Tablature pidgin english - Elvis Costello

          



 

  

  

  From michael@magick.net Thu May 15 17:02:14 1997

  Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 01:09:59 GMT

  From: michael p mccullough <michael@magick.net>

  To: guitar@olga.net, schnitzi@east.isx.com

  Subject: TAB: PIDGIN ENGLISH  by ELVIS COSTELLO

  Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab,alt.fan.elvis.costello

  

  

  Hello,

  

  Here are a few more chord charts (not really TAB after all)

  for some Elvis Costello songs.

  

  Don't forget to use a single spaced font for this!

  

  Please let me know if there are any errors, corrections, and so on.

  

  Thanks,

  

  michael

  michael@magick.net

  

  Lyrics from:

  http://east.isx.com/~schnitzi/ec/albums.html

  

  Chords from the songbook, mostly

  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=

  

  

  

  

  

  Pidgin English

  By Elvis Costello

  >From the album: Imperial Bedroom

  

  INTRO:

  D D7 G D D7 G

  

  D                             D7            G           D

  There's a young girl with her old man who's too sick to mention

            D                D7         G                 D

  She'll be turning twenty seven as she draws her widow's pension

         D                D7             G                 D

  But he couldn't catch a common cold he couldn't get arrested 

      D            D7

  Too terrified to answer back 

      G                D7

  Too tired to have resisted

  G               C

  Many hands make light work

       G

  Shorthand makes life easy 

                   C

  When he's out on night work

       G

  Make sure no one sees me

     D

  It all ends up in a slanging match with body talk and bruises

    A7

  A change is better than a rest

  

  Silly beggars can't be choosers

  

  CHORUS:

  

  G                                  D

  One of a thousand pities you can't categorize

            G      A            Bm

  There are ten commandments of love

  G             D

  When will you realise

  

  There are ten commandments of love

  A                                G                  Em        Em7

  I believe, I trust, I promise, I wish love's just a throwaway kiss

  D

  In this Pidgin English

                        

  If you're so wise use your lips and your eyes

                            C

  Take it to the bridge she sighs

  

  D                  D7                 G         D

  You go cheep cheep cheep between bulls-eyes and bluster

  D               D7

  Stiff as your poker face

  G              D

  Keener than mustard

            D        D7          G         D

  >From your own back yard to the land of exotica

           D        D7          G       D7

  >From the truth society to neurotic erotica

  G             C

  Silence is golden

              G

  Money talks diamonds and ermine

            G       C

  There's a word in Spanish 

     G

  Italian and German 

     D

  In sign language, morse code, semaphore and gibberish

       A7

  Have you forgotten how to say it

  

  In your Pidgin English?

  

  (chorus)

  

  D

  PS I love you 

  (and so on . . . )

  

  ++

  

  

  michael p mccullough ++++ Klamath Falls OR   # 1.541.884.3278

  michael@magick.net  michaelm@cdsnet.net

  all moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday (joyce/FW)

  http://www.magick.net/~michael/  http://www.magick.net/~michael/music.html

   


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 Pidgin english, de Elvis costello 

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