Mans Too Strong

Again, here's my version:

SONG: The Man's Too Strong

ARTIST: Dire Straits

ALBUM: Brothers In Arms (1985)

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(strums) Dm(strums) Dm(strums)

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---------------------------------------------------------------

I am just an aging drummer-boy, and in the wars I used to play

And I've called a tune to many a torture session.

Now they say I am a war criminal, and I'm a-fading away.

Father, please hear my confession.

I have legalized robbery and called it belief

I have run with the money, I have hid like a thief

I have rewritten history with my armies and my crooks

Invented memories, I did burn all the books

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:

Emsus2 Gm Cm

e--2- -3- -3-

B--0- -3- -1-

G--0- -3- -0-

D--2- -x- -1-

A--2- -x- -x-

E--0- -x- -x-

Jim!

jreese@leland.stanford.edu