• Song:

    Londons Brilliant Parade

  • Artist:

    Elvis Costello

"London's Brilliant Parade" (Capo: 5th. fret)

____Intro: Strings: B & E

(Notes on both strings to be played simultaneously)

 E5 string:*G5  F5  F5
 B5 string: D5  C#5  C5 * (Repeat *-* 2 more times)

____Verse: 1

E5           C#5
 Outside my window
                 A5       E5
 not long before sleep arrives
      G5                   E5
 they come with their sirens___
                  A5
 and they sweep away all the boys
      C#5                        F#5
 busy draining the joy from their___lives
      B5                              E5
 they never said their prayers out loud

____Verse: 2

E5              C#5
 And while I'm dreaming
                   A5     E5
 there's a passing motor car
      G5                    E5
 that broadcasts a popular song
              A5
 and a girl appears to be saying
        C#5                       F#5
"Do you think that I'm going to go___far"?

____Chorus: 1 

 C5
 Just look at me
     E5                 E5
 I'm having the time of my_______life
    A5
 or something quite like it
 D5                         G5
 when I'm walking out and about
             F5       C5
 in London's brilliant parade

____Bridge: 

       E5                         A5
 She's one of those girls that you just can't place
          E5                     A5
 you feel guilty desiring such an innocent face
        D5                    F#5              B5
 but of course they knew that____when they cast__her
  D5                F#5       B5
 along with the red____Routema__ster
         E5                    A5
 and the film takes place in an MGB
      E5                         A5
 in a perfect re-creation of "The Speakeasy"
      D5             F#5          B5
 everybody looks hap____py and twi__sted
            D5          F#5       B5
 though she probably ne____ver exi__sted
               Ab5  D5              Bb5    B5
 for old times sake,______don't let me awake______

____Verse: 3

E5           C#5
 I wouldn't want you
                A5          E5
 to walk across Hungerford Bridge
   G5                 E5                 
 especially at twili___ght
                     A5
 looking through the bolts and the girders
 C#5              F#5
 into the water be___low
        B5                        E5
 you'll never find your answer there

____Verse: 4

E5                  C#5
 They sounded the "all-clear"
            A5         E5
 in the occidental bazaar
      G5                   E5
 they used to call Oxford Street
                  A5
 now the bankrupt souls in the city
     C#5               F#5
 are finally tasting de___feat

____Chorus: 2

 C5
 Don't look at me
     E5                 E5
 I'm having the time of my_______life
    A5
 or something quite like it
 D5                         G5
 when I'm walking out and about
             F5       C5
 in London's brilliant parade
 D5                         G5
 when I'm walking out and about
             F5       C5
 in London's brilliant parade

____Verse: 5

E5                      C#5
 From the gates of St. Mary's,
                       A5      E5
 there were horses in Olym__pia
       G5                           E5
 and a trolley bus in Fulham Broadway
                   A5
 the lions and the tigers
             C#5                    F#5
 in Regents Park couldn't pay their way
     B5                         E5
 and now they're not the only ones

____Verse: 6

E5                   C#5
 At the Hammersmith Palais
                   A5        E5
 in Kensington and___Camden town
           G5                   E5
 there's a part that I used to play
               A5   
 the lovely Diorama is really
 C#5                   F#5
 part of the drama, I'd___say

____Chorus: 1 

 C5
 Just look at me
     E5                 E5
 I'm having the time of my_______life
    A5
 or something quite like it
 D5                         G5
 when I'm walking out and about
             F5       C5
 in London's brilliant parade (Repeat chorus)

____Coda:

 E5 string:*G5  F5  F5
 B5 string: D5  C#5  C5 * (Repeat *-* 2 more times)
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