Bad Day For A Knife Thrower chords by Mark Knopfler

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:

E minorEm E MajorE E minorEm E MajorE
E minorEm E MajorE E minorEm E MajorE
B minorBm


🎸 Verse 1:
B minorBm
Rain’s like thunder on the canvas
                A#A#
It’s been coming down hard all day
        F minorFm
You’ll get the wea ther
    E MajorE
And the people all staying away
    B minorBm
On the old showground

On the edge of town
    A#A#
And the wind buffeting the van
     F minorFm
Well, whatever
 E MajorE
I still don’t have a plan

🎸 Chorus:
A#m7A#m7         A#A#
  Tried to call you once or twice
E MajorE
 Drawing a blank
B minorBm       A#A#
 That thing we talked about
 E MajorE        A#mA#m
I need to see it in the bank
E MajorE             E MajorE
Sitting like a dud in the fairground mud
A#mA#m      E MajorE
Everything is slower
      F#F#   E MajorE
It’s been a bad day
   Bb majorBb  E MajorE
For a knife thrower


🎸 Instrumental:
B minorBm A#A# F minorFm E MajorE B minorBm
Bm G minorGm B minorBm G minorGm
B minorBm A#A# F minorFm E MajorE B minorBm
Bm G minorGm B minorBm

🎸 Verse 2:
     B minorBm
It was a pound a round in ‘64
             A#A#
With all us kids to feed
       F minorFm
They stuck together
    E MajorE
For whatever it was we’d need
G minorGm
Truth is he was flying
    A#A#
On one enginе all the time
      F minorFm
Out on the racеcourse
     E MajorE
He knew a bookie in disorganised crime


🎸 Chorus:
    A#m7A#m7        A#A#
When he couldn’t pick up a payday
E MajorE
 Or anything else
   B minorBm
He’d have to come through
    A#A#
With a tenner or two
E MajorE         A#mA#m
Have a little bet against himself
E MajorE             E MajorE
Sitting like a dud in the fairground mud
A#mA#m        E MajorE
Feel I’m sinking lower
      F#F#   E MajorE
It’s been a bad day
   Bb majorBb  E MajorE
For a knife thrower


🎸 Instrumental:
B minorBm A#A# F minorFm E MajorE
B minorBm A#A# F minorFm A#mA#m


🎸 Outro:
E MajorE             E MajorE
Sitting like a dud in the fairground mud
A#mA#m        E MajorE
Feel I’m sinking lower
      F#F#   E MajorE
It’s been a bad day
   Bb majorBb  E MajorE
For a knife thrower


B minorBm A#A# F minorFm E MajorE B minorBm
Bm G minorGm B minorBm G minorGm
B minorBm A#A# F minorFm E MajorE B minorBm
Bm G minorGm B minorBm
Bm A#A# F minorFm E MajorE B minorBm
Bm G minorGm B minorBm G minorGm
B minorBm A#A# F minorFm E MajorE B minorBm
Bm G minorGm B minorBm
Bm A#A# F minorFm E MajorE B minorBm
Bm G minorGm B minorBm G minorGm