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Brothers In Arms Tab

by Dire Straits


Artist:Dire straits
Song: Brothers in Arms
Album: Sultans of Swing - The Very Best of Dire Straits

(This is the tab from the version also attached to the official music video.)

Note: This is my first tab, hope you like it.


Intro

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These mist covered mountains

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Are home now for me

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But my home is the low lands

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And always will be


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Someday you'll return to

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Your valley and your farms

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And you'll no longer burn

To Brothers in Arms

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Through these fields of destruction

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Baptisms of fire

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I've watched all your suffering

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As the battles raged higher

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And though they did hurt me so bad

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In the fear and alarm

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You did not desert me          My Brothers in Arms

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Solo (bridge):

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There's so many different worlds

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So many different suns

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And we have just one world

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But we live in different ones

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Now the sun's gone to hell

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And the moon's riding high

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Let me bid your farewell

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Every man has to die

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But its written in the starlight

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And every line on your palm

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We're fools to make war		        On our Brothers in Arms

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Note: Fade out slowly starting from *.