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The World And His Wife Chords by Elvis Costello

The World And His Wife chords by Elvis Costello

Guitar chords with lyrics

The World and His Wife (acoustic)
Elvis Costello
From the "Punch the Clock" Ryko reissue

Intro  G    G/F#   Em    D  C   G

G                               G/F#  Em
The family circle gathers round ....

   D               C                 G
To pass around the same remarks they ...

    G                          G/F# Em
The little girl you dangled on .....

      D                 C          G
Stirs something in your memory ...

*Chorus*
    Am                  Em
The juniper berry has a ...

Bb                               D
I believe that something here is ...

G                G/F# Em
But its a living and  ...

        D     C       D
For the world ...

          C#      F#m
The world and ....

    Am                              Em
The kissing cousins step outside...

Bb                                D
She says sweet nothing at all ...

         G         G/F# Em
She says our mother and ...

D                  C          G
Went for two weeks holiday ...

G                       G/F#    Em
Daddy went out with the rubbish and he kept on talking...
  D                 C              G
Between Mum and the walls god only ....

*Chorus*

(Verse 3 same as verse 2)
The conversation melts like .....

*Chorus* (Except instead of C# and F#m, just play D and C and
repeat again)

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