Chords
Brothers in Arms

The song was inspired by Mark Knopflers observation of the Falklands Wars impact on returning soldiers, reflecting on the distress and brotherhood amid the conflict.

Key: E

Introduction:  C#m   G#m   E   C#m   E   G#m   E   C#m   G#m   G#m  

difficulty
hard |||||
                      E        F#maj 
These mist covered mountains
                  B    B4   B 
Are home now for me
         D#m/G#        G#m      D#m 
But my home is the low lands
                 E        F#4 
And always will be
      F#maj          G#m      D#m 
Someday you' ll return to
                       E       C#m7    F#4 
Your valleys and your farms
            F#maj         G#m 
And you' ll no longer burn
       E          F#4    F#maj 
To be brothers in arms

               F#maj         E        F#maj 
Through these fields of destruction
              B    B4  B 
Baptisms of fire
       D#m/G#         G#m       D#m 
I' ve witnessed your suffering
                       E        F#4    F#maj 
As the battle raged higher
                     G#m          D#m 
And though they did hurt me so bad
                   E      C#m      F#4 
In the fear and alarm
     F#maj        G#m 
You did not desert me
       E         F#4   F#maj 
My brothers in arms

            F#maj               G#m       B     F#maj 
There' s so many different worlds
    B                E      F#maj 
So many different suns
     F#maj                G#m      B    F#maj 
And we have just one world
         B                 E 
But we live in different ones

         F#maj             E       F#maj 
Now the sun' s gone to hell   and
                   B    B4    B 
The moon' s riding high
        D#m/G#       G#m     D#m 
Let me bid you farewell
                  E       F#maj 
Every man has to die
                          G#m       D#m 
But it' s written in the starlight
                         E     C#m     F#4 
And every line in your palm
         F#maj            G#m 
We' re fools to make war
         E            F#4   F#maj 
On our brothers in arms

   G#m   E     C#m 
(fade)