Big Tears chords by Elvis Costello

Intro:
G F C x4

Verse:
G                                       Em
Everyone is busy with the regular routine
       D                              G
The sniper just takes his aim
C                                              Am
Everyone is window shopping, no one is amazed
C                                             Am
Even if he hits you, you'd still think it's just a graze
D                     G    D
You go to a movie, you go to a show
                                    G     D
You think that you're living, you don't really know

Chorus:
C    G      C        D
Big tears mean nothing
C          G         Am                D
You can count them as they fall
C    G      C       D
Big tears mean nothing
                     A                  D
When you're lying in your coffin
             G  F C  D                       G F C x4
Tell me who's       been taken in

Verse:
F     C    G                                    Em
Oh, you talk about the new boss automatic clause
           D                                            G
But of course they make it all up for you
C                                      Am
Always fascinated by the weird edge of town
C                                                 Am
Come home disappointed every time they put you down
D                                G       D                         G
Laughing with the old boys, saying that it's all noise

Chorus:
D              C   G       C       D
I suppose big tears mean nothing
C           G        Am                D
You can count them as they fall
C    G     C         D
Big tears mean nothing
                     A                  D
When you're lying in your coffin
             G  F C  D                       G F C x4
Tell me who's       been taken in

Verse:
G                               Em
All the buttons of my overcoat
                  D                        G
They have fallen off one by one
C                                                     Am
You wouldn't even like me if you'd never had a drink
C                                                  Am
You wouldn't even like me if you never stopped to think
D                             G     D                            G
Standing in the shadow, turning wives to widows

Chorus:
D                       C   G       C       D
Don’t you know big tears mean nothing
C           G        Am                D
You can count them as they fall
C    G      C         D
Big tears mean nothing
                     A                        D
When you're lying and you’re coughin’
             G  F C  D                       G F C x2
Tell me who's       been taken in
             G  F C  D                       G F C x2
Tell me who's       been taken in
            G  F C  D                       G F C x2
Tell me who, me or you’s been taken in
G F C    G F C   G F C
Tell me, tell me, tell me