Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Heathen Town (Guitar)

             C
They used to call it Sin City

    G                  C    C7
Now it's gone way past that

F
Painting the town and then burning it down

         G              G7
Now even that's old hat

              C                      Em
Now there's a choir of angels at the fall of Rome

G             C    F
Singing Ave Maria, home sweet home

            C
It's just a heathen town

       Em        Am              C7
I hear only evil as my tongue is tightened

  F              Dm           G7
I used to be god-fearing, now I'm so frightened

           F
'Cause the devil will drag you under

       F         Fm          C
By the sharp tailfin of your checkered cab

      G
And I can't sit down

          G7                C
I'm going overboard in this heathen town

   C
It starts as a flirtation

         G                  C     C7
And ends up as an expensive habit

     F
With one eye on her place in debtor's prison

                   G                 G7
And the other on a girl dressed as a rabbit

            C                    Em
Now you can live forever, endure fits and starts

        G              C
But the only stake you cannot raise

       F
Is the one driven through your heart

            C
It's just a heathen town

       Em        Am              C7
I hear only evil as my tongue is tightened

  F              Dm           G7
I used to be god-fearing, now I'm so frightened

           F
'Cause the devil will drag you under

       F         Fm          C
By the sharp tailfin of your checkered cab

      G
And I can't sit down

          G7                C
I'm going overboard in this heathen town

      G
And I can't sit down

          G7                F            C
I'm going overboard in this heathen town

F Fm C (x8)
In this heathen town...