Mark Knopfler OBE Order of the British Empire (born 12 August 1949) is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer.
Mark Knopfler is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the British rock rock music band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977 with his brother David David Knopfler . After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler continued to record and produce albums as a... [read more] - Je Suis Désol
We are leaving, leavingLeaving on the tideCome and stand beside me loveThe water is so wideYou can hear the sailors callingAt the dawning of the dayYesterday is falling, loveAnd je suis désolé, je suis désoléJe...
- IMELDA
She's going shopping for shoesShe wants them in magenta and Caribbean bluePlatinum and buttercup lilac and blackThey fill a bucket up and laugh behind her backImelda baby Imelda baby what to doAll the poor people...
- Calling Elvis
Calling Elvis - is anybody homeCalling Elvis - I'm here all aloneDid he leave the buildingOr can he come to the phoneCalling Elvis - I'm here all aloneWell tell him I was calling just to wish him wellLet me leave my...
- I'M THE FOOL
I never thought I'd be the oneTo be the raging bullThere'd always be a smoking gunWho'd up and lose his coolI never thought I'd have to sayI'm sorry, my love, becauseI'm the fool I neverFool I never thought I was I...
- One More Matinee
Mark Knopfler - One More MatineeHere's one of the two of usIn 1954 don't laughI keep all of the picturesAre you going to take a photographHere's something nice for youA dear old thing came to a showLast time here we...
- Rüdiger
Mark Knopfler - RüdigerRüdiger stands in the rain and the snowCollector of autographsNames upon photographsFaces of people who everyone knowsRüdiger lives in a place on his ownBriefcase and spectaclesStrange and...
- Two Skinny Kids
The Everly Brothers are back in town my friend Will they ever be, they may never be back again First time around They all loved their sound They're back in town my friend Their daddy took them to the county fair...
- Nobody's Got The Gun
Mark Knopfler - Nobody's Got The GunNobody's got the gunNobody's trying to get the drop on anyoneNobody's standing out on main streetWith the sun blazing downSaying "There's only room for one of usIn this here...
- No Can Do
Mark Knopfler - No Can DoSkint in a material worldI did a warehouse stint for southsea girlIt was Hong Kong clothes for cashEverybody got treated worse than trashPunch the card in the company clockLoad the trolleys...
- Brothers In Arms
These mist covered mountainsAre a home now for meBut my home is the lowlandsAnd always will beSome day you'll return toYour valleys and your farmsAnd you'll no longer burnTo be brothers in armsThrough these fields of...
- GOLDEN HEART
She was swinging by the bangles in a main street storeA while before we metThe most dangerous angels that you ever sawShe spied her amulet And she took a loop of leather for around her neckAnd that was then the...
- Romeo And Juliet
A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenadeLaying everybody low with a lovesong that he madeFinds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shadeSays something like you and me babe how about it?Juliet says hey it's...
- Walk Of Life
Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldiesBe-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I SayHere comes Johnny singing I Gotta WomanDown in the tunnels, trying to make it payHe got the action, he got the motionYeah the boy can...
- GRAVY TRAIN
Well they fly past the ghettos and the factoriesRidin' on the Gravy TrainLeaving all the places that they really ought to braveRidin' on the Gravy TrainPast the coal mines black and scarredStarter houses in the...
- DONE WITH BONAPARTE
We've paid in hell since Moscow burnedAs Cossacks tear us piece by pieceOur dead are strewn a hundred leaguesThough death would be a sweet releaseAnd our grande arm¨¦e is dressed in ragsA frozen starving beggar...
- R¨¹diger
R¨¹diger stands in the rain and the snowCollector of autographsNames upon photographsFaces of people who everyone knowsR¨¹diger lives in a place on his ownBriefcase and spectaclesStrange and respectableHe knows...
- CANNIBALS
Well he's daddy's little boy he plays with his toysHe holds on to his daddy's handHis daddy says Sonny you're a big strong boyYou're gonna be a big strong manAnd they go play catch they go play ballThey go take a walk...
- DARLING PRETTY
It's time to come away, my Darling PrettyIt's time to come away on the changing tideTime to come away, Darling PrettyAnd I need you darling by my side Heal me with a smile, Darling PrettyHeal me with a smile and a...
- Money For Nothing
(Mark Knopfler & Sting) Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do itYou play the guitar on the MTVThat ain't workin' that's the way you do itMoney for nothin' and chicks for freeNow that ain't workin' that's the...
- Don't Crash The Ambulance
don't often open up this floorsince i handed in my gunwhat all these keys are fornow my tour of duty's done you got to know the switchesnow you got your turnwatch and learn, juniorwatch and learn now you will get your...
- Whoop De Doo
if i'm over the moonit's because i'm over youa day at a timeand i'm tickety-booi don't carry onthe way i used towhoop de doo whoop de doo if i'm doing greatit's because when i get homei don't go straightto my...
- Our Shangri-La
it's the end of a perfect dayfor surfer boys and girlsthe sun's dropping down in the bayand falling off the world there's a diamond in the skyour evening star in our shangri-la get that fire burning strongright here...
- 5.15 Am
5.15 a.m. snow laying all around a collier cycles home from his night shift underground past the silent pub primary school, workingmens club on the road from the pithead the churchyard packed with mining dead then...
- The Trawlerman's Song
we're taking on water diesel and storeslaying up awhile before i'm back on boardthey're patching her up to go fishing again they're welding her rudder scrubbing her keelscars on her belly need time to healin the dock...
- Boom, Like That
i'm going to san bernardino ring-a-ding-dingmilkshake mixers that's my thing, nowthese guys bought a heap of my stuffand i gotta see a good thing sure enough, nowor my name's not kroc that's kroc with a 'k'like...
- Sucker Row
somebody's gotta crack a whip around herewho's minding the store?shake it up sell some beerwhat's your money maker for?pay daywe're packin' 'em insix-gun annie and buffalo jillbut who's to say they'll be back againfor...
- All That Matters
my darling girl my darling girlyou're all that matters in this wicked worldall that matters all that matters my darling boy my darling boyall of my sunshine and all of my joyyou're all that matters all that matters...
- Song For Sonny Liston
so many mouths to feed on the farmsonny was the second to the last one bornhis mamma ran away and his daddy beat him badand he grew up wild good love he never had he had a left like henry's hammera right like betty...
- Donegan's Gone
donegan's gone, lonnie donegan donegan's gonegone, lonnie donegan donegan's goneplay that big grand coulee damnobody loves like an irishmangone, lonnie donegan donegan's gone donegan's gone, lonnie donegan donegan's...
- Back To Tupelo
around the time of 'clambake'movie number twenty-fiveyou and the lying dutchmanare still in overdriveyou're as strong as when you startedmississippi in your soulyou can still be marlon brandoand the king of rock and...
- Stand Up Guy
brew the coffee in a bucketdouble straight man and banjoif you don't got the snake oilbuster, you don't got a showwho puts the doh-re-mein our pocketskeeps the party going on?it's the manwho sells the potionsi'm just...
- Everybody Pays
i got shot off my horse so what? i'm up againand playing in one of these big saloons on mainyou can come up here take a look around these sinners'densyou're only ever going to find one or two real games nobody's...
- Postcards From Paraguay
one thing was leading to the nexti bit off more than i could chewi had the power to sign the chequesit wasn't difficult to doi couldn't stay and face the musicso many reasons whyi won't be sending postcardsfrom...
- Marbletown
Roll out here misterIf you need a lttle restLay me down in MarbletownA bone yard is the bestThere was a bad bull on the railroadTried to put me off his trainLay me down in Marbletown'Til the coast is clear againI can...
- Hill Farmer's Blues
I'm going into Tow LawFor what I needChain for the ripsawKiller for the weedThe dog's at the back doorLeave him beDon't feed him JackAnd don't wait up for meGoing into Tow LawTo fuel my fireShells for the twelveAnd...
- The Ragpicker's Dream
When Jack Frost came for ChristmasWith a brass monkey dateThe rail-king and the scarecrowHopped a florlda freightAnd they blew on their paper cupsAnd stared through the steamThen they drank half a bottleOf ragpicker's...
- Daddy's Gone To Knoxville
Oh, you're gonna miss your daddy when he's goneWhen he's goneYeah, you're gonna miss your daddy when he's goneWhen he's goneDaddy's gone down that Gallatin roadThe hen never laid and the corn never growedOh, you're...
- Coyote
Look at me coyoteDon't let a little road dust put you offYou can't judge a bookWell you know that stuffThere's a tear in my upholsteryAnd a hole in my shoeBut don't you just wish that you couldMake half of the speed I...
- A Place Where We Used To Live
This empty kitchen's whereI'd while away the hoursJust next to my old chairYou'd usually have some flowersThe shelves of booksEven the picture hooksEverything is goneBut my heart is hanging onIf this old...
- Fare Thee Well Northumberland
Come drive me down to the central stationI hate to leave my River TyneFor some damn town that's god-forsakenFare thee well, NorthumberlandAlthough I'll go where the lady takes meShe'll never tell what's in her handI...
- Devil Baby
The freaks'll stay togetherThey're a tight old crewYou look at themAnd they look at youI love the ballyhoo girlBut she don't careIt's hard to find love anywhereHard to find love anywhereThe professor is the talkerHe's...
- Why Aye Man
We had no way of staying afloatWe had to leave on the ferry boatEconomic refugeesOn the run to germanyWe had the back of maggie's handTimes were tough in geordielandWe got wor tools and working gearAnd humped it all...
- Quality Shoe
You got your toecaps reinforced with steelHard-wearing sole and heelMake those tired feet feel like newTake your pick, black or brownGreat for the country or the man in townYou're gonna need a quality shoeYou don't...
- You Don't Know You're Born
What do you know about the hammer and the spikeWhat do you know about the farmYou don't knowYou don't know what it's likeBecause you don't knowYou don't know you're bornWhat do you know about the hammer and the...
- Old Pigweed
Everything was in thereThat you'd want to seeCorned beef and onionsAnd true loveTurnips and tinned tomatoesParsnips and a few potatoesA couple extra blessingsFrom aboveNow this here mingle-mangleWas my best one yetA...
- Heart Full Of Holes
You can tell me your troublesI'll listen for freeMy regulars trust me, it seemsYou can come and see UncleTo get through the weekLeave your pledges with me to redeemSome folk sell their bodiesFor ten bob a...
- Let It All Go
When it's pop goes the weasellet go of the easelYou don't wantthis rickety rackety life.It's seat of the trousersIt's all sink or swim, sonI'd kill to get crimsonon this palette knife.And I'd steal in a minuteI'm up...
- The Fish And The Bird
When I gave my heartto a tinker boyhe said a fish could love a swallowAnd I will go with my travelling manWherever he goes I will follow.He will mendyour pots and pansYour kitchen knives he'll take and sharpenThen...
- The Scaffolder's Wife
The scaffolder's wifeDriving out of the yardWith a face that's as hardAs a scaffolder's bar -When she goes into townShe might take the top downOn the carThe quick little stepsIn the stiletto bootsAnd the hair with the...
- Madame Geneva's
I'm a maker of ballads right prettyI write theme right here in the streetYou can buy theme all over the cityyours for a penny a sheetI'm a word pecker out of the printersout of the dens of Gin LaneI'll write up a...
- Punish The Monkey
They're driving long nails into coffinsYou've been having sleepless nightsYou've gone as quiet as a church mouseand checking on your rightsThe boss has hung you out to dryAnd it looks as thoughthey'll punish the...
- True Love Will Never Find
True love will never fadeTrue love will never fadeTrue love will never fadeTrue love will never fadeTrue love will never fadeI wonder if there's no foreverNo walking hand in handDown a yellow brick roadTo never never...
- Behind With The Rent
This didn't used to be me, old boyThis isn't what I'd wantpulling old night fightersin a restaurant.There's smoke and flames behind mewhere the self-respect all wentand I'm behind, behindwith the rent.I've been...
- In The Sky
Are you home from the sea, my soul balladeerYou've been away roaming far away from hereWeathered a storm, your heart unafraidCrossed every ocean in the boat that you madeBeen blowing your horn, scaring the spooksNo...
- We Can Get Wild
We're old enough for leaving home,The old joanna and the old trombone,It's all going on,I'm growing my sideboards long,Hey you and meCan be who we want to be.Listen now right here,It's going to be a beautiful...
- ARE WE IN TROUBLE NOW
It wasn't just the musicIt wasn't just the wineSome other kind of magicWas sending up my spineThen I was fallingAnd I fell for you, and howDarling, are we in trouble now They say we're grown upBut we've been searching...
- A NIGHT IN SUMMER LONG AGO
- Speedway At Nazareth
After two thousand came two thousand and oneTo be the new champions we were there for to runFrom springtime in Arizona 'til the fall in MontereyAnd the raceways were the battlefields and we fought 'em all the wayWas...
- Who's Your Baby Now
The rock you stood uponIs broken up and goneHey baby, who's your baby nowOn the slipway of your dreamStands someone else's schemeHey baby, who's your baby nowYour baby now, baby nowYour baby now, your baby nowThe...
- Wanderlust
Big black cloudOn a yellow plainSure enough itLooks like rainPackin' up all ourFaith and trustMe and the wanderlustOpen windowEmpty bed and chairWho's that callin'Ain't nobody thereI look behind meAnd I see there's...
- Silvertown Blues
On Silvertown Way, the cranes stand highQuiet and gray against the still of the skyThey won't quit and lay down though the action has diedThey watch the new game in town on the Blackwall sideFrom the poisinous drains...
- El Macho
Your date has gone homeNow you're left on your own sweet ownYour tough-talkin' friendSplit on you in the bitter endAnd you look like a fine thing JerryYeh you look like a fine thing JerryThey say you're a starThat's...
- Do America
Well I have been it every since I was a kid at schoolNow they love me in Newcastle and in LiverpoolI am as hard as a pistol I can't do no wrongI've been in Birmingham and Bristol to play my songTake the 777 to the...
- Junkie Doll
Turnpike Lane, Turnpike LaneYou spiked my armBut you missed the veinNow it's all goneBut the scars remainJunkie doll, I was stuck on youMy junkie dollTurnham green, Turnham greenYou took me highAs I've ever beenNow...
- Sailing To Philadelphia
I am Jeremiah DixonI am a Geordie boyA glass of wine with you, sirAnd the ladies I'll enjoyAll Durham and NorthumberlandIs measured up by my own handIt was my fate from birthTo make my mark upon the earth...He calls...
- Sands Of Nevada
These tables are hauntedBy the ghost of Las VegasTheir chips were once mountainsBut they came here to playThey could take me if they wantedBut I have nothing worth countingAnd like the sands of NevadaThey go drifting...
- Baloney Again
We don't eat in no white restaurantsWe're eating in a carBaloney again, baloney againWe don't sleep in no white hotel bedWe're sleeping in a car, baloney againYou don't strut around in these country townsYou best stay...
- What It Is
The drinking dens are spilling outThere's staggering in the squareThere's lads and lasses falling aboutAnd a crackling in the airDown around the dungeon doorsThe shelters and the queuesEverybody's looking...
- The Last Laugh
Don't you love the soundOf the last laugh my friendDon't you love the soundOf the last laugh at the endDown in the gutter with the mad old soldiersDown in the scuppers with the drunken sailorsDown in the gutter with...
- Prairie Wedding
We only knew each other by letter I went to meet her off the trainWhen the smoke had cleared and the dust was still She was standing there and speaking my nameI guarantee she looked like an angelI couldn't think of...
- TALL ORDER BABY
Well gimme a little loving in the morningI want a little loving (...)But you want to get your loving in the eveningWhen I want to get some loving in the day I tell her that I'm working in the morningI tell her that I...
- What Have I Got To Do
Now if I was to sing for youA song you never heardAnd give it to you my finest treasureWould you look at what I bring to youTurn without a wordLeave me at your gateKeep me waiting at your pleasureWhat have IWhat have...
- Tunnel Of Love
Getting crazy on the waltzers but it's the life that I chooseSing about the sixblade sing about the switchback and a torture tattooAnd I been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream and slamAnd I don't know...
- SECONDARY WALTZ
Well now the school Christmas party is comingAin't doing rugby no moreMcIntyre teaching us waltzingOut on the gymnasium floorNobody battered or bleedingNobody's tattered and tornMcIntyre's dim, loud in the gymWell,...
- Southbound Again
Southbound again I don't know if I'm going or leaving homeBoy got to be movingSeems like the boy is bound to roamSouthbound again got no money I've got no place to goThat woman's with her lover boyNever want to see...
- Setting Me Up
You say I'm the greatest bound for gloryWell the word is out and I learnedI got the latest side of the storyYou're pulling out before you get burnedWell your hands are squeezing me down to the boneI never saw you...
- VIC AND RAY
A dirty motor with London platesSitting in the gutter outside your silent gatesVic and Ray, Vic and RayVic and Ray, Vic and Ray Come to daddy baby, what is it worthCome to daddy, the scum of the crying earthVic and...
- Storybook Love
Come my love I'll tell you a tale Of a boy and girl and their love story And how he loved her oh so much And all the charms she did possess Now this did happen once upon a time When things were...
- The Way It Always Starts
It gets so dark before the dawn That's when it gets to me Before the city symphony of taxi horns That's the way it always starts, Sitting here and waiting on the beating of my heart. Last night I...
- Two Young Lovers
It was the last day of summerIt was the first of a new romanceHe walked into her on the cornerShe said, I don't danceHe said, Baby let me teach youShe said, O.K., when?He said, How can I reach you babyI'd really like...
- Sultans Of Swing
(Mark Knopfler) You get a shiver in the darkIt's raining in the park but meantimeSouth of the river you stop and you hold everythingA band is blowing Dixie double four timeYou feel alright when you hear that music...
- Single Handed Sailor
Two in the morning dry-dock townThe river rolls away in the nightLittle gypsy moth she's all tied downShe quiver in the wind and the lightYeah and a sailing ship is just held down in chainsFrom the lazy days of...
- Solid Rock
Well take a look at thatI made a castle in the sandSaying this is where it's at you knowCouldn't understand nowIf I realised that the chances were slimHow come I'm so surprised when the tide rolled inI wanna live on...
- Twisting By The Pool
We're going on a holiday nowGonna take a villa, a small chaletOn the Costa del MagnificoWhere the cost of living is so lowYeah, we're gonna be so neatDance to the EurobeatYeah, we're gonna be so coolTwisting by the...
- Six Blade Knife
Your six blade knife can do anything for youAnything you want it toOne blade for breaking my heartOne blade for tearing me apartYour six blade knife - do anything for youYou can take away my mind like you take away...
- The Man's Too Strong
I'm just an ageing drummer boyAnd in the wars I used to playAnd I've called the tuneTo many a torture sessionNow they say I am a war criminalAnd I'm fading awayFather please hear my confessionI have legalised...
- So Far Away
Here I am again in this mean old townAnd you're so far away from meAnd where are you when the sun goes downYou're so far away from meSo far away from meSo far I just can't seeSo far away from meYou're so far away from...
- The Next Time I'm In Town
Now it's been something seeing you againIn this time we've had to spendYou've been so good to be aroundI thank you for that special thrillKeep me going on untilThe next time I'm in townThough I won't be back here for...
- Ticket To Heaven
I can see what you're looking to findIn the smile on my faceIn my peace of mindIn my state of graceI send what I canTo the man from the ministryHe's a part of heaven's planAnd he talks to meNow I send what I can to...
- Skateaway
I seen a girl on a one way corridorStealing down a wrong way streetFor all the world like an urban toreadorShe had wheels on on her feetWell the cars do the usual dancesSame old cruise and the kerbside crawlBut the...
- The Bug
Well it's a strange old game - you learn it slowOne step forward and it's back to goYou're standing on the throttleYou're standing on the brakesIn the groove 'til you make a mistakeSometimes you're the...
- Don´t You Get It
DON´T YOU GET ITDon't you get it I don't want to buy your carDon't you get it I don't want to buy itDon't you get it I don't want to buy your carDon't you get it I don't want to buy your carCause I gotta be a free...
- Telegraph Road
A long time ago came a man on a trackWalking thirty miles with a sack on his backAnd he put down his load where he thought it was the bestHe made a home in the wildernessHe built a cabin and a winter storeAnd he...
- Camerado
Camerado, see that cloud across the sun There ainÂ’t too many places left to run There was a time when we go anywhere the wind would blow Camerado Camerado, they are fencinÂ’ off the plain I hate to hear the whistle...
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