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From [email protected] Thu May 15 17:02:14 1997
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 01:09:59 GMT
From: michael p mccullough
To: [email protected], [email protected]
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
[email protected]
Lyrics from:
http://east.isx.com/~schnitzi/ec/albums.html
Chords from the songbook, mostly
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Pidgin English
By Elvis Costello
>From the album: Imperial Bedroom
INTRO:
There's a young girl with her old man who's too sick to mention
She'll be turning twenty seven as she draws her widow's pension
But he couldn't catch a common cold he couldn't get arrested
Too terrified to answer back
Too tired to have resisted
Many hands make light work
Shorthand makes life easy
When he's out on night work
Make sure no one sees me
It all ends up in a slanging match with body talk and bruises
change is better than a rest
Silly beggars can't be choosers
CHORUS:
One of a thousand pities you can't categorize
There are ten commandments of love
When will you realise
There are ten commandments of love
I believe, I trust, I promise, I wish love's just a throwaway kiss
In this Pidgin English
If you're so wise use your lips and your eyes
Take it to the bridge she sighs
You go cheep cheep cheep between bulls-eyes and bluster
Stiff as your poker face
Keener than mustard
>From your own back yard to the land of exotica
>From the truth society to neurotic erotica
Silence is golden
Money talks diamonds and ermine
There's a word in Spanish
Italian and German
In sign language, morse code, semaphore and gibberish
Have you forgotten how to say it
In your Pidgin English?
(chorus)
PS I love you
(and so on . . . )
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michael p mccullough ++++ Klamath Falls OR # 1.541.884.3278
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