• Song:

    Deportee

  • Artist:

    Elvis Costello

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From: wvaughan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William Vaughan)
Subject: CRD's Elvis Costello - Deportee (acoustic)


Deportee (acoustic)
Elvis Costello
From the "Goodbye Cruel World" Ryko reissue

C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)            AmIn (x02210@1)the Arrivderci Roma nightclub bar and grill

F (133211@1)                        CStanding (x32010@1)in the fiberglass ruins

         G (320003@1)  F (133211@1)   BbWatching (x1333x@1)time stand still

C (x32010@1)               GAll (320003@1)your troubles you confess

   G/B (143121@7)            CTo (x32010@1)another faceless backless dress

C (x32010@1)              G/BSchnaps, (143121@7)cianti, porter and ouzo

Am (x02210@1)   Am/G (302210@1) Am/F# (202210@1)   D7 (xx0212@1)     FPerond (133211@1)vodka, sambuca I love you so

      CDeportee (x32010@1)
G (320003@1)                    GThere's (320003@1)a tatty beauty talkin in riddles

Am (x02210@1)       Am/G (302210@1)   Am/F# (202210@1)D7 (xx0212@1) FRome (133211@1)burns down and every..body fiddles

      CDeportee (x32010@1)
      F (133211@1)                    C (x32010@1)              DmBut (xx0231@1)a thousand dollars won't buy you a Yankee wife unless

          F (133211@1)               C (x32010@1)             G (320003@1)     F (133211@1)    BbThere's (x1333x@1)a thousand years of history drowned in this chaser glass

    C (x32010@1)             GAnd (320003@1)now I wish that she was mine

  Am (x02210@1)       Am/G (302210@1) Am/F# (202210@1)D7 (xx0212@1) FI (133211@1)could have been a king in 6/8 time

      CDeportee (x32010@1)      Am (x02210@1)                    D (xx0232@1) AmIts (x02210@1)a brittle charm but she's had enough

                         D (xx0232@1)            GStill (320003@1)she wrote her name upon his paper cuff

        C (x32010@1)                                   GAnd (320003@1)you don't know where to start or where to stop

         C (x32010@1)                    F7All (131241@1)this pillow talk is nothing more than

D7 (xx0212@1)            G (320003@1)   G/F (120003@1)G/E (020003@1)G/D (4x3121@7)(on Dstring) (xx0232@1)Finally talking shop

G (320003@1)    C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)              AmWhen (x02210@1)I came here tonight my pockets were overflowing

     F (133211@1)            C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)name="chord_133211@1">F   BbThey (x1333x@1)took my return ticket without me even knowing

     C (x32010@1)                    GSo (320003@1)I pray to the saints and all the maytrs

        G/B (143121@7)          CFor (x32010@1)the secret life of Frank Sinarta

C (x32010@1)                                   FBut (133211@1)none of these things ever come to pass

   Am (x02210@1)    Am/G (302210@1)  Am/F# (202210@1)name="chord_xx0212@1">D7      FIn (133211@1)America the law is a piece of ass

      CDeportee (x32010@1) So its

C (x32010@1)              G/BSchnaps, (143121@7)cianti, porter and ouzo

Am (x02210@1)   Am/G (302210@1) Am/F# (202210@1)   D7 (xx0212@1)     FPerond (133211@1)vodka, sambuca I love you so

      C (x32010@1)  F (133211@1)        C (x32010@1)F (133211@1)     CDeportee (x32010@1)  Poor Deportee   Deportee

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