Deportee chords by Elvis Costello

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

C                 G              Am
In the Arrivderci Roma ....

F                          C
Standing in the ...

         G    F     Bb
Watching time ...

C                 G
All your troubles ...

   G/B              C
To another faceless ...

C                G/B
Schnaps, cianti...

Am     Am/G   Am/F#     D7       F
Perond vodka, sambuca ...

      C
Deportee

G                      G
There's a tatty beauty ...

Am         Am/G     Am/F#  D7   F
Rome burns down and ...

      C
Deportee

      F                      C                Dm
But a thousand dollars won't buy ....

          F                 C               G       F      Bb
There's a thousand years of history ....

    C               G
And now I wish that ...

  Am         Am/G   Am/F#  D7   F
I could have been a ...

      C
Deportee
      Am                      D   Am
Its a brittle charm ...

                         D              G
Still she wrote her ....



        C                                     G
And you don't know ....
         C                      F7
All this pillow talk is ...

D7              G     G/F  G/E  G/D  (on D string)
Finally ...

G      C                    G                Am
When I came here tonight my ...

     F              C                 G F   Bb
They took my return ticket ...

     C                      G
So I pray to the saints ...

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

C                                     F
But none of these ...

   Am      Am/G    Am/F# D7      F
In America the law ...

      C
Deportee  So its

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

Am     Am/G   Am/F#     D7       F
Perond vodka, sambuca ...

      C    F          C  F       C
Deportee   Poor ...