COSTELLO ELVIS - "suffering face" Tablature

Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 10:08:49 -0400
From: "Denis J. O'Connell" <denis@natural.com>

Suffering Face
by Elvis Costello
>From "The King of America" Reissue
Transcribed by Denis O'Connell (denis@natural.com)

E B7 A E
There's an old man's fantasy put ....
C#m G#m A E
like cheap pink lipstick ...
C#m G#m
Will you look what ...
A
will you look at ...
E B7 A E f# g# A
Oh, it's all over your .....
E f# g# A

E B7
If we were chrome we ...
A E
if we were thirst ...
C#m G#m
You don't need the ...
A E
you need a brand ...
C#m G#m
Someone to pull you ....
A
and cover you ...
E A
Once I was the ...

now I'm ...

C#m G#m A
But if I seem ...,
C#m G#m A E
it's just my alibi, I'm all ...
C#m G#m A E
Even the words of love, seem ...
C#m G#m A Asus A
when you're tough and ...
E B7 A E
I prepared a bed for you...
C#m G#m A E
upon the wilted roses that I'd ...
C#m G#m
You came in ...
A E
and turned into ...
E B7 A
and you left your "love ...
Asus A
fading on my ....

E B7 A E
But it's an old man's fantasy ...
C#m G#m A E
like cheap pink lipstick ...
C#m G#m A E
Will you look what you'v...
A E
now you've put ...
E B7
and it's ...,
C#m
it's ...
E B7
it's ...
A
your ....
Finish on E

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This is my first attempt at an Elvis transcription, so if anyone has any corrections or comments please feel free to update my chords (I know there are more than a few mistakes in it.) I have used the notation that has been common for these transcriptions : a lowercase letter means play the bass note, but keep the previous chord formation. For example, after the first verse I play the E chrord regularly, and use my thumb to play the bass notes quickly.
From reading the CD liner notes, it seems that Elvis was kind of drunk when he recorded this song. I think that it gives his voice a sort of slurry quality that fits this song perfectly, plus I always love it when it is just Elvis accompanying himself on the guitar. He also steals a line from "Crimes of Paris" (or did "Crimes of Paris" steal it from this song), when he talks about "the words of love".
Please enjoy and keep those other transcriptions coming!
- Denis



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