Coal-train Robberies chords by Elvis Costello

Verse 1:
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Yesterday's coal train came to rest in the bitter
F
Cutting
           C       G       F      G      E
And as the signals took an age to change it was
E7
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
C                                  G
All through the karaoke girls were squealing

The hits
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As another Mercedes-Benz gets blown to bits
              Am                    G
While all the time in the camp town theaters
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Of Piccadilly
                 C       G          F
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
    G
And claim they ain't underneath this paint
       C           G
We interrupt these liberal saints with their
F         E
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

       Am                   G
So we return to whitewashed pout of his
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Committed lips
             C            G         F
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
C                       G
"So many good deeds, so little time"
        C                  G     E E7
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
       C                      G
If you don't believe that I'm going for good
        C                           G
You can count the days I'm gone and chop up
               E      E7
The chairs for firewood

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