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Dire+Straits - Money+for+nothing

From uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au!parry Sun May 10 13:12:48 PDT 1992
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From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom James Parry)
Subject: Here's my version of Money for Nothing
Message-ID: <1992May8.022937.21842@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Summary: hi
Keywords: money for nothing,dire straits
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Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 8 May 1992 02:29:37 GMT
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Here we go - here's my version of the intro to Money For Nothing,
Not so scarey after all is it ?

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|-----------6----------------------------------------------------------------|
|--7-7-5--7-5-7-5-3-3-0----7-7--3>s>5---0--3>s>5 5 5>s>3 0-------------------|
|--5-5-5--5---5-5-5-5-5----5-5--3>s>5---0--3>s>5 5 5>s>3 0-------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|-------------8--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--7-7-5--5-7-7-7-5----0--7-7-3>s>5-0----------------------------------------|
|--5-5-5-8---------8-5-0--5-5-3>s>5-0--3>s>5-5-------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

An alternate ending used in concert down here in oz, ~ 1987 towards the end of
the song.

  --> play as above until-v
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------3-2------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------3>s>5-5-5>p>3----------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------3>h>5-3>h>5----------------------|
+-------------------------------------------------------6-5-3----------------+

Have fun kiddies,
Tom.