A Slow Drag With Josephine chords by Elvis Costello

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Introduction:
C majorC

Verse 1:

 C majorC
The snitch, the snoop, the tattletale
     FF        C majorC
Lead a threadbare up stairs

Adieu, my little ballyhoo
 DmDm      G+G    C majorC
You broke my heart in two
                FF         C majorC
And now I haunt the bars and scent those trite affairs
 A minorAm    G+G   A minorAm     G+G
She went home to gather her comb
   A minorAm      C majorC
And caught him unawares

Pre-Chorus:

 DmDm                 BB  C majorC  C#C# D MajorD
And there was her man enjoying the lay of the land
 DmDm                   A augmentedA  F#F#  G+G
He took a walk in the dark with a dish from the stand
 C majorC         FF
Girls and their creations
 G+G    FF   G+G     C majorC
Tight in the brightest grenadine
 C majorC    FF    G+G      C majorC
But I'd take all that I've seen
  DmDm         C majorC
For a Slow Drag with Josephine


Chorus:
 G+G     C majorC C/BC/B Am7Am7 G+G
Josephine, Josephine
 C majorC    FF    G+G     C majorC
But I'd trade all that I've seen
  DmDm         C majorC
For a Slow Drag with Josephine


Verse 2:
 A minorAm         FF       DmDm    G+G
Gavotte, garrotes, Cotillions and slow Arabesques
 A minorAm         FF       DmDm    G+G
Drum-rolls and Farandoles were all made in jest
A minorAm           FF
But when you make that move
A minorAm     FF
I can't resist
 C minorCm            G+G
When will you declare your armistice?

Chorus:

 G+G     C majorC C/BC/B Am7Am7 G+G
Josephine, Josephine
 C majorC    FF    G+G     C majorC
But I'd trade all that I've seen
  DmDm         C majorC
For a Slow Drag with Josephine

Verse 3:

C majorC               FF         C majorC
In another time and place a different fate was cast
C majorC
He tried to skeddle-daddle-do
DmDm         G+G
She might have slapped him
          C majorC       FF        C majorC
Just for saying "Grant one more chance before you pass"
    A minorAm    G+G      A minorAm     G+G     A minorAm     C majorC
"Then curse the nurse that named me the first or bury me at last"
 DmDm
And in three-quarter time
   BB   C majorC C#C#  D MajorD
The true and the false
 DmDm         A augmentedA F#F# G+G
Dancing the "Hesitation Waltz"
 C majorC          FF
Then comes the "Flirtation"
 G+G   FF
And temptation
   G+G   C majorC
Hip, hip hooray
 C majorC  FF   G+G   C majorC
Listen to what I say
 DmDm         C majorC
Then you can take it away...