Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Turning The Town Red (Guitar)

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As recorded by Elvis Costello & The Attractions (1984 recording from the 1987 Album OUT OF OUR IDIOT) [Intro] C G F G C G F G [Verse 1]
C      G    F      G    C
You've been taught that this won't do

     F      Am                     Em
They put me in the picture but the film turned blue

  Eb              G           C    G
A glimpse of you, turning the town red

  F            Fm                    C
A head full of brand new words and a mouth full of shocks

F        Fm                  C
You're a big boy now, with a face to stop clocks
[Chorus]
G
Turning the town red

F
Turning the town red

             Fm
(Turning the town red)
[Verse 2]
              C                Ab               Cm
You made your bed, and now you better dream in it

    Fm                 Cm         Ab         G         F
The word that you once whispered, now you're screaming it

C    G    Am   G    C
Days drip down like bad wallpaper

F  Am    Bdim      Adim   Em                               G
Pictures plastered on the ivy creeper between your old toy soldiers

Em       A7
And your mother's sleepers
[Chorus]
G
Turning the town red

F
Turning the town red

F
(Turning the town red)
[Bridge]
              G    C          Ab            Cm
You made your bed, you better face the consequence

  Fm                G            Ab   G       F
A black pool opened at my feet into a dream sequence
[Chorus]
G
Turning the town red, aah

F                     D
Turning the town red, aah

G
Turning the town red, aah

F
Turning the town red

F
(Turning the town red)
[Verse 3]
C          G         F       G
You know I heard her call my name

         C
Least, I think that's what she said

       F       Am   B                        Em        B
Surely I'm the correlation that's going to because her shame

    G                   A
So, what's she doing in my bed?
[Chorus]
G                     Em
Turning the town red, aah

F                     D
Turning the town red, aah

G                     Em
Turning the town red, aah

F                     D
Turning the town red, aah

G                     Em
Turning the town red, aah

F                    C G
Turning the town red,  aah
[Outro] Em F G Em F G Em F G Em F G Em F C G F