Elvis Costello – A Slow Drag With Josephine (Guitar)

 C
The snitch, the snoop, the tattletale

         F               C
Lead a threadbare up stairs

 Dm            G        C
You broke my heart in two

                               F                  C
And now I haunt the bars and scent those trite affairs

 Am        G      Am         G
She went home to gather her comb

      Am           C
And caught him unawares

 Dm                                 B   C   C#  D
And there was her man enjoying the lay of the land

 Dm                                      A   F#   G
He took a walk in the dark with a dish from the stand

 C                  F
Girls and their creations

 G        F     G         C
Tight in the brightest grenadine

 C        F       G            C
But I'd take all that I've seen

    Dm                  C
For a Slow Drag with Josephine

 G         C C/B Am7 G
Josephine, Josephine

 C        F       G          C
But I'd trade all that I've seen

    Dm                  C
For a Slow Drag with Josephine

 Am                  F             Dm       G
Gavotte, garrotes, Cotillions and slow Arabesques

 Am                  F             Dm       G
Drum-rolls and Farandoles were all made in jest

Am                     F
But when you make that move

Am          F
I can't resist

 Cm                        G
When will you declare your armistice?

 G         C C/B Am7 G
Josephine, Josephine

 C        F       G          C
But I'd trade all that I've seen

    Dm                  C
For a Slow Drag with Josephine

C                             F                  C
In another time and place a different fate was cast

C
He tried to skeddle-daddle-do

Dm                 G
She might have slapped him

                   C              F                C
Just for saying "Grant one more chance before you pass"

       Am        G           Am          G         Am         C
"Then curse the nurse that named me the first or bury me at last"

 Dm
And in three-quarter time

     B     C  C#   D
The true and the false

  Dm                  A F# G
Dancing the "Hesitation Waltz"

 C                   F
Then comes the "Flirtation"

 G      F
And temptation

     G     C
Hip, hip hooray

 C   F     G      C
Listen to what I say

  Dm                  C
Then you can take it away...