Coal-train Robberies chords by Elvis Costello

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
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Yesterday's coal train came to rest in the bitter
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Cutting
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And as the signals took an age to change it was
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Easy pickings
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So you go to the movies where they smash it up
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You want to feel your heart pumping it makes

You feel good
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All through the karaoke girls were squealing

The hits
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As another Mercedes-Benz gets blown to bits
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While all the time in the camp town theaters
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Of Piccadilly
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They're going to throw a black-face minstrel
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Show for the barefoot children
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That they're always selling
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They'll say "It's quaint" as the guilty ones faint
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And claim they ain't underneath this paint
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We interrupt these liberal saints with their
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Whips and watermelon


Chorus:
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Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery
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It's like another world, or it had better be

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So we return to whitewashed pout of his
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Committed lips
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Since he was declared the long lost fountain
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Of youth that drips and drips and drips
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They'll be sending him round from door to door
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To sell you back what's already yours
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"So many good deeds, so little time"
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Say the advertising agency swine
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When man has destroyed what he thinks he owns
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I hope no living thing cries over his bones
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If you don't believe that I'm going for good
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You can count the days I'm gone and chop up
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The chairs for firewood

Chorus:
A minorAm          FF  DmDm     G+G
Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery
A minorAm    FF       DmDm    G+G
It's like another world, or it had better be