Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Two Little Hitlers (Guitar)

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Two Little Hitlers (from the album *Armed Forces*)
A                 E
Why are we racing to be so old?

A                             E
I'm up late pacing the floor I won't be told

A                          E             D
You have your reservations I'm bought and sold

D
I'll face the music I'll face the facts

E
Even when we walk in polka dots and chequer slacks

A                    E
Bowing and squawking Running after titbits

A                     E7
Bobbing and squinting Just like a nitwit
(CHORUS)
D
Two little Hitlers will fight it out until

E                                      A
One little Hitler does the other one's will

  D       E            D           E
I will    return     I will    not burn
Down in the basement
A                       E
I need my head examined I need my eyes excited

A                          E7
I'd like to join the party But I was not invited

A                       E7
You make a member of me I'll be delighted

D
I wouldn't cry for lost souls, you might drown

E
Dirty words for dirty minds Written in a toilet town

A                   E7
Dial me a Valentine She's a smooth operator

A                      E7
It's all so calculated She's got a calculator

A                              E7
She's my soft touch typewriter And I'm the great dictator
(Chorus)
                      A
A simple game of self-respect

E                          A
You flick a switch and the world goes off

E                     A
Nobody jumps as you expect

E                                   F#m           E
I would have thought you would have had enough by now

A                         E7
You call selective dating For some effective mating

A                                E7
I thought I'd let you down, dear But you were just deflating

A                           E7
I knew right from the start We'd end up hating

D
Pictures of the merchandise Plastered on the wall

E
We can look so long as we don't have to talk at all

A                             E7
You say you'll never know him He's an unnatural man

A                             A
He doesn't want your pleasure He wants as no one can

A                             E7
He wants to know the names of All those he's better than
(Chorus)
  D      E
I will return

  D        E
I will not burn  . . . . .