Here's Elvis Costello's "Green Shirt" from the demo version off
the Ryko reissued of "This Years Model". The original version is
on "Armed Forces" and has very little guitar. For the demo
version, there is an extra verse (the last one). Be sure to
concentrate on the bass strings of the chords and use the up and
down picking motion EC does (listen to the record for details)
*verse 1*
There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen
That comes into my room every night
And she takes all the red, yellow, orange and green
And she turns them into black and white.
*chorus*
And you tease
And you flirt
/
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt
You can please yourself, but somebody's going to get it
Better cut off all identifying labels
Before they get you on the touture table
*same as first verse*
Cause somewhere in the quisling clinic
There's a short time typist taking seconds over minutes
She's listening into the Venus line
She's picking out names, I hope none of them are mine
And you tease
And you flirt
/
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt
You can tease yourself, but somebody's going to get it
Never said I was a stool pigeon
Never said I was a diplomat
Everybody is under suspicion but
You don't want to hear about that
And you tease
And you flirt
/
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt
You can please yourself, but somebody's going to get it
Better send the naked ledger to the big investigation
Who put these finger prints on my imagination
*same as verse 1*
There are wives in the windows
There are wives in the walls
There are wives in the kitchens
And wives in the halls
There are wives on poles
There are wives in your face
There are wives in holes
Coming out all over the place
And you tease
And you flirt
/
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt
You can please yourself, but somebody's going to get it
*same*
You can please yourself, but somebody's going to get it
You can please yourself, but somebody's going to get it