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|  Fm   Db   Eb| 2x
FmYou can hire and fire, wheel and deal
Run your streets with a fist of steel
DbBut you're small potatoes
EbStrictly nickel and Fmdime, nickel and dime
DbSmall pAbotatoesBb, sCmall time
Fm Db Eb
FmYou can raise an army on a town 
Be the rent collector, come around
DbYeah, but you're small potatoes
EbStrictly nickel and dFmime, nickel and dime
DbSmall pAbotatoesBb, sCmall time
Fm Db Ab
EbIf you take your leave Abof reality
BbYou have to believe in youEbr own publicityC  
FmBut you get yourself and agent
Hire the Albert Hall
Make like Humpty dumpty and look down on it all
DbBut you're small potatoes
EbStrictly nickel and Fmdime, nickel and dime
DbSmall pAbotatoesBb, sCmall timFme
Solo:  Fm   Db   Eb   Fm   Db   Ab   Bb   C   Fm   Db  Ab  
EbOut on the town for Abyour charities
BbHanging in around witEbh the VIPSC  
FmThey say the duke of York took his men
Marched them up a hill of beans and down again
DbHe was small potatoes
EbStrictly nickel and dimeFm, nickel and dime
DbSmall pAbotatoesBb, C  
Dbsmall pAbotatoesBb,C  
Dbsmall pAbotatoesBb, C  
small time
Fm Db Ab

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Small Potatoes

by Mark Knopfler

Lyrics & chords · Original key

Chords in this song · guitar

Fm Db Eb

| | 2x

You can hire and fire, wheel and deal

Run your streets with a fist of steel

But you're small potatoes

Eb Fm

Strictly nickel and dime, nickel and dime

Db Ab Bb C

Small potatoes, small time

Fm Db Eb

You can raise an army on a town

Be the rent collector, come around

Yeah, but you're small potatoes

Eb Fm

Strictly nickel and dime, nickel and dime

Db Ab Bb C

Small potatoes, small time

Fm Db Ab

Eb Ab

If you take your leave of reality

Bb Eb C

You have to believe in your own publicity

But you get yourself and agent

Hire the Albert Hall

Make like Humpty dumpty and look down on it all

But you're small potatoes

Eb Fm

Strictly nickel and dime, nickel and dime

Db Ab Bb C Fm

Small potatoes, small time

Fm Db Eb Fm Db Ab Bb C Fm Db Ab

Solo:

Eb Ab

Out on the town for your charities

Bb Eb C

Hanging in around with the VIPS

They say the duke of York took his men

Marched them up a hill of beans and down again

He was small potatoes

Eb Fm

Strictly nickel and dime, nickel and dime

Db Ab Bb C

Small potatoes,

Db Ab Bb C

small potatoes,

Db Ab Bb C

small potatoes,

small time

Fm Db Ab

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