Costello Elvis - Pretty Words, аккорды

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From [email protected] Fri May 16 08:02:13 1997
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 02:02:51 GMT
From: michael p mccullough 
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: TAB: Pretty Words ////// Elvis Costello
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 slapped under wraps
G
What's going on precisely
                   
D
        
Em
Is there something wrong perhaps?
C
         
D7
 
G
Surprise, surprise (surprise, surprise)
D
 
C
                
D7
 
G
         
D
               
Em
  
D
    It's more like a booby trap than a booby prize
G
                                        
D
     
Em
     
F
 
C
Civil disobedience from a soldier with a dirty rifle
G
                                                    
D
     
Em
You're loosening all the screws that hold the hinges of my life
C
         
D7
 
G
Fat cats and army brats
C
        
D7
 
G
       
D
              
Em
       
F
 
C
Hep cats in dog tag pawing over girly mags

CHORUS:

G
                  
F
            
Bm
  
C#m
  
D
  
E6
Pretty words don't mean much anymore
G
                  
Bb
                
Em
 
F#m
I don't mean to be mean much anymore
G
             
C
All I see are snapshots, bigshots, tender spots
(1) mug shots, machine slots
(2) machine slots, mug shots
'Till you don't know what's what
                             
Em
 
F
 
C
You don't know what you got

G
                              
D
    
Em
  
F
 
C
Curious women running after curious men
G
Curiosity didn't kill the cat
         
D
        
Em
It was a poisoned pen
C
               
D7
  
G
                      
D
But there's not much choice (it's Hobson's choice)
C
       
D7
 
G
          
D
              
Em
   
D
Between a cruel mouth and a jealous voice
G
Got back to London
               
D
        
Em
Picked a paper from the man
G
No words of consolation
                  
D
      
Em
Just cartoons and titter tatter
C
         
D7
 
G
Well well, fancy that
C
                 
D7
 
G
                
C
Millions murdered for a kiss me quick hat
             
G
No backbone, blood and guts
D
                   
Em
     
F
Better keep your big mouth shut

(Chorus)

F
              
C
             
G
You don't know what you got . . . .


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