Let It All Go
Mark Knopfler
[Intro]
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Depending on the part of the song use both open chords and barre chords,
in chorus go D C as barre chords and to Em etc as opened.
Here's a fill 1 in chorus when it goes
D C Em
So go, forget it, let it all go
D
let it all go
on that D chord MK plays a lick like this:
Fill1
e--2h3p2--------------
B--------5-3----------
G---------------------
And on C in chorus he plays over C chord going to D
D C D
Go, forget it, let it all go
Fill2
e-------------------------
B---3h5p3--------------------
G----------5--2-------------
on change between C to Bm to C he plays a fill3
Bm C fill3 Bm
as though I’m a saint
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B---2h3p2----------
G----------4-2-----
D------------------
D C
When it’s pop goes the weasel
G D
let go of the easel
D
You don’t want
C G D
this rickety rackety life
D C
It’s seat of the trousers
G D
It’s all sink or swim, son
C
I’d kill to get crimson
G D
on this palette knife
Em
And I’d steal in a minute
C
I’m up to here in it
Em
You here behaving
Bm C fill3 Bm
as though I’m a saint
D C
Get a job with a pension
G D
Don’t ever mention
C
you once had a craving
G D
for the brushes and paint
D C Em
So go, forget it, let it all go
D fill1 G
let it all go
D C fill2 D
Go, forget it, let it all go
C Em
Go, forget it, let it all go
D fill1 G
let it all go
D C
Go, forget it, let it all go
Bm
Let it all go
Intro lick
D C
A hack writer judges
G D
my swipes and my smudges
D C
he doesn’t like pictures
G D
with blotches and blots
D C
The drawing room tea set
G D
wants horses, sunsets
C
sweet nothings -
G D
the seaside with yachts
Em
Here’s the end of the thirties
C
no time for arties
Em
over in Poland
Bm C fill3 Bm
a right old to-do
D C
So go join the navy
G D
the air force or the army
C
They’ll all be enrolling
G D
young fellows like you
D C Em
So go, forget it, let it all go
D fill1 G
let it all go
D C fill2 D
Go, forget it, let it all go
C Em
Go, forget it, let it all go
D fill1 G
let it all go
D C
Go, forget it, let it all go
Bm
Let it all go
Intro lick
D C
These are not my decisions
G D
To have all these visions
C
ringing expressions
G D
the clamouring voice
D C
It’s volcanic desire
G D
the unquenchable fire
C
It isn’t a question
G D
of having the choice
Em
Anyway, now I’m old
C
but if you won’t be told
Em
if you’ve been created
Bm C fill3 Bm
to answer the call
D C
all passion and lust
G D
is going to end in the dust
D
but you’ll hang on some
C G D
government gallery wall
D C Em
You must go, forget it, let it all go
D fill1 G
let it all go
D C fill2 D
Go, forget it, let it all go
C Em
Go, forget it, let it all go
D fill1 G
let it all go
D C
Go, forget it, let it all go
Bm
Let it all go
play Intro and end on D
