Human Hands tab - elvis costello

From michael@magick.net Thu May 15 17:01:48 1997
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 01:04:15 GMT
From: michael p mccullough 
Subject: TAB: HUMAN HANDS    by ELVIS COSTELLO
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab,alt.fan.elvis.costello

Hello,

Here are a few more chord charts (not really TAB after all)
for some Elvis Costello songs.

Don't forget to use a single spaced font for this!

Please let me know if there are any errors, corrections, and so on.

Thanks,

michael
michael@magick.net

Lyrics from:
http://east.isx.com/~schnitzi/ec/albums.html

Chords from the songbook, mostly
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Human Hands
By Elvis Costello
From the album: Imperial Bedroom


C#dim   = XX2323

INTRO:
Dsus4    F6

G                                           D
I've been talking to the wall and it's been answering me 
Em         B
Oh darling how I miss you 
    C                          G
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness 
Am7                    D
I crave the silhouette of your kiss 
     G                          D
With only the blue light of the TV on 
Em                      B
Lip reading threats and false alarms 
              C                       G
There's a boy somewhere holding hands with himself 
      Am7                     D
And a girl in a window on the Reeperbarn

    C             C#dim            G          B
Whenever I put my foot in my mouth and you begin to doubt 
Em                     A
That it's you that I'm dreaming about 
     Cm                    C
Do I have to draw you a diagram? 
    C#dim       G               Am                    Em
All I ever want is just to fall into your human hands 

G                                D
With the kings and queens of the dance hall craze 
Em                       B
Checkmate in three moves in your heyday 
        C                          G
But the girls don't listen to your line anymore 
Am7                D
Now you're part of someone else 

       G                     D                     Em
On the factory floor and you still say "Wheres the action?" 
        B                C
Now you manufacture happiness 
             G                               D
And get sold on the cheap for someone's satisfaction 

(chorus)

G                        D
All you toy soldiers and scaremongers 
Em                           B
Are you living in this world sometimes I wonder 
     C                   G                 Am7                   D
In between saying you've seen too much and saying you've seen it all
before

G                     D
Tighter and tighter I hold you tightly 
Em  
You know I love you more than slightly 
         G          Am7               D
Although I've never said it like this before 

(chorus)

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Video Human Hands

Sondre Lerche - Human Hands (live Vancouver 2007)
Sondre Lerche performing at The Red Room, Vancouver on Wednesday November 7th, 2007. (Elvis Costello cover)

margaret thatcher - tramp the dirt down - elvis costello
noticed this song was not on you tube anywhere so i tried to add it. i ran out of pictures of the evil one to add to the end of the song before i vomited. this was also my first attempt at using windows moviemaker. ---------------------------------- I saw a newspaper picture from the political campaign A woman was kissing a child, who was obviously in pain She spills with compassion, as that young child's face in her hands she grips Can you imagine all that greed and avarice coming down on that child's lips Well I hope I don't die too soon I pray the Lord my soul to save Oh I'll be a good boy, I'm trying so hard to behave Because there's one thing I know, I'd like to live long enough to savour That's when they finally put you in the ground I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down When England was the whore of the world Margaret was her madam And the future looked as bright and as clear as the black tarmacadam Well I hope that she sleeps well at night, isn't haunted by every tiny detail 'cos when she held that lovely face in her hands all she thought of was betrayal And now the cynical ones say that it all ends the same in the long run Try telling that to the desperate father who just squeezed the life from his only son And how it's only voices in your head and dreams you never dreamt Try telling him the subtle difference between justice and contempt Try telling me she isn't angry with this pitiful discontent When they flaunt it in your face as you line up for punishment And then expect you to say "Thank you" straighten up, look proud and pleased Because you've only got the symptoms, you haven't got the whole disease Just like a schoolboy, whose head's like a tin-can filled up with dreams then poured down the drain Try telling that to the boys on both sides, being blown to bits or beaten and maimed Who takes all the glory and none of the shame Well I hope you live long now, I pray the Lord your soul to keep I think I'll be going before we fold our arms and start to weep I never thought for a moment that human life could be so cheap but when they finally put you in the ground They'll stand there laughing and tramp the dirt down

Music Video: All I Want (Is for McCain to Make Some Sense)
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