Miracle Man bass tab by Elvis Costello

Intro-guitars :

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You never asked me what I wanted. You only asked me why.

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   I never thought that so much trouble was a restin' on my reply,
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I could say it was the nights when I was lonely
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and you were the only one who'd come.
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I could tell you that I like your sensitivity, when you know it's the way that you walk.

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Why do you have to say that there's always someone who can do it better than I can?
But don't you think that I know that walking on the water won't make me a miracle man?

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Baby's gotta have the things she wants. You know she's gotta have the things she loves.
She's got a ten-inch bamboo cigarette holder and her black patent leather gloves.

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And I'm doing everything just tryin' to please her, even crawling around on all fours.
Oh, I thought by now that it was gonna be easy, but she still seems to want for more.

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Why do you have to say there there's always someone
Who can do it better than I can?
But don't you think that I know that walking on the water
Won't make me a miracle man?
Oh yeah

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 (short interlude)
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Yeah they're givin' you a bad reputation just because you've never
been denied. You try to say you've done it all before. Baby, you know
that you just get tired.

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Yet everybody loves you so much, girl. I just don't know how you stand the strain.
Oh, but I'm the one who's here tonight, and I don't wanna do it all in vain.

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Why do you have to say there there's always someone who can do it better than I can?
But don't you think that I know that walking on the water won't make me a miracle man? Oh yeah

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  Outro - (repeats and fades)
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