• Song:

    Heathen Town

  • Artist:

    Elvis Costello

  • Album:

    Out Of Our Idiot

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Intro: A5 Ab5 C5 C5 C5 C5 
 
                C5                                       G5 C5       (add Bb5 ) 
The used to call it Sin City, now its gone way past that; 
F5                                       A5 G5               (add B5 ) 
Painting the town and then burning it down, now even that's old hat. 
                        C5                             E5 
Now there's a chior of angels at the fall of Rome, 
G5                       C5               F5                       A5 
Singing "Ave Maria" or "Home Sweet Home", 
                 C5                              E5        A5 G5 
It's just a heathen town, I hear only evil as my tounge gets tightened; 
     F5                  A5                 G5 
I used to be God fearing, now I'm , I'm so frightened. 
                 F5                              A5              A5 Ab5              C5 
'Cause the Devil will drag you under by the short tail fin of your Checker cab, 
        G5                                       G5                     C5 
and I can't sit down, I'm going overboard, in this heathen town. 
                C5                                       G5 C5      (add Bb5 ) 
It starts out as a flirtation and ends up as an expensive habit. 
        F5                                               A5 G5                   (add B5 ) 
With one eye on a place and that's his prison and the other one on a girl dressed as rabbit. 
                     C5                           E5 
Now you can live forever and do fits and starts, 
             G5                          C5                       F5 A5 
But the only stake you cannot raise is the one driven through your heart, 
                C5                                E5      A5 G5 
It's just a heathen town, I hear only evil as my tounge gets tightened; 
     F5                   A5                   G5 
I used to be God fearing, now I'm , I'm so frightened. 
                 F5                              A5              A5      Ab5 C5 
'Cause the Devil will drag you under by the short tail fin of your Checker cab, 
        G5                                     G5 (add                 C5  
and I can't sit down, I'm going overboard, in this heathen town. 
        G5                                       G5 (add B5 )               C5 
and I can't sit down, I'm going overboard, in this heathen town. 
        A5   Ab5      C5 
In this heathen town (x4)
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