Elvis Costello – Let Him Dangle (Guitar)

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Let Him Dangle - Elvis Costello (D. MacManus)
Em
Bentley said to Craig let him have it Chris

C                                B7
They still don't know today just what he meant by this

Em
Craig fired the pistol but was too young to swing

        C                       B7
so the police to Bentley in the very next thing
Chorus:
           Em                 C              B7
Let him dangle let him dangle Do do do do do do do do do
Bentley had surrendered, he was under arrest when he gave Chris Craigs that fatal request Craig shot Sidney Miles, he took Bentley's word the prosecution claimed as they charged him with murder... Bridge
         G          D            Am7
Well its hard to imagine its the times that have changed

              G                                                D
when theres a murder in the kitchen that is brutal and strange

   G           D          Am7                        D
If killing anybody is a terrible crime why does this blood thirsty chorus

     B7                     Em                C              B7
come round from time to time   Let him dangle  do do do do do  do do do do
They said Derek Bentley was easily led well whats that to the women that sidney miles wed though guilty was the verdict and craig had shot him dead the gallows were for bentley and still she never said... Not many people thought that bentley would hang but the word never came the phone never rang outside wandsworth prison there was horror and hate as the hangman shook bentleys hand to calculate his weight.... From a welfare state to society murder bring back the noose is always heard whenever thos swine are under attack but it wont make you even it wont bring him back... Em C B7