Follow The Ribbon Chords
Follow The Ribbon by Mark Knopfler is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, Em, A, C, F#m and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
D G D G Em G D G D G
D G D G Em G D G D G
D
Verso 1:
D
The day's been a while fading
Seems like we have slowed
G
My eyes are getting weary
D
Can barely see the road
Been a while since we left behind the city lights
A D G A
There's just a line winding through the night
Verso 2:
D
Yesterday's lie scattered
Like broken swords and shields
G
Like the used up shells and bullets
D
On a hundred battlefields
D
When, I think of all the close calls
Both sides of love and death
A D
Sometimes I can hardly get my breath
G A D
But I'll follow the ribbon anyhow
G
I'll follow the ribbon
A
That's all right for now
D C
Up in the high country
G D G
Or down where the river flows
Wherever it goes
D G D G Em G D G D G
D D G G D D D D A D
Ponte:
G
Don't care if they like it
F#m
Don't care if they don't
G
Never did much care about
F#m
If they will or won't
G
If all you want to know is acorns
F#m
Rootin' me a patch of earth
E7
What can you praise
A
That's really any worth
Verso 3:
D
I'm just living with the ringing
Of tomorrow's ancient rhymes
G
The road ahead may be shorter
D
Than the one we left behind
D
If there's whiskey in the bottle
Leave some for me
A D
I'll get to it, eventually
G
I'll follow the ribbon
A D
By the cold lagoon
G
Follow the ribbon
A
Under the helpless moon
D C
Winding through the dark hills
G D G
Where a million stars a-falls
D
Wherever it goes
D G D G Em G D G D G