Tablature shipbuilding - Elvis Costello

          



 

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  Shipbuilding

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  Elvis Costello, Clive Langer

  From EC's _Punch the Clock_

  (P) 1983

  

  The Robert Wyatt version from 1982 is very much the same, only shorter.

  The key is transposed two and a half tones up, his version is in Am.

  

  Lyrics are from the _Punch the Clock_ inner sleeve

  

  

  Am:    x-0-2-2-1-0

  C:     x-3-2-0-1-0

  D:     x-x-0-2-3-2   On most of the song:  x-5-7-7-7-5

  Dm:    x-x-0-2-3-1   But may also be:      x-5-7-7-6-5

  Em:    0-2-2-0-0-0   On the first times:   x-x-2-0-0-0

  Em/D#: x-x-1-0-0-0

  Em/D:  x-x-0-0-0-0

  G:     3-5-5-4-3-3

  C#dim: x-x-2-3-2-3   Also fits:       A7:  x-0-2-0-2-0

  Cm7:   x-3-5-3-4-3

  Cmaj7: x-3-5-4-5-3   Easier to play:       x-3-2-0-0-0

  G7:    3-5-3-4-6-3

  Gm:    3-5-5-3-3-3

  Eb7    x-7-9-7-9-7   Can be played C#dim as well - I don't know.

  

  

  

  

  Am | C | D | D |

  

  

  Em      Em/D#

  Is it worth it

  Em/D         C#dim                  D         

  A new winter coat and shoes for the wife

  Dm            Cm7                 D  

  And a bicycle on the boy's birthday

                              G

  It's just a rumour that was spread around town

  C                D

  By the women and children

                G              

  Soon we'll be shipbuilding

  

  

  Em     Em/D#

  Well I ask you

  Em/D          C#dim                        D

  The boy said "Dad they're going to make me to task

  Dm          Cm7             D

  But I'll be back by christmas"

                              G

  It's just a rumour that was spread around town

  Cmaj7              D

  Somebody said that someone got filled in

  Cmaj7           D

  For saying that people get killed in

  Cmaj7         D                G

  The result of this shipbuilding

  nc           G7

  With all the will in the world

             Eb6 

  Diving for dear life

  D                G

  When we could be diving for pearls

  

  Em               Em/D#            Em/D            C#dim

  

  D                Dm              Cm7              

  

  D                           G

  It's just a rumour that was spread around town

  Cmaj7           D

  A telegram or a picture postcard

  Cmaj7                      D

  Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards

  Cmaj7             D

  And notifying the next of kin

  G

  Once again

                 G7

  It's all we're skilled in

             Eb6         D           G

  We will be shipbuilding

               Gm

  With all the will in the world

             Eb6          D        D        D        

  Diving for dear life 

  D                Em

  When we could be diving for pearls

  Em/D#            Em/D            C#dim

  

  D                Dm              Cm7          D                

  

  G                Cmaj7           D            Cmaj7

  

  D                Cmaj7           D            G

                 

                 G7

  It's all we're skilled in

             Eb6         D           G

  We will be shipbuilding

               Gm

  With all the will in the world

             Eb6          D        D        D        

  Diving for dear life 

  D                D                D        D

  When we could be diving for pearls

  D                D                D        D

  When we could be diving for pearls

  D                   Em  

  When we could be diving for pearls

  

  

   


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