What It Is

What It Is: Chords

Intro:
FA#m    LA RE  MI  FA#m     RE  MI

FA#m    RE/FA# MI/FA#  FA#m    RE/FA# MI/FA#

FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI  FA#m      RE  MI

FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI  FA#m      RE  MI

FA#m        
The drinking dens are spilling out
        LA
There's staggering in the square
        RE
There's lads and lasses falling about
      LA        MI
And a crackling in the air
FA#m
 Down around the dungeon doors
    LA
The shelters and the queues
RE         
 Everybody's looking for
    LA/DO#         MI
Somebody's arms to fall into
         FA#m       LA/DO#  RE  MI
And it's what it is
          FA#m         RE  MI
It's what it is now

        FA#m  
There's frost on the graves and the monuments
        LA
But the taverns are warm in town
RE
 People curse the government
   LA      MI
And shovel hot food down
    FA#m
The lights are out in city hall
    LA
The castle and the keep
    RE
The moon shines down upon it all
    LA          MI
The legless and asleep
        RE
And it's cold on the tollgate
         LA
With the wagons creeping through
RE
 Cold on the tollgate
    LA                 MI
God knows what I could do with you
         FA#m       LA/DO#  RE  MI
And it's what it is
          FA#m         RE  MI
It's what it is now

    FA#m
The garrison sleeps in the citadel
         LA
With the ghosts and the ancient stones
RE
 High up on the parapet
  LA             MI
A Scottish piper stands alone
FA#m
 And high on the wind
             LA
The highland drums begin to roll
RE
 And something from the past just comes
    LA/DO#     MI
And stares into my soul
RE
 And it's cold on the tollgate
         LA
With the Caledonian blues
RE
 Cold on the tollgate
    LA/DO#             MI
God knows what I could do with you

         FA#m       LA/DO#  RE  MI
And it's what it is
          FA#m         RE  MI
It's what it is now
         FA#m       LA/DO#  RE  MI
And it's what it is
          FA#m         RE  MI
It's what it is now

FA#m      LA      RE      LA   MI

FA#m      LA      RE      LA   MI

FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI  FA#m      RE  MI

FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI  FA#m      RE  MI

          FA#m
There's a chink of light, there's a burning wick
          LA
There's a lantern in the tower
RE
Wee Willie Winkie with a candlestick
      LA/DO#               MI
Still writing songs in the wee wee hours
   FA#m
On Charlotte Street I take
          LA
A walking stick from my hotel
RE
 The ghost of Dirty Dick
   LA                 MI
Is still in search of Little Nell

         FA#m          RE  MI
And it's what it is
          FA#m         RE  MI
It's what it is now
                FA#m      RE  MI
Oh it's what it is
           FA#m           RE  MI
What it is now, now, now

FA#m      RE  MI  FA#m      RE  MI

FA#m      RE  MI  FA#m      RE  MI

FA#m      RE  MI  FA#m      RE  MI

FA#m      RE  MI  FA#m      RE  MI

FA#m      RE  MI  FA#m      RE  MI

FA#m      RE  MI  FA#m      RE  MI

FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI  FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI

FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI  FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI

FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI  FA#m      RE  MI

FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI  FA#m      RE  MI

FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI  FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI

FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI  FA#m  LA/DO#  RE  MI

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Rock Italiano

What It Is è un brano scritto e interpretato da Mark Knopfler, contenuto nell'album Sailing to Philadelphia pubblicato nel 2000. Si tratta del secondo disco da solista per il grande chitarrista britannico, rivelatosi il suo apice commerciale dopo la sua uscita dai Dire Straits, con oltre 2 milioni di copie vendute in Europa. La canzone è la principale artefice di tale successo: traccia d'apertura dell'album, è un'elegante ballata folk-rock ambientata nella città scozzese di Edimburgo.

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L'autore del post

Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).