Tablature deportee - Elvis Costello

          



 

  From: wvaughan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William Vaughan)

  Subject: CRD's Elvis Costello - Deportee (acoustic)

  

  

  Deportee (acoustic)

  Elvis Costello

  From the "Goodbye Cruel World" Ryko reissue

  

  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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 Deportee, de Elvis costello 

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