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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:15:18 -0400
From: "D. W. Bennett" 
Subject: c/costello_elvis/clowntime_is_over.crd

Clowntime Is Over
(Elvis Costello from the album "Get Happy!" - Words and Music by Elvis
Costello)
Transcribed by D. W. Bennett

Intro: C (x32010@1)  F (133211@1)  C (x32010@1) Csus4 (x33010@1)name="chord_xx1114@1">Ab      G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C             FTears (133211@1)on your blackmail
Am (x02210@1)       DmWritten (xx0231@1)to ransom
C (x32010@1)            FA (133211@1)point of the fingernail
Am (x02210@1)           DmSays (xx0231@1)that he's handsome
C (x32010@1)          FClowntime (133211@1)is over
Ab (xx1114@1)         FTime (133211@1)to take cover
C (x32010@1)               FWhile (133211@1)others just talk and talk
Am (x02210@1)       Dm (xx0231@1)                            GSomebody's (320003@1)watching where the others don't walk
G (320003@1)              CClowntime (x32010@1)is over

A voice in the shadows
Says that his men know
He don't step back as expected
He's otherwise and unprotected

Chorus
C (x32010@1)        FAlmost (133211@1)too good to be true
Am (x02210@1)        DmWho (xx0231@1)do you? why do you? what do you do?
C (x32010@1)               FWhile (133211@1)everybody's hiding under covers
Am (x02210@1)                      Dm (xx0231@1)  Dm/E    Dm/F   GWho's (320003@1)making lover's lane safe again for lovers?

Chorus

I like to end with the intro followed by a sustained C12 (open C chord with a
high G added) chord.