• Song:

    Charm School

  • Artist:

    Elvis Costello

  • Album:

    Punch The Clock

Artist Related tabs and Sheet Music

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From michael@magick.net Thu May 15 17:02:23 1997
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 01:13:02 GMT
From: michael p mccullough 
To: guitar@olga.net, schnitzi@east.isx.com
Subject: TAB:CHARM SCHOOL  by ELVIS COSTELLO
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab,alt.fan.elvis.costello

Hello,

Again!

Here are a few more chord charts (not really TAB after all)
for some Elvis Costello songs.

Don't forget to use a single spaced font for this!

Please let me know if there are any errors, corrections, and so on.

Thanks,

michael
michael@magick.net

Lyrics from:
http://east.isx.com/~schnitzi/ec/albums.html

Chords from the songbook, mostly
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Charm School
By Elvis Costello
>From the Album: Punch the Clock

define:
Gsus4  =  XX0044
Asus4  =  X02244

INTRO:

G (320003@1)Dm (xx0231@1)G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)
GMen (320003@1)made out of monkeys
DMen (xx0232@1)made into mice
GHappy (320003@1)days are here again
    F (133211@1)                 DAnd (xx0232@1)all the drinks half price
  C (x32010@1)         Am (x02210@1)        Em (022000@1)       C (x32010@1) Em (022000@1)  B7A (x21202@1)girl with a trick and a man with a calling
Em (022000@1)                           B7Trying (x21202@1)to make a living out of your downfalling

CHORUS:

Em (022000@1)                           E7TRYING (020130@1)TO MAKE A LIVING out of anything at all
Am (x02210@1)                             FDidn't (133211@1)they teach you anything except how to be cruel
        C (x32010@1)          F (133211@1)CIn (x32010@1)that charm school


GYou (320003@1)and I as lovers
     DWere (xx0232@1)nothing but a farce
GTRYING (320003@1)TO MAKE A SILK PURSE
F (133211@1)            DOUT (xx0232@1)OF A SOW'S ARSE
C (x32010@1)         AmSaying (x02210@1)'Why don't you watch me'
Em (022000@1)            CHardly (x32010@1)speaking SOTTO VOCE

(chorus)

EmI've (022000@1)got a notion
I've got an angle
Asus4
Take your dreams and promises
And put them through the mangle
DmThey (xx0231@1)say it's hell to finance too
                           Gsus4 (3x0013@1)GAnd (320003@1)I just want to romance you

GIn (320003@1)this perpetual nightclub
DI'll (xx0232@1)be yours eternal
GThough (320003@1)the hours are long
F (133211@1)             DAnd (xx0232@1)the noise infernal
C (x32010@1)               Am (x02210@1)             EmJUST (022000@1)ONE SHAMEFUL ACT OR SOMETIMES TWO
        C (x32010@1)                  EmWE (022000@1)MAKE BELIEVE WE'RE MAKING DO

(chorus)


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