Pony St chords by Elvis Costello

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice



Intro: D  Dsus4  D[5x]

G
She lives on Pony Street
G                                       C
And they should scatter flowers at her feet
    D              C         G
But when they come calling I think it's appalling
        Am        D        G
They're sober and they're polite
        D           C          G
They're deeply respectful when I would expect them
    Am                          D
To keep her out all night
G

That little martinet
G                    C
Will get her own way yet
   D             C         G
If you need instruction in mindless destruction
     Am         D        G
I'll show you a thing or two
    D          C         G                   Am
You used to adore me but now my life flashes before me
    D
For you to view

D           A           D            G         Em
Oh mother, oh mother, sometimes you are so mortifying
         D             A           D            G                  Em
From the hole in your leopard skin tights I can tell you've been spying
    D         A        D        G             Em
But your generation confesses before it transgresses
      D        A         D       G          Em
Those Super-8 movies of daddy in your disco dresses

G
If you're going out tonight
C            Am
I won't wait up
Reading "Das Kapital"
A
Watching "Home Shopping Club"
             D
While you're flogging a dead horse
C       G        D     G
All the way down Pony Street
D              G        D
Where you live after a fashion
C       G        D     G
All the way down Pony Street
     D           G                C
The life and the soul of every indiscretion
Am                             D
That lives on, that lives on, that lives on
C    G/B
Pony Street

D             A            D            G          Em
Daughter, oh daughter, you know I will love you forever
     D           A            D              G           Em
But spare me the white ankle socks with the lace and the leather
    F            A       D             G        Em
For you and your cartoon threat do no good to resist me
    F         A      D              G             Em
For I am the genuine thing but for you it's just history

G
If you're going out tonight
C              Am
How can you be sure
Where you lay your pretty head
A
Mother may have been before
            D
So you're flogging a dead horse
C       G        D    G
All the way down Pony Street
D              G       D
Where you live after a fashion
C       G        D    G
All the way down Pony Street
    D            G                  C
The life and the soul of every indiscretion
Am              Am
That lives on, That lives on
Am              A             A
That lives on, That lives on, That lives on
D   Dsus4 D
She lives on Pony Street [2x]
D   Dsus4 D   D   Dsus4 D
She lives on, she lives on [2x]

D Dsus4 D until fade out