Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Everyday I Write The Book (Guitar)
Key
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Versions
(4)
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
[Intro]
Am Em Fmaj7 G
Am Em Fmaj7 G
[Verse]
(Form A)
C Em Don't tell me you don't know what love is Am Em When you're old enough to know better Am Dm When you find strange hands in your sweater Em When your dreamboat A Turns out to be a footnote Dm I'm a man with a mission Em G In two or three editions, and
[Chorus]
(Form B)
C Em F G I'm giving you a longing look C Em F Everyday, everyday, everyday G C Everyday I write the book
Em F G
[Verse]
(Form C)
Am Chaaa-pter one, we didn't really get along C F C Chapter two, I think I fell in love with you Am You said you'd, stand by me in the middle of Chapter three Dm But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Em G Four, five, and six, and
[Chorus]
C Em F G I'm giving you a longing look C Em F Everyday, everyday, everyday, G C Everyday I write the book
Em F G
[Verse]
(Form C)
Am The wa-ay you walk C The way you talk and try to kiss me and laugh F C In four or five paragraphs Am All your compliments and your cutting remarks Dm Em G are captured here in my quotation marks, and
[Chorus]
C Em F G I'm giving you a longing look C Em F Everyday, everyday, everyday G Am Everyday I write the book Am Em Fmaj G Oo oooooo Everyday I write the book
[Verse]
(Form A)
C Em Don't tell me you don't know the difference Am Em Between a lover and a fighter Am Dm With my pen and my electric typewriter Em Even in a perfect world A Where everyone was equal Dm I'd still own the film rights Em G And be working on the sequel, and
[Chorus]
C Em F G I'm giving you a longing look C Em F Everyday, everyday, everyday G C Everyday I write the book Em F Everyday, everyday G C Everyday I write the book Em F Everyday, everyday, G Am Everyday I write the book (back into following intro but miss the G)
[Outro]
Oooo oooo oooooo
Am Em Fmaj
C Em F G C