Elvis Costello - Clowntime is over
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:15:18 -0400
From: "D. W. Bennett" <dbennett@networx.on.ca>
Subject: c/costello_elvis/clowntime_is_over.crd
Clowntime Is Over
(Elvis Costello from the album "Get Happy!" - Words and Music by Elvis
Costello)
Transcribed by D. W. Bennett
Intro: D C D Gsus4 D# D
DTears on your Cblackmail
EmWritten to Amransom
DA point of the Cfingernail
EmSays that he's Amhandsome
DClowntime is Cover
D#Time to take Ccover
DWhile others just Ctalk and talk
EmSomebody's Amwatching where the others don't Dwalk
DClowntime is overD
A voice in the shadows
Says that his men know
He don't step back as expected
He's otherwise and unprotected
Chorus
DAlmost too Cgood to be true
EmWho do you? Amwhy do you? what do you do?
DWhile everybody's Chiding under covers
Em Am Am/B Am/C D
Who's making lover's lane safe again for lovers?
Chorus
I like to end with the intro followed by a sustained C12 (open C chord with a
high G added) chord.