Elvis Costello – I Dont Want To Go Home (Guitar)

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This is a song that seems to exist only as a demo (Bonus track in the album My Aim is True. Elvis Costello plays alone on an electric guitar and I thought it was pretty cool so I tried to transcribe it. He often plays an alternate bass pattern while strumming (1 - 5). For example you can alternate G and D (open string) as a bass note on G, and alternate between C and (low)G on C. On "things are going fine", he plays a bass line on the E string like that : -0-0-1-2-3- [Verse]
G                        C                   G
Everybody seemed to have somebody better to talk to

G                                            C
Everybody seemed to have something better to do

                             D                     G
And I was trying to look so mean and dangerous and ended up stepping on her toe

    C                    D
And one minute she was a perfect stranger and the next thing she said was
I thought you ought to know [Chorus]
                 C
I don't wanna go home
Don't get any ideas
                  G
Things are going fine, then they all disappeared

                  D
You don't have to make me any promises

            Am         D
I can leave anytime I know

                             C
Even though I don't wanna go home
Don't get any ideas
                  G
Things are going fine, then they all disappeared

                   D
You don't have to make me any promises

            Am  D      G
I can leave anytime I know
[Verse]
G                                    C                      G
As I was drinking she was making her selection over in the corner

G                                                        C
Still thinking about the dancing perfection out on the floor

                                  D                 G    D        G
I'd like to shake the hand of the man who started "slow dancing" time

    C                 D                    Am     D
And curse the crazy fool who dreamed up "closing time"
[Chorus]
                              C
Even though, I don't wanna go home
Don't get any ideas
                  G
Things are going fine, then they all disappeared

                  D
You don't have to make me any promises

            Am         D
I can leave anytime I know

                              C
Even though, I don't wanna go home
Don't get any ideas
                  G
Things are going fine, then they all disappeared

                  D
You don't have to make me any promises

            Am         D
I can leave anytime I know

                            C G
Even though, I don't wanna go home