Tablature the world and hiswife - Elvis Costello

          



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

  {t:The World and His Wife}

  {st:Elvis Costello}

  #From the "Punch the Clock" Ryko reissue

  

  Intro:  [G]    [G/F#]   [Em]    [D]  [C]   [G]

  

  [G]The family circle gathers round [G/F#]from v[Em]ery far and near

  To [D]pass around the [C]same remarks they [G]passed away last year

  The [G]little girl you dangled on [G/F#]your [Em]knee without mishap

  Stirs [D]something in your [C]memory and [G]something in your lap

  

  {c:Chorus:}

  The [Am]juniper berry has a [Em]very deadly kiss

  [Bb]I believe that something here is [D]very much amiss

  [G]But its a living [G/F#]and  [Em]this is the life

  For the [D]world [C]and his [D]wife

  The world [C#]and his [F#m]wife

  

  The [Am]kissing cousins step outside to [Em]cuddle and confess

  [Bb]She says sweet nothing at all its [D]much more of a mess

  She says [G]our mother[G/F#] and [Em]someone elses father

  [D]Went for two weeks [C]holiday in [G]Taramasalata

  [G]Daddy went out with the [G/F#]rubbish [Em]and he kept on talking

  Be[D]tween Mum and the [C]walls god only [G]knows who does the talking

  

  {c:Chorus}

  

  (Verse 3 same as verse 2)

  The conversation melts like chocolate down our open jaws

  Through the loud appeal of laughter 

  and the counting score drawers

  But later on in the evening through the tears and fol de rol

  Come the setimental feelings of the lure of vitriol

  Longing thoughts go hankering for the old home overseas

  With a blindfold and a national anthem sung in different keys

  

  {c:Chorus,(Except instead of C# and F#m, just play D and C and repeat again)}

   


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 The world and hiswife, de Elvis costello 

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