   [E]
[G#m]   [E]   [C#sus2]  [C#sus2]
[G#m]
 
There's so [F#] many different [G#m] worlds 
[F#]     So [B] many different 
[E] suns [F#sus4]  And [F#] we have just one 
[G#m] world [F#]  But we 
[B] live in different [E] ones
 
[G#m]   [E]   [C#m]   [E]
[G#m]   [E]   [C#m]   [C#m]
[G#m]   [E]   [C#m]   ([E] - [F#]) 
[G#m]   [E]   [C#sus2]  [C#sus2]
 
[G#m]
 
Now the sun's gone to 
[E] hell [F#]   And the moon's riding 
[B] high [Bsus4 – B]  Let me [D#m/A#] bid your fare- 
[G#m] well [D#m]   Everyman has to 
[E] die [F#sus4]  But its [F#] written in the 
[G#m] star- [D#m] light  And every line on your 
[E] palm ([C#m] [F#sus4])  We're [F#] fools to make 
[G#m] war On our
[E] brothers in [F#sus4] arms [F#]
 
[G#m]   [E]   [C#m]   [E]
[G#m]   [E]   [C#m]   [C#m]  
[G#m]   [E]   [C#m]   ([E] - [F#]) 
[G#m]   [E]   [C#sus2]  [C#sus2]
 
repeat these 8 bars 5 times while fading during 5th.
 
chords:
C#sus2 x46644
D#m/A x1434x
D#m x68876
F#sus4 224422

Spare 
G#m - E - C#m - E - F# - G#m - E - C#sus2

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