Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Everyday I Write The Book (Ukulele)

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Transcribed by Kellie G From 1983 'Punch the Clock' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_the_Clock The song is in an A/B/C format, making it a little tricky 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              Em                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

Repeat 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
The wa-ay you walk

                                        C
The way you talk and try to kiss me and laugh

           Em        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

Repeat Chorus

C     Em          F        G
  I'm giving you a longing look

     C         Em        F
Everyday, everyday, everyday,

G Am (return to intro) 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

Repeat Chorus (Form B) x3

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)

Oooo oooo oooooo Am / Em / Fmaj C / Em / F / G / C to when you would like to end