Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Clowntime Is Over (Guitar)

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(Elvis Costello from the album "Get Happy!" Words and Music by Elvis Costello) Transcribed by D. W. Bennett Intro: C F C Csus4 Ab G
C             F
Tears on your blackmail

Am         Dm
Written to ransom

C              F
A point of the fingernail

Am             Dm
Says that he's handsome

C            F
Clowntime is over

Ab           F
Time to take cover

C                 F
While others just talk and talk

Am         Dm                              G
Somebody's watching where the others don't walk

G                C
Clowntime is over
A voice in the shadows Says that his men know He don't step back as expected He's otherwise and unprotected Chorus
C          F
Almost too good to be true

Am          Dm
Who do you? why do you? what do you do?

C                 F
While everybody's hiding under covers

Am                        Dm    Dm/E    Dm/F   G
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.