Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Strict Time (Guitar)

          G                   C
There's a hand on a wire that leads to my mouth

      G                         C               G C G C
I can hear you knocking but I'm not coming out

C
Don't want to be a puppet or a ventriloquist

                                                 G C G C
'Cause there's no ventilation on a critical list

D                                C                  G
Fingers creeping up my spine are not mine to resist

         C  G  C
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D
Toughen up, toughen up

                            C
Keep your lip buttoned up

       G    C G C
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       G                C
Oh the muscles flex and the fingers curl

      G                     C                    G
And a cold sweat breaks out on the sweater girl

C       G      C
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C
Oh he's all hands, don't touch that dial

                                            G
The courting cold wars weekend witch trial

C      G       C
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D                                       C
All the boys are straight laced and the girls are frigid

                                                          G
The talk is two-faced and the rules are rigid 'cause it's strict time

       C      G C
Strict time

G                         C
You talk in hushed tones, I talk in lush tones

G                           C                   G
Try to look Italian through the musical Valium

C      G       C
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C
Thinking of grand larceny

                                       D
Smoking the everlasting cigarette of chastity

C                                 G
More like a hand job than the hand jive

C      G       C
Strict time