Artist : Mark Knopfler
Title : Devil Baby
Album : The Ragpicker’s Dream
Date: 2006-02-11 22.38
Transcribed by Viktor Ivemo
comments/corrections to:
Iv3mo_@hotmail.com
Intro: D (Dsus2)
D G
The freaks'll stay together, they're a tight old crew
A D
You look at them and they look at you
D G
I love the ballyhoo girl but she don't care
G A Bm
It's hard to find love anywhere
G A D A
Hard to find love anywhere
D G
The professor is the talker he's the talking man
A D
And if he can't clean a midway nobody can
D G
He'll get the tip on in from the midway mud
G A Bm
You gotta have the sawdust in the blood
G A D A
Gotta have the sawdust in the blood
D G
See the pig-faced man and the monkey girl
A D
Come see the big fat lady
Bm G
'Gator slim with the alligator skin
A D
Come see the devil baby
Solo: D, G, A, D, G, A, Bm, G, A, D, A
D G
Springer is the talker he's the talking man
A D
He's got the whole studio eating out of his hand
D G
You can be on too with the nuts and the geeks
G A Bm
Call 1-800-IMA FREAK
G A D A
1-800-IMA FREAK
D G
Be the pig-faced man or the monkey girl
A D
Come be the big fat lady
Bm G
'Gator slim with the alligator skin
A D
Come be the devil baby
D G
Be the pig-faced man or the monkey girl
A D
Come be the big fat lady
Bm G
'Gator slim with the alligator skin
A D
Come be the devil baby
P: Pull off
~: Que notes
S: Slide
Intro: (1st guitar plays this, 2nd guitar plays the chord)
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/mark_knopfler/devil_baby_tab.html ]
e |-----------2p0--2----------| x 4
B |--------3------------------|
G |-----2---------------------|
D |--0------------------------|
A |---------------------------|
E |---------------------------|
On almost every “Bm” and some other time Mark is playing this:
e |-----------------------------|
B |-----------------------------|
G |---(11)--9s11--11--9s7--7----|
D |-----------------------------|
A |-----------------------------|
E |-----------------------------|
The Chords
D play’s like this:
e |-------------2---------------|
B |-------------3---------------|
G |--------2-------2------------|
D |---0-~-----------------------|
A |-----------------------------|
E |-----------------------------|
G like this:
e |--------------3--------------|
B |--------------3--------------|
G |--------0--------0-----------|
D |-----------------------------|
A |-----------------------------|
E |----3-~----------------------|
A like this:
e |-----------------------------|
B |-------------2---------------|
G |-------------2---------------|
D |--------2--------2-----------|
A |----0-~----------------------|
E |-----------------------------|
And Bm like this:
e |-----------------------------|
B |--------------3--------------|
G |--------------4--------------|
D |---------4--------4----------|
A |----2-~----------------------|
E |-----------------------------|
Solo (I think the other guitar also jam’s along the solo, but i took out the
part Mr. Knopfler plays) :
e |-------------5----------------------------------------------------------|
B |-----s5---7-----8-8-8-----------8-8----8---7-7-7-----5s7----------------|
G |-----------------------------7--------------------------------(7)-------|
D |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e |------9--9----5s7~------------------------------------------------------|
B |-------------------------10p8—10s12--------10----8--7-------------------|
G |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G |---(11)--9s11--9s7--------12--11---9s7s9s7-7s11-------------------------|
D |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B |------10p8p7----------------------12------------------------------------|
G |----------------9—7s9------9s11~----------------------------------------|
D |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
