Dire Straits

The Man's Too Strong

Dire Straits


Tom: F

INTRO: 
                                         C (strums)     C (strums)
e|----------------------------------------0-------------0---------------
B|----------------------------------------1-------------1---------------
G|--------0h2-2-2-2---2-2-0--------2-0----0-------------0-------0-------
D|--0--3--------------------3-0--------2--2-------------2-----2------0--
A|----------------------------------------3----------3--3---3------1----
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
   Bb          Dm    Dm
e|--1-------------------1-------------1--------------------------
B|--3-------------------3-------------3--------------------------
G|--3-------------------2-------------2----------------0h2-2-2-2-  etc.
D|--3---------3p0---0---0----------0--0---------0h3--3-----------
A|--1-------------3--------------3-------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------------------------
 
Dm                                         C
I am just an aging drummer-boy, and in the wars I used to play
         Bb                              Dm
And I've called a tune to many a torture session.
Dm                                          C
Now they say I am a war criminal, and I'm a-fading away.
Bb
Father, please hear my confession.
 
       G                     D
I have legalized robbery and called it belief
       G                          D
I have run with the money, I have hid like a thief
       G                         D
I have rewritten history with my armies and my crooks
D        C         Am         D
Invented memories,      I did burn all the books
          Dm                                 C              Em
And I can still hear his laughter, and I can still hear his song
Emsus2                 Em                 D         C   D   C 
         The man's too big, the man's too strong
                 
C  Cm  G  Gm etc.
 
 For chords, play the Dm, D, C, Em, Am and G as open. Play the Bb in 1st
position. I play the Emsus2, Gm and Cm as: