• Song:

    Two Little Hitlers

  • Artist:

    Elvis Costello

  • Album:

    Armed Forces

Tom: A5

A5                 E5
Why are we racing to be so old?
A5                             E5
I'm up late pacing the floor I won't be told
A5                          E5             D5
You have your reservations I'm bought and sold
D5
I'll face the music I'll face the facts
E5
Even when we walk in polka dots and chequer slacks
A5                    E5
Bowing and squawking Running after titbits
A5                     E5
Bobbing and squinting Just like a nitwit

Chorus:
D5
Two little Hitlers will fight it out until
E5                                      A5
One little Hitler does the other one's will
  D5       E5            D5           E5
I will    return     I will    not burn
       E5
Down in the basement
A5                       E5
I need my head examined I need my eyes excited
A5                          E5
I'd like to join the party But I was not invited
A5                       E5
You make a member of me I'll be delighted
D5
I wouldn't cry for lost souls, you might drown
E5
Dirty words for dirty minds Written in a toilet town
A5                   E5
Dial me a Valentine She's a smooth operator
A5                      E5
It's all so calculated She's got a calculator
A5                              E5
She's my soft touch typewriter And I'm the great dictator

**Chorus
                      A5
A simple game of self-respect
E5                          A5
You flick a switch and the world goes off
E5                     A5
Nobody jumps as you expect
E5                                   F#5           E5
I would have thought you would have had enough by now
A5                         E5
You call selective dating For some effective mating
A5                                E5
I thought I'd let you down, dear But you were just deflating
A5                           E5
I knew right from the start We'd end up hating
D5 
Pictures of the merchandise Plastered on the wall
E5
We can look so long as we don't have to talk at all
A5                             E5
You say you'll never know him He's an unnatural man
A5                             A5
He doesn't want your pleasure He wants as no one can
A5                             E5
He wants to know the names of All those he's better than

**Chorus
  D5      E5
I will return
  D5        E5
I will not burn  . . . . .
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