Pretty Words tab - elvis costello

From michael@magick.net Fri May 16 08:02:13 1997
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 02:02:51 GMT
From: michael p mccullough 
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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Elvis Costello Inspired Music
Official Website: http://myspace.com/quotingnapoleon Plastic America by Quoting Napoleon John Salazar - Vocals Sam Kovic - Guitar Guy Wettstein - Bass Steve Turmell - Drums Elvis Costello Inspired Music Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus 25 August 1954) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, with Irish ancestry. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s. Steeped in wordplay, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs, and his music has drawn on dozens of genres. Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote, "Costello, the pop encyclopedia, can reinvent the past in his own image". http://www.elviscostello.com See Also: Mystery Dance, Pay It Back, I'm Not Angry, Waiting For The End Of The World, Watching The Detectives, No Action, Living In Paradise, Radio Sweetheart, Stranger In The House, Welcome To The Working Week, Blue Minute, Miracle Man, Call On Me, The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes,I Don't Want To Go Home, I Hear A Melody, Blame It On Cain, No Dancing, Night Rally, Hoover Factory,. No Action, I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea, The Beat, Less Than Zero, Lipstick Vogue, Lip Service, Alison, Pay It Back, Sneaky Feelings, Crawling In The USA, Clubland, Lovers Walk, You'll Never Be A Man, Pretty Words, Different Finger, Strict Time, Luxembourg, Watch Your Step, New Lace Sleeves, From a Whisper To a Scream. Long live Elvis Costello!

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