COSTELLO ELVIS - "Pidgin English" Tablature

From michael@magick.net Thu May 15 17:02:14 1997
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 01:09:59 GMT
From: michael p mccullough <michael@magick.net>
To: guitar@olga.net, schnitzi@east.isx.com
Subject: TAB: PIDGIN ENGLISH by ELVIS COSTELLO
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab,alt.fan.elvis.costello


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
michael@magick.net

Lyrics from:
http://east.isx.com/~schnitzi/ec/albums.html

Chords from the songbook, mostly
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Pidgin English
By Elvis Costello
From the album: Imperial Bedroom

INTRO:
D D7 G D D7 G

D D7 G D
There's a young girl with her old man who's too sick to mention
D D7 G D
She'll be turning twenty seven as she draws her widow's pension
D D7 G D
But he couldn't catch a common cold he couldn't get arrested
D D7
Too terrified to answer back
G D7
Too tired to have resisted
G C
Many hands make light work
G
Shorthand makes life easy
C
When he's out on night work
G
Make sure no one sees me
D
It all ends up in a slanging match with body talk and bruises
A7
A change is better than a rest

Silly beggars can't be choosers

CHORUS:

G D
One of a thousand pities you can't categorize
G A Bm
There are ten commandments of love
G D
When will you realise

There are ten commandments of love
A G Em Em7
I believe, I trust, I promise, I wish love's just a throwaway kiss
D
In this Pidgin English

If you're so wise use your lips and your eyes
C
Take it to the bridge she sighs

D D7 G D
You go cheep cheep cheep between bulls-eyes and bluster
D D7
Stiff as your poker face
G D
Keener than mustard
D D7 G D
From your own back yard to the land of exotica
D D7 G D7
From the truth society to neurotic erotica
G C
Silence is golden
G
Money talks diamonds and ermine
G C
There's a word in Spanish
G
Italian and German
D
In sign language, morse code, semaphore and gibberish
A7
Have you forgotten how to say it

In your Pidgin English?

(chorus)

D
PS I love you
(and so on . . . )

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