Elvis Costello

Pretty Words Chords

by Elvis Costello
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From michael@magick.net Fri May 16 08:02:13 1997 Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab,alt.fan.elvis-costello Pretty Words Words & Music by: Elvis Costello >From the album: TRUST Note: This song was recorded in the key of F major, but I transposed it to Gmajor. I am just more used to the chords in G. For the original key of F version please refer to the songbook. Also, I am not the world's finest transposer, so let me know what what mistakes you find! thanks, m. G I ask you nicely D Em F C Get my face .... G What's going on ... D Em Is there something .. C D7 G Surprise, ... D C D7 G D Em D It's more like a booby ... G D Em F C Civil disobedience from a ... G D Em You're loosening all the screws ... C D7 G Fat cats and ... C D7 G D Em F C Hep cats in dog tag ...
CHORUS: G F Bm C#m D E6 Pretty words ... G Bb Em F#m I don't mean to be .... G C All I see are ... (1) mug shots, ... (2) machine slots, ... 'Till you don't ... Em F C You don't know .. G D Em F C Curious women running ... G Curiosity didn't ... D Em It was a ... C D7 G D But there's not much ... C D7 G D Em D Between a cruel mouth ... G Got back ... D Em Picked a paper ... G No words ... D Em Just cartoons and ... C D7 G Well well, ... C D7 G C Millions murdered ... G No backbone, ... D Em F Better keep your ... (Chorus) F C G You don't know what you got . . . . ++++++++++++++++++++++++ michael p mccullough ++++ Klamath Falls OR # 1.541.884.3278 michael@magick.net michaelm@cdsnet.net all moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday (joyce/FW) http://www.magick.net/~michael/ http://www.magick.net/~michael/music.html

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