Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Poor Fractured Atlas (Guitar)

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D D D D / Dm Dm Dm Dm
D
He's out in the woods with his squirrel gun

Dm
To try and recapture his anger

    G
He's screaming some words at the top of his lungs

 Em                      A
Until he begins to feel younger

   F#dim                    Em
But back at his desk in the city we find

   F#dim                    Em
Our trembling punch-drunken fighter

     B7              Em             B7         Em
Who can't find the strength now to punish the length

        G                        A
Of the ribbon in his little typewriter
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        G           A
           Poor fractured Atlas

        A                 D
           Threw himself across the mattress

        G              A
           Waving his withering pencil

        A                   D
           As if it were a pirate's cutlass

        Dm             C       G
           I'm almost certain

        Bb        A          D
           He's trying to increase his burden

        Em           B7             Em            A
           He said "That's how the child in me planned it,

              A7             D     A       C  G  Bb  A ...
           A woman wouldn't understand it"
I believe there was something that I wanted to say Before I conclude this epistle But you would forgive me for holding my tongue 'Cause Man made the blade and the pistol Yes, Man made the waterfall over the dam To temper his tantrum with magic Now you can't be sure of that tent of azure Since he punched a hole in the fabric
G           A
           Poor fractured Atlas

        A                 D
           Threw himself across the mattress

        G              A
           Waving his withering pencil

        A                   D
           As if it were a pirate's cutlass

        Dm             C       G
           I'm almost certain

        Bb        A          D
           He's trying to increase his burden

        Em           B7             Em            A
           He said "That's how the child in me planned it,

              A7             D     A       C  G  Bb  A ...
           A woman wouldn't understand it"

D A D    A7             D     A       C  G  Bb  A  D A D ...
     A woman wouldn't understand it