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From michael@magick.net Thu May 15 17:02:14 1997
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 01:09:59 GMT
From: michael p mccullough 
To: guitar@olga.net, schnitzi@east.isx.com
Subject: TAB: PIDGIN ENGLISH  by ELVIS COSTELLO
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab,alt.fan.elvis.costello


Hello,

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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Pidgin English
By Elvis Costello
>From the album: Imperial Bedroom

INTRO:
D D7 G D D7 G

D (xx0232@1)                           D7 (xx0212@1)          G (320003@1)         DThere's (xx0232@1)a young girl with her old man who's too sick to mention
          D (xx0232@1)              D7 (xx0212@1)       G (320003@1)               DShe'll (xx0232@1)be turning twenty seven as she draws her widow's pension
       D (xx0232@1)              D7 (xx0212@1)           G (320003@1)               DBut (xx0232@1)he couldn't catch a common cold he couldn't get arrested
    D (xx0232@1)          D7Too (xx0212@1)terrified to answer back
    G (320003@1)              D7Too (xx0212@1)tired to have resisted
G (320003@1)             CMany (x32010@1)hands make light work
     GShorthand (320003@1)makes life easy
                 CWhen (x32010@1)he's out on night work
     GMake (320003@1)sure no one sees me
   DIt (xx0232@1)all ends up in a slanging match with body talk and bruises
  A7A (x02020@1)change is better than a rest

Silly beggars can't be choosers

CHORUS:

G (320003@1)                                DOne (xx0232@1)of a thousand pities you can't categorize
          G (320003@1)    A (x02220@1)          BmThere (x24432@1)are ten commandments of love
G (320003@1)           DWhen (xx0232@1)will you realise

There are ten commandments of love
A (x02220@1)                              G (320003@1)                Em (022000@1)      Em7
I believe, I trust, I promise, I wish love's just a throwaway kiss
DIn (xx0232@1)this Pidgin English

If you're so wise use your lips and your eyes
                          CTake (x32010@1)it to the bridge she sighs

D (xx0232@1)                D7 (xx0212@1)               G (320003@1)       DYou (xx0232@1)go cheep cheep cheep between bulls-eyes and bluster
D (xx0232@1)             D7Stiff (xx0212@1)as your poker face
G (320003@1)            DKeener (xx0232@1)than mustard
          D (xx0232@1)      D7 (xx0212@1)        G (320003@1)       D>From (xx0232@1)your own back yard to the land of exotica
         D (xx0232@1)      D7 (xx0212@1)        G (320003@1)     D7>From (xx0212@1)the truth society to neurotic erotica
G (320003@1)           CSilence (x32010@1)is golden
            GMoney (320003@1)talks diamonds and ermine
          G (320003@1)     CThere's (x32010@1)a word in Spanish
   GItalian (320003@1)and German
   DIn (xx0232@1)sign language, morse code, semaphore and gibberish
     A7Have (x02020@1)you forgotten how to say it

In your Pidgin English?

(chorus)

DPS (xx0232@1)I love you
(and so on . . . )

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