Elvis Costello – Jimmie Standing In The Rain (Guitar)

C#m           C#dim7
Third-class ticket in his pocket

D#m               D#dim7
Punching out the shadows underneath the sockets

C#m               G#              C#m
Tweed coat turned up against the fog

(C#m)                Ddim
Slow coaches rolling o'er the moor

F#m                                       G#
Between the very memory and approaches of war

C#m                 F#m
Stale bread curling on a luncheon counter

C#m                  F#m
Loose change lonely, not the right amount

C#m                 F#m
Forgotten man of an indifferent nation

C#m                        F#m
Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station

C#m        C#dim7
Somebody's calling you again

D#m         D#dim7
The sky is falling

F#m      C#m      F#m         C#m
Jimmie's standing in the rain

C#m    C#dim7
Nobody wants to buy

  D#m                   D#dim7
a counterfeited prairie lullaby

C#m      G#       C#m
    In a colliery town

(C#m)             Ddim
The hip flask and fumbled skein

   F#m                                        G#
Of some stage door Josephine is all he'll get now

C#m        F#m
Eyes going in and out of focus

C#m             F#m
Mild and bitter from tuberculosis

C#m            F#m
Forgotten man, indifferent nation

C#m                        F#m
Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station

C#m        C#dim7
Somebody's calling you again

D#m         D#dim7
The sky is falling

F#m      C#m      F#m         C#m
Jimmie's standing in the rain

E
Her soft breath was gentle on his neck

   C#m          G#             C#m
If he could choose the time to die

     G#
Then he would come and go like this

C#m        F#m(2)    C#m
Underneath a painted sky

E        G#7/D#            C#m
She woke up and called him "Charlie" by mistake

   (C#m)            F#m(2) C#m
And then in shame began to cry

E
Tarnished silver band peels off a phrase

G#7/D#
And then warms their hands around the brazier

C#m            F#m
Forgotten man, indifferent nation

C#m                        F#m
Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station

C#m        C#dim7
Somebody's calling you again

D#m          D#dim7
It's finally dawning

F#m      C#m      F#m         C#m
Jimmie's standing in the rain

C#m           C#dim7
Brilliantine glistening

D#m                 D#dim7
Your soft plaintive whistling

C#m          G#        C#m
And your wan wandering smile

(C#m)            Ddim
Died down at The Hippodrome

           F#m
Now you're walking off to jeers,

           E                 Bdim7
the lonely sound of jingling spurs,

            F#m                    B              G#
The "toodle-oos" and "Oh, my dears" down at The Argyle

C#m               F#m
Vile vaudevillians applaud sobriety

C#m                                   F#m
There's no place for a half-cut cowboy in polite society

C#m            F#m
Forgotten man, indifferent nation

C#m                        F#m
Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station

C#m        C#dim7
Somebody's calling you again

D#m         D#dim7
It's finally dawning

F#m             C#m        F#m
Jimmie's standing in the rain

C#m            C#dim7
Somebody's calling you again

D#m         D#dim7
It's finally dawning

F#m         C#m                F#m
Jimmie's standing in the rain