Pads, Paws & Claws - Elvis Costello
Main Riff:
Bottom E -1-1-3-1-1-3-1-1-3-1-1-3-1-1-3-1-1-3-1-1-3-1-1-3
Verse One:
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She's a feline tormentor, not any vaudeville wife
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But with a drunk-town lament
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He leads her a miserable life
But when he's full of that beer-champagne
No Chord
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws
Verse Two:
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And if he should wake up in some terrible dive
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And he don't know if he's so-so
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But he's so surprised he's alive
"Come on little honey, let me under your hive"
No Chord
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws
Bridge:
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She pads, pads around the bedroom,
Practicing ways to flirt
He paws, pours another drink and anything in a skirt
Anything wearing a necklace
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He thinks of claws scratching his back
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he's going out there he's not coming back
Verse 3
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She's got spider-leg fingers,
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Sharpened whenever he strays
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And she carries a bird-purse,
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With all of her womanly ways
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While he's drinking hairspray,
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She knows that he never would dare
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She could be in pictures if she wasn't all covered in fur
He's coming home now and here's the surprise
You wouldn't believe the lies that he tries
She cut him down to her favourite size
No Chord
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws
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She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws
Repeat to Fade
(----- etc means “Keep playing the riff” or “Keep hitting the chord”. The chords in the
are just hit staccato notes whereas in the verse it has an up, up, change rhythm)