Dire Straits

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Dire Straits


Tom: G

Intro:  D  G  C  D  G  C  G
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   I seen a girl on a one-way corridor
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   Stealing down a wrong way street
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   For all the world like an urban toreador
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   She had the wheels on - on her feet
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   Well the cars do the usual dances
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   Same old cruise and the kerbside crawl
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   But the rollergirl she's taking chances
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   They just love to see her take them all

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           No fears alone at night
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           She's sailing through the crowd
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           In her ears the phones are so tight
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           And the music's playing loud

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              Hallelujah
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   Here she comes queen rollerball
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   Enchante what can I say
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   I don't care      at all
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   You know she used to have to wait around
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   She used to be the lonely one
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   But now that she can skate around the town
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   She's the only one   only one

                A            G
           No fears alone at night
                 Em/B                G
           She's sailing through the crowd
        A                  C
           In her ears the phones are so tight
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           And the music's playing loud

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           She get's rock  n roll
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           A rock 'n roll station
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           And a rock n roll dream
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           She's making movies
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           On location
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           She don't know what it means

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           But the music make her wanna be the story
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           And the story was whatever was the song what it was
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           Rollergirl
        Am
           Don't worry
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           D.J. play the movies
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           All night long
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           All night long

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   She tortures taxi drivers just for fun
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   She like to read their lips
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   Says: "Toro, toro, taxi - see 'ya tomorrow my son"
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   She just let a big truck    graze her hip
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   She got her own world in the city - yeah!
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   you can't intrude on her, no - no, no
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   She got her own world in the city
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   Cos' the city's bein' so rude to her

        A            G
           No fears alone at night
                 Em/B                G
           She's sailing through the crowd
        A                  C
           In her ears the phones are so tight
                   C               D
           And the music's playing loud

        C      D     Gsus4 G     Gsus4
           She get's rock  n roll
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           A rock 'n roll station
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           And a rock n roll dream
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           She's making movies
        Am              G/D
           On location
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           She don't know what it means

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           But the music make her wanna be the story
           D       Em
           And the story was whatever was the song what it was
        C            G/B
           Rollergirl
        Am
           Don't worry
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           D.J. play the movies
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           All night long
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           All night long

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   Slippin' and a-slidin'
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   Yeah, life's a roller ball
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   Slippin' and a-slidin'
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   Skateaway  -  that's all

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   Skateaway
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   Shala shalay, hey hey, skateaway
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   Now shala shalay, skateaway
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   She's singin' shala shalay, hey hey
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   Skateaway