COSTELLO ELVIS - "deportee" Tablature

From: wvaughan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William Vaughan)
Subject: CRD's Elvis Costello - Deportee (acoustic)


Deportee (acoustic)
Elvis Costello
From the "Goodbye Cruel World" Ryko reissue

C G Am
In the Arrivderci Roma nightclub bar and grill

F C
Standing in the fiberglass ruins

G F Bb
Watching time stand still

C G
All your troubles you confess

G/B C
To another faceless backless dress

C G/B
Schnaps, cianti, porter and ouzo

Am Am/G Am/F# D7 F
Perond vodka, sambuca I love you so

C
Deportee

G G
There's a tatty beauty talkin in riddles

Am Am/G Am/F# D7 F
Rome burns down and every..body fiddles

C
Deportee

F C Dm
But a thousand dollars won't buy you a Yankee wife unless

F C G F Bb
There's a thousand years of history drowned in this chaser glass

C G
And now I wish that she was mine

Am Am/G Am/F# D7 F
I could have been a king in 6/8 time

C
Deportee
Am D Am
Its a brittle charm but she's had enough

D G
Still she wrote her name upon his paper cuff



C G
And you don't know where to start or where to stop

C F7
All this pillow talk is nothing more than

D7 G G/F G/E G/D (on D string)
Finally talking shop

G C G Am
When I came here tonight my pockets were overflowing

F C G F Bb
They took my return ticket without me even knowing

C G
So I pray to the saints and all the maytrs

G/B C
For the secret life of Frank Sinarta

C F
But none of these things ever come to pass

Am Am/G Am/F# D7 F
In America the law is a piece of ass

C
Deportee So its

C G/B
Schnaps, cianti, porter and ouzo

Am Am/G Am/F# D7 F
Perond vodka, sambuca I love you so

C F C F C
Deportee Poor Deportee Deportee