Everyday I Write The Book Acoustic chords by Elvis Costello

Chords with lyrics

From 1983 'Punch the Clock' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_the_Clock
Key C# minorC#m
*Capo on the 4th fret*
The song is in an A/B/C format, making it a little tricky


Intro:
A minorAm / E minorEm / Fmaj7Fmaj7 / G+G (I like G minorGm better)
A minorAm / E minorEm / Fmaj7Fmaj7 / G+G

Verse (Form A augmentedA):
   C majorC              E minorEm
Don't tell me you don't know what love is
      A minorAm         E minorEm
When you're old enough to know better
     A minorAm             DmDm
When you find strange hands in your sweater
     E minorEm
When your dreamboat
   A augmentedA
Turns out to be a footnote
   DmDm
I'm a man with a mission
  E minorEm      G+G
In two or three editions, and

Chorus (Form BB)

C majorC   E minorEm     FF    G+G
 I'm giving you a longing look
   C majorC     E minorEm    FF
Everyday, everyday, everyday,
   G+G       C majorC
Everyday I write the book

E minorEm / FF / G+G

Verse (Form C majorC):

      A minorAm
Chaaa-pter one, we didn't really get along
    C majorC       E minorEm        C majorC
Chapter two, I think I fell in love with you
  A minorAm
You said you'd, stand by me in the middle of Chapter three
       DmDm
But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters
E minorEm       G+G
Four, five, and six, and

Repeat Chorus (Form BB)

C majorC   E minorEm     FF    G+G
 I'm giving you a longing look
   C majorC     E minorEm    FF
Everyday, everyday, everyday,
   G+G       C majorC
Everyday I write the book

E minorEm / FF / G+G

Verse (Form C majorC):
     A minorAm
The wa-ay you walk
                    C majorC
The way you talk and try to kiss me and laugh
      E minorEm    C majorC
In four or five paragraphs.
     A minorAm
All your compliments and your cutting remarks
  DmDm         E minorEm    G+G
are captured here in my quotation marks, and

Repeat Chorus

C majorC   E minorEm     FF    G+G
 I'm giving you a longing look
   C majorC     E minorEm    FF
Everyday, everyday, everyday,
   G+G       A minorAm (return to intro)
Everyday I write the book

A minorAm E minorEm   FF         G+G
Oo oooooo Everyday I write the book

Verse (Form A augmentedA):
   C majorC             E minorEm
Don't tell me you don't know the difference
  A minorAm         E minorEm
Between a lover and a fighter
    A minorAm           DmDm
With my pen and my electric typewriter
   E minorEm
Even in a perfect world
   A augmentedA
Where everyone was equal
  DmDm
I'd still own the film rights
    E minorEm       G+G
And be working on the sequel, and

Repeat Chorus (Form BB) x 3
C majorC   E minorEm     FF    G+G
 I'm giving you a longing look
   C majorC     E minorEm    FF
Everyday, everyday, everyday,
   G+G       C majorC
Everyday I write the book
E minorEm    FF
Everyday, everyday,
   G+G       C majorC
Everyday I write the book
E minorEm    FF
Everyday, everyday,
   G+G       A minorAm
Everyday I write the book (back into following intro but miss the G+G)

Oooo oooo oooooo
A minorAm / E minorEm / FF

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