Elvis Costello – Tommys Coming Home (Guitar)

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She was counting out the window of the outbound train

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All the poles of the telegraph

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And the rock-a-bye rhythm in the song of the rails

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Couldn't make the sweeper laugh

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Down down down so deep

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Down down drowning in his sleep

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Tommy's coming home again

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And a hawk hovered high above a skinny jackrabbit

G
Pursued by a hungry fox

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And a broker awoke her from a fitful slumber

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Then consulted his shares and his stocks

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Down down down they go

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Down down how he'll never know

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Tommy's coming home again

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And it's almost April Fools' Day

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As he glanced on his paper looking through the veil 

         G
He could see she was really upset

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As she tucked back the ribbon in a velvet box

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As he offered her a cigarette

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Down down down she took a drag

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Now he's covered in a flag

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Tommy's coming home again

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And it's almost April Fools' Day

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Almost April Fools' Day

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And the joke's on everyone

   Bm            Em
He had that premonition

     A                D
Only dead men dwell upon

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But how could he know that only twelve months later

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She would wear her skirt up over her knee

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And in the very same carriage she'd be flattened with roses

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And forget the tears of bigotry

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Down down down they flow

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Now now now it just don't matter anymore

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Tommy made it home again

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When it was almost April Fools' Day

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Almost April Fools' Day

        C              G
And the joke's on everyone

   Bm            Em
He had that premonition

     A                D
Only dead men dwell upon

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Tommy's coming home again

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Tommy's coming home again

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Tommy's coming home