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Pidgin English Tab

by Elvis Costello




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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


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