Tablature you tripped at every step - Elvis Costello

          



 

  from: Christian Korbanka, Cologne, Germany

  e-mail: Christian_Korbanka@msn.com

  lyrics and chords of: You Tripped At Every Step by Elvis Costello And The Attractions

  

  Suggestions and corrections are always welcome!

  date: 95/10/15

  

  

  G                   Em/B     C          G/D

  Take your tiny feet out of your mother´s shoes

     Bm              Em            Am7         D7

  Or there´s is going to be a terrible scene

  G                   Em/B     C             G/D

  It´s not just a lipstick drawn on crooked when they

  Bm            Em

  Find how wicked we are

  B                Bdim          C

  How wicked we have been

  E                       Am

  How I´ve been tempted

  

  C                           G/D D  C

  How you tripped at every step

                           Em                    C            Em

  You tripped at every step, you tripped at every step

        C                            Bm D/A   C

  Oh, how you tripped at every step

  

  G                      Em/B           C      G/D

  There´s a merry tune that starts in "I" and ends

    Bm              Em               Am7          D7

  In "You", like many famous pop songs do

  G                      Em/B     C         G/D

  You would sing along with little tell-tale staggers

  Bm         Em

  While balancing on daggers

  B                      Bdim   C

  Thou they were killing you

  E                       Am

  You looked so deadly

  

  C                         G/D D  C

  As you tripped at every step

                          Em                     C            Em

  You tripped at every step, you tripped at every step

        C                            Bm D/A   C

  Oh, how you tripped at every step

  

  

        Eb                   Cm7         Ab6           G7

  And I would try to catch you anytime you call

           Cm7                                                    Bb7

  Only you drank that potion and went out of control

                 Eb          Cm7                 Ab6       G7

  There´s nothing to stop you so how can you fall

   C                        Am

  Let me take your hand

  Bb/F                         D/F#

  Put down that frying pan

  

  G                        Em/B        C             G/D

  Darkness would become me, underneath the table

  Bm      Em             Am7          D7

  As the fury raged around the house

  G                      Em/B       C       G/D

  Your despairing tread was angry and unstable

  Bm   Em

  You never suspected

     B               Bdim      C

  Just as this cartoon mouse

  E            Am

  Went undetected

  

  C                         G/D D  C

  As you tripped at every step

                          Em                     C          Em

  You tripped at every step, you tripped at every step

        C                            Bm D/A   C

  Oh, how you tripped at every step

  

  G              Em/B     C             G/D

  In another world of gin and cigarettes

         Bm               Em        Am7              D7

  Those cocktail cabinets put mud in your eye

  G                  Em/B    C         G/D

  Maybe that is why you find it hard to see me

  Bm           Em

  And if you don´t believe me

  B               Bdim     C

  Before you start to cry

  E                Am

  "Don´t eve leave me."

  

  C                         G/D D  C

  As you tripped at every step

                          Em                     C          Em

  You tripped at every step, you tripped at every step

        C                            Bm D/A   C

  Oh, how you tripped at every step

  

  

  

  Original tune is in D-Major!

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