• Song:

    Little Palaces

  • Artist:

    Elvis Costello

  • Album:

    King of America

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Little Palaces
yarlas@psych.ucla.edu

Introduction:    Em  D  G   (3 1 4)
                 C (x32010@1) D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1) (3 1 4)
                 C (x32010@1) D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1) (3 1 4)
                 D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)Em (022000@1)(2 1 1 strum)

Em (022000@1)    D (xx0232@1)  G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)             D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)            C (x32010@1)    D (xx0232@1)          GIn (320003@1)Chocolate Town all the trains are painted brown, and the silver paper of the wrapper.
          Em (022000@1)       D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)         C (x32010@1)         D (xx0232@1)name="chord_320003@1">G
There's a dapper little man, and he wears a wax mustache
        C (x32010@1)            D (xx0232@1)   G (320003@1)           C (x32010@1)           D (xx0232@1)   GThat (320003@1)he twists with nicotine fingers as he drops his cigarette ash.
    D (xx0232@1)                                 GAnd (320003@1)someone comes and sweeps it up, and then he doffs his cap
              D (xx0232@1)                                   GAnd (320003@1)there's a rat in someone's bedroom, and they're shutting someone's trap.
            Em (022000@1)            DAnd (xx0232@1)they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces.


        Em (022000@1)             D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1)               C (x32010@1)       D (xx0232@1) GAnd (320003@1)the doors swing back and forward, from the past into the present
        C (x32010@1)        D (xx0232@1)name="chord_320003@1">G                 C (x32010@1)     D (xx0232@1)    GAnd (320003@1)the bedside crucifixion turns from wood to phosphorescent.
            D (xx0232@1)                              GAnd (320003@1)they're moving problem families from the South up to the North,
D (xx0232@1)                            GMother's (320003@1)crying over some soft soap opera divorce,
        C (x32010@1)                           F (133211@1)             DAnd (xx0232@1)you say you didn't do it, but you know you did of course,
            Em (022000@1)            DAnd (xx0232@1)they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces.


          Em (022000@1)        D (xx0232@1)name="chord_320003@1">G                     C (x32010@1)          D (xx0232@1) GIt's (320003@1)like shouting in a matchbox, filled with plasterboard and hope,
       C (x32010@1)         D (xx0232@1)    G (320003@1)            C (x32010@1)          D (xx0232@1) GLike (320003@1)a picture of  Prince William in the arms of John the Pope.
          Em (022000@1)          D (xx0232@1)name="chord_320003@1">G             C (x32010@1)     D (xx0232@1)   GThere's (320003@1)a world of good intentions, and pity in their eyes,
=A0     C (x32010@1)         D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)          D (xx0232@1)name="chord_320003@1">G
The sedated homes of England, are theirs to vandalize.


       D (xx0232@1)                         GSo (320003@1)you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,
        D (xx0232@1)                           GAnd (320003@1)you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.
         Em (022000@1)               DAnd (xx0232@1)they feel like knocking down the little palaces.

Instrumental:  Em D G  (3 1 4)
               C (x32010@1)D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1) (3 1 4)
               C (x32010@1)D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1) (3 1 4)
               D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)(4 2 2)
               Em (022000@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D G (320003@1)(3 1 4)
               C (x32010@1)D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1) (3 1 4
               C (x32010@1)D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1) (3 1 4)
               D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)Em (022000@1) (2 1 1 strum)

           Em (022000@1)       D (xx0232@1)  G (320003@1)            C (x32010@1)      D (xx0232@1)       GYou're (320003@1)the twinkle in your daddy's eye, a name you spray and scribble,
             C (x32010@1)            D (xx0232@1)   G (320003@1)           C (x32010@1)            D (xx0232@1) GYou (320003@1)made the girls all turn their heads, and in turn they made you miserable.
   Em (022000@1)        D (xx0232@1)name="chord_320003@1">G              C (x32010@1)        D (xx0232@1) GTo (320003@1)be the heir apparent, to the kingdom of the invisible.
       D (xx0232@1)                         GSo (320003@1)you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,
        D (xx0232@1)                           GAnd (320003@1)you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.
         Em (022000@1)               DAnd (xx0232@1)they feel like knocking down
          C (x32010@1)                Gyeah (320003@1)they feel like knocking down,
        Em (022000@1)               DOh (xx0232@1)they feel like knocking down the little palaces.


Repeat instrumental twice

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