COSTELLO ELVIS - "Clowntime Is Over" Tablature

e: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:15:18 -0400
From: "D. W. Bennett" <dbennett@networx.on.ca>
Subject: c/costello_elvis/clowntime_is_over.crd

Clowntime Is Over
(Elvis Costello from the album "Get Happy!" - Words and Music by Elvis
Costello)
Transcribed by D. W. Bennett

Intro: C F C Csus4 Ab G
C F
Tears on your blackmail
Am Dm
Written to ransom
C F
A point of the fingernail
Am Dm
Says that he's handsome
C F
Clowntime is over
Ab F
Time to take cover
C F
While others just talk and talk
Am Dm G
Somebody's watching where the others don't walk
G C
Clowntime is over

A voice in the shadows
Says that his men know
He don't step back as expected
He's otherwise and unprotected

Chorus
C F
Almost too good to be true
Am Dm
Who do you? why do you? what do you do?
C F
While everybody's hiding under covers
Am Dm Dm/E Dm/F G
Who's making lover's lane safe again for lovers?

Chorus

I like to end with the intro followed by a sustained C12 (open C chord with a
high G added) chord.