Watch Your Step tab - elvis costello

From michael@magick.net Fri May 16 08:02:37 1997
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 02:02:27 GMT
From: michael p mccullough 
Subject: TAB: Watch Your Step /// Elvis Costello
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab,alt.fan.elvis-costello

Watch Your Step
Words & Music by: Elvis Costello
From the album: TRUST

INTRO:
C F Em     C F G  (repeat)


   C           F   Em  C         F   Cm 
1.)Don't say a word,   don't say anything
2.)Ev'ry day is full   of fun,   and 
3.)Ev'ry night go out     full   of 

   C           F     Em  C        F     G
1.)Don't say a word, I'm not even listening
2.)  family spies,       they're making heroes 
3.)carnival desires       end up in the 

   C             Dm          Em
1.)I read in the papers about their escape
2.)out of fall guys     they say it's good 
3.)closing time choirs       when you're 

   F            C                      Em          F  C      F Em C
1.)They're just two bit of kids from a bunch of so-ur grapes
2.)for business                 from   Singapore to Widnes
   F                        C Dm         Em                F
3.)kicking in the car chrome  And you're drinking down the Eau de
Cologne
           C Dm       Em               F          C F Em C
3.{cont.})And you're spitting out the Kodachrome

       C          F         G     C   F Em C F G
1,2,3.)You better watch your step

C           Bm          Am          F
Watch who's knocking on your front door
        C                 Bm
Now you know that they're watching
             Am      F
What are you waiting for?
             C          Bm
Think you're young and original
Am        F        C F Em 
Get out before...
C           F          G    C F Em C F G
They get to watch your step


C      Bm            Am     F
Broken noses hung up on the wall
C             Bm                 Am           F
Back slapping drinkers cheer the heavy weight brawl
C        Bm               Am   F            C F Em 
So punch drunk they don't understand at all
C          F          G    
You better watch your step

INSTRUMENTAL

Am  F Em C G F Em Dm  G C Bb F

C   Bm
Bye
  Am           F
I send you all my regards
C         Bm
You're so tough
Am        F
You're so hard
C             Bm          Am         F         G    C
Listen to the hammers falling in the breaker's yard
C          F          G    C
You better watch your step
You better watch your step
Ooh, watch your step



+++++++++++++++++++++++++




michael p mccullough ++++ Klamath Falls OR   # 1.541.884.3278
michael@magick.net  michaelm@cdsnet.net
all moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday (joyce/FW)
http://www.magick.net/~michael/  http://www.magick.net/~michael/music.html

Download PDF

Video Watch Your Step

Elvis Costello - Watch Your Step - 1981
LIVE ON TV

Watch Your Step
Ensemble video with the same singer as 'Pills and Soap,' Elvis Costello again. This one's more upbeat, but still just as paranoid. (His songs work really well for Lost; what can I say?) Lyrics: Don't say a word; don't say anything. Don't say a word; I'm not even listening. I read in the paper about their escape - They're just two bit kids from a bunch of sour grapes. You better watch your step. Watch who's knocking on your front door - Now you know that they're watching, what are you waiting for? Think you're young and original? Get out before They get to watch your step. Every day is full of fun and family spies; They're making heroes out of fall guys. They say it's good for business From Singapore to Widnes - You better watch your step. Broken noses hung up on the wall; Back-slapping drinkers cheer the heavyweight brawl, So punch drunk they don't understand at all. You better watch your step. Every night, go out full of carnival desires, End up in the closing-time choirs: When you're kicking in the car chrome, And you're drinking down the Eau de Cologne, And you're spitting out the Kodachrome. You better watch your step. Bye, I send you all my regards. You're so tough; you're so hard Listen to the hammers falling in the breaker's yard. You better watch your step.

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!

Elvis Costello_Alison
By request for Lisa From BJ the lawnwrecker. So sorry to get Flem in your face. (It really was an accident! But in hindsight.perhaps I was serving up his karma. Lmao!!!) A simple stripped down slow version for your practice/pleasure. Hope you enjoy. Tuned down a step so I could sing along. A Asus2 E Esus2 G#m C#m B B7 D Dsus2 There are a BL of covers for this song on Youtube. If you want to hear a good one check out Hugh Oneill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im2erVPMXSE

There's a Story in Your Voice
... both by damage, and by choice. Sawyer from Lost in a Southern-grunge duet between Elvis Costello and a borderline-crazy Lucinda Williams. Lyrics: Once upon another time, if you had the need I'd step right in the shoes that you've been walking 'Cos someone put the hurt in you for everyone to see And you only have to speak to tell your fortune There's a story in your voice Both by damage and by choice It tells of promises and pleasure And a tale of wine and woe The uneasy time to come And the long way 'round we go to get there Once you told me fairytales, everybody knows But I didn't care for their prediction Now you say you're leaving me and packing up your clothes I finally see you were a work of fiction There's a story in your walk Then you crumble just like chalk I could say that I was sorry But I wouldn't mean it much There are pages I can't touch And something that's been torn out of this chapter Far away, not far enough, 'cos I can still recall How it felt when I read that last sentence Now I go inside some rooms With Gideon in them all And hide myself from all hope of repentance There's a story in your eyes Cheap sunglasses might disguise But when the bedroom light reveals All that bravado and that fright That you cover up in spite Attempts to strip away this fabrication There's a story in your voice Both by damage and by choice It tells of promises and pleasure And a tale of wine and woe The uneasy time to come And the long way 'round we go to get there