Deportee chords by Elvis Costello

Chords with lyrics

Deportee (acoustic)
Elvis Costello
From the "Goodbye Cruel World" Ryko reissue

C majorC         G+G       A minorAm
In the Arrivderci Roma ....

FF             C majorC
Standing in the ...

     G+G  FF   Bb majorBb
Watching time ...

C majorC         G+G
All your troubles ...

  G/BG/B       C majorC
To another faceless ...

C majorC        G/BG/B
Schnaps, cianti...

A minorAm   Am/GAm/G  Am/F#   D7D7    FF
Perond vodka, sambuca ...

   C majorC
Deportee

G+G           G+G
There's a tatty beauty ...

A minorAm     Am/GAm/G   Am/F# D7D7  FF
Rome burns down and ...

   C majorC
Deportee

   FF           C majorC        DmDm
But a thousand dollars won't buy ....

     FF         C majorC        G+G    FF   Bb majorBb
There's a thousand years of history ....

  C majorC        G+G
And now I wish that ...

 A minorAm     Am/GAm/G  Am/F# D7D7  FF
I could have been a ...

   C majorC
Deportee
   A minorAm           D MajorD  A minorAm
Its a brittle charm ...

             D MajorD       G+G
Still she wrote her ....

    C majorC                   G+G
And you don't know ....
     C majorC           F7F7
All this pillow talk is ...

D7D7       G+G   G/F G/EG/E G/DG/D (on D MajorD string)
Finally ...

G+G   C majorC          G+G        A minorAm
When I came here tonight my ...

   FF       C majorC         G+G FF  Bb majorBb
They took my return ticket ...

   C majorC           G+G
So I pray to the saints ...

    G/BG/B      C majorC
For the secret life of ...

C majorC                   FF
But none of these ...

  A minorAm   Am/GAm/G  Am/F# D7D7   FF
In America the law ...

   C majorC
Deportee So its

C majorC        G/BG/B
Schnaps, cianti, ....

A minorAm   Am/GAm/G  Am/F#   D7D7    FF
Perond vodka, sambuca ...

   C majorC  FF     C majorC FF    C majorC
Deportee  Poor ...