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Dire+Straits - Money+for+nothing

From: "Rafael Andrade" 
Subject: TABS: Alanis & Dire Straits
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 05:30:43 PDT


Money for Nothing
Dire Straits
>From the album: Brothers In Arms
Transcription by Rafael Andrade (rafs@hotmail.com)

Hi! I tried to do my own version of Money For Nothing with
Tom's (modified) intro and my own chords. Check it out:

Chords:  Gm7  C    Bb   Eb   F    D    E   
       ]---------------------------------[ *on chorus play
       ]---------------------------------[ the Gm7 like:
       ]-0----5----3----3----5----7----9-[  ]-7-[
       ]-0----5----3----1----3----7----9-[  ]-5-[
       ]---------------------------------[
       ]---------------------------------[


Intro: (>s>: slide)

]------------------------------------------------
]----------6-------------------------------------
]-7-7--5-7-5--7-5-3-0--3--3>s>5-0-3>s>5-5>s>3-0--
]-5-5--5-5----5-5-5-5--3--3>s>5-0-3>s>5-5>s>3-0--
]------------------------------------------------
]------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------------------[
-------------8--------------------------------[
--7-7--5---7-7-7-5-----0--3--3>s>5-0----------[ 2
--5-5--5-8---------8-5-0--3--3>s>5-0-3>s>5-5--[ x
----------------------------------------------[
----------------------------------------------[

When you're playing the chords on verse, I sugest to play with
the same rithym of the intro, and the Bb and C above the 
"M.T.V." play just like the intro.

Gm7						     C
   Now look at them yo-yo's ...
Gm7                           Bb  C  
   You play the ....
Gm7
   That ain't workin' ...
                        D]-3->s>-5--5--[
   Money for nothin' ...
   
   (play the intro through this part:)
   Now that ain't workin' that's ...


Eb                  Bb
   We gotta install ...
Eb                  F    
   Custom ..
Gm7*
   We gotta move these re..
C                      D          E
   We gotta move these ...

Gm7                                              C
  See the little faggot with ..
Gm7                 Bb      C
  Yeah buddy that's his ...
Gm7      
  That little faggot got his ...
                            F           Gm7
  That little faggot ...

Repeat chorus, play the ...

Gm7 					C
   I shouldda learned to ...
Gm7			 Bb        C
   I shouldda learned to ...
Gm7 
   Look at that mama, she's got it ...
		F         C
   Man we could ...

   (play the intro through this part:)
   And he's up there, what's that?  ...

Repeat chorus and play the intro

Gm7 						C
   Now that ain't workin' ...
Gm7			      Bb  C	
   You play the ...
Gm7  
   That ain't workin' ...
                              F          Gm7
   Money for nothin' and ...

play the intro till the end
   Money for nothin'     chicks ....
Any corrections are quite welcome, mail me!
(or if you think that I should quit playing
guitar, mail me too!)