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Every day I write the book

E Costello: Ron Sexsmith version with Costello live

This version of the song sounds best w/ Travis picking. 
(think "Dust in the wind" or "The Boxer")

Capo: 2nd fret Std tuning


INTRO: C/G/F/G  2X



          C                          Em                 Am
Don't tell me you don't know what love is when you're old enough to
       Em                Am                       Dm
know better.  When you find strange hands in your sweater, when
          Em         Am                          Dm
your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote, I'm a man with a
            G                     
mission in two or three editions, and?

 C   G            F      G        C       G
I'm giving you a longing look ev'ryday, ev'ryday,
      F         G                C   
ev'ryday, ev'ryday I write the book.

1X Intro

           Am                                      C     
Chapter one, we didn't really get along, Chapter two, I think I
F                C    C B    Am     
fell in love with you.  you said you'd stand by me in the
                                       Dm
middle of Chapter three, but you were up to your old tricks in Chapters
 G             
four, five, and six, and?

  (chorus)
 C    G         F       G       C         G
I'm giving you a long look ev'ryday, ev'ryday,

      F         G                C   
ev'ryday, ev'ryday I write the book.
 
1X intro



2nd verse:
                Am                                           C
The way you walk, the way you talk and try to kiss me and laugh in four
     F       C   C B 
or five paragraphs.  
Am                                              
All your compliments and your cutting remarks are 
 Dm                         G
captured here in my quotation marks, and?

  (chorus)

 C   G            F      G        C       G
I'm giving you a longing look ev'ryday, ev'ryday,
      F         G                C   
ev'ryday, ev'ryday I write the book.
 

       C                          Em        Am
Don't tell me you don't know the diff'rence,   between a lover and a
  Em              Am                      Dm         Em
fighter.  With my pen and my electric typewriter, even in a
                      Am                          Dm
perfect world where ev'ryone was equal, I'd still own the film rights
        G                  
and be working on the sequel.

{coda}

C                  G              F                  G                  
I'm giving you a longing look ev'ryday, ev'ryday, I write the book and

  C         G         F       G                    C
ev'ryday, ev'ryday ev'ryday  ev'ryday I write the book.

Intro part played out till end
 
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