• Song:

    Deportee (acoustic)

  • Artist:

    Elvis Costello

Tom: C
 
C                 G              Am
In the Arrivderci Roma nightclub bar and grill
F                          C
Standing in the fiberglass ruins
         G    F     Bb
Watching time stand still
C                 G
All your troubles you confess
   G/B              C
To another faceless backless dress
C                G/B
Schnaps, cianti, porter and ouzo
Am     Am/G   Am/F#     D7       F
Perond vodka, sambuca I love you so
      C 
Deportee
G                      G
There's a tatty beauty talkin in riddles
Am         Am/G     Am/F#  D7   F
Rome burns down and every..body fiddles
      C
Deportee
      F                      C                Dm
But a thousand dollars won't buy you a Yankee wife unless
          F                 C               G       F      Bb
There's a thousand years of history drowned in this chaser glass
    C               G      
And now I wish that she was mine
  Am         Am/G   Am/F#  D7   F
I could have been a king in 6/8 time
      C
Deportee
      Am                      D   Am
Its a brittle charm but she's had enough
                         D              G
Still she wrote her name upon his paper cuff
 

        C                                     G
And you don't know where to start or where to stop
         C                      F7
All this pillow talk is nothing more than
D7              G     G/F  G/E  G/D  (on D string)
Finally talking shop
G      C                    G                Am
When I came here tonight my pockets were overflowing
     F              C                 G F   Bb
They took my return ticket without me even knowing
     C                      G
So I pray to the saints and all the maytrs
        G/B            C
For the secret life of Frank Sinarta
C                                     F
But none of these things ever come to pass
   Am      Am/G    Am/F# D7      F
In America the law is a piece of ass
      C
Deportee  So its
C                G/B
Schnaps, cianti, porter and ouzo
 

Am     Am/G   Am/F#     D7       F
Perond vodka, sambuca I love you so
      C    F          C  F       C
Deportee   Poor Deportee   Deportee
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