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Shipbuilding
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Elvis Costello, Clive Langer
From EC's _Punch the Clock_
(P) 1983
The Robert Wyatt version from 1982 is very much the same, only shorter.
The key is transposed two and a half tones up, his version is in Am.
Lyrics are from the _Punch the Clock_ inner sleeve
Am: x-0-2-2-1-0-------------------------------------|
C: x-3-2-0-1-0-------------------------------------|
D: x-x-0-2-3-2 On most of the song: x-5-7-7-7-5-|
Dm: x-x-0-2-3-1 But may also be: x-5-7-7-6-5-|
Em: 0-2-2-0-0-0 On the first times: x-x-2-0-0-0-|
Em/D#: x-x-1-0-0-0-------------------------------------|
Em/D: x-x-0-0-0-0-------------------------------------|
G: 3-5-5-4-3-3-------------------------------------|
C#dim: x-x-2-3-2-3 Also fits: A7: x-0-2-0-2-0-|
Cm7: x-3-5-3-4-3-------------------------------------|
Cmaj7: x-3-5-4-5-3 Easier to play: x-3-2-0-0-0-|
G7: 3-5-3-4-6-3-------------------------------------|
Gm: 3-5-5-3-3-3-------------------------------------|
Eb7 x-7-9-7-9-7-------------------------------------| Can be played C#dim as well - I don't know.
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Is it worth it
A new winter coat and shoes for the wife
And a bicycle on the boy's birthday
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
By the women and children
Soon we'll be shipbuilding
Well I ask you
The boy said "Dad they're going to make me to task
But I'll be back by christmas"
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The result of this shipbuilding
nc G7
With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
A telegram or a picture postcard
Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
Once again
It's all we're skilled in
We will be shipbuilding
With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls
It's all we're skilled in
We will be shipbuilding
With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls
When we could be diving for pearls
When we could be diving for pearls