COSTELLO ELVIS - "the world and his wife" Tablature

From: wvaughan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William Vaughan)

The World and His Wife (acoustic)
Elvis Costello
From the "Punch the Clock" Ryko reissue

Intro G G/F# Em D C G

G G/F# Em
The family circle gathers round ....

D C G
To pass around the same remarks they ...

G G/F# Em
The little girl you dangled on .....

D C G
Stirs something in your memory ...

*Chorus*
Am Em
The juniper berry has a ...

Bb D
I believe that something here is ...

G G/F# Em
But its a living and ...

D C D
For the world ...

C# F#m
The world and ....

Am Em
The kissing cousins step outside...

Bb D
She says sweet nothing at all ...

G G/F# Em
She says our mother and ...

D C G
Went for two weeks holiday ...

G G/F# Em
Daddy went out with the rubbish and he kept on talking...
D C G
Between Mum and the walls god only ....

*Chorus*

(Verse 3 same as verse 2)
The conversation melts like .....

*Chorus* (Except instead of C# and F#m, just play D and C and
repeat again)