Elvis Costello – Veronica (Guitar)

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      C           F             C/E     G/D  G
Is it all in that pretty little head of yours?

          C          F            C   G
What goes on in that place in the dark?

       C              F          C/E        G/D    G
Well I used to know a girl and I would have sworn

         F        G      Csus4  C
That her name was Veronica

         C              F        C/E         G/D  G
Well she used to have a carefree mind of her own

      C        F           C       G
And a delicate look in her eye

C          F          C/E            G/D     G
These days I'm afraid she's not even sure

       F         G    Csus4  C
If her name is Veronica

          Dm                 Dmmaj7
Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes

  Dm7        G
Veronica has gone to hide?

    Dm               Dmmaj7
And all the time she laughs at those

    Dm7                G
Who shout her name and steal her clothes

  F          F#dim7
Veronica - Veronica - Veronica

        C         F           C/E    G/D      G
Did the days drag by? Did the favour wane?

       C             F            C       G
Did he roam down the town all the time?

         C           F               C/E         G/D   G
Will you wake from a dream, with the wolf at the door

         F         G       Csus4  C
Reaching out for Veronica?

        C       F          C/E    G/D  G
Well it was all sixty-five years ago

         C             F                C       G
When the world was the street where she lived

      C         F           C/E         G/D  G
And a young man sailed on a ship in the sea

       F            G      Csus4  C
With a picture of Veronica

        Am              Fm
On the "Empress of India"

    Bb                              C
And as she closed her eyes upon the world

    Am                                   Fm
And picked upon the bones of last week's news

    Bb                            Bb Bb
She spoke his name out loud again

          Dm                 Dmmaj7
Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes

  Dm7        G
Veronica has gone to hide?

    Dm               Dmmaj7
And all the time she laughs at those

    Dm7                G
Who shout her name and steal her clothes

  F          F#dim7
Veronica - Veronica - Veronica

  C      F           C/E       G/D  G
Veronica sits in her favourite chair

        C         F         C      G
And she sits very quiet and still

         C        F              C/E       G/D  G
And they call her name that they never get right

       F               G      Csus4     C
And if they don't then nobody else will

        C              F        C/E         G/D  G
But she used to have a carefree mind of her own

     C        F           C    G
With devilish look in her eye

        C       F       C/E          G/D  G
Saying "You can call me anything you like

       F         G     Csus4  C
But my name is Veronica"

          Dm                 Dmmaj7
Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes

  Dm7        G
Veronica has gone to hide?

    Dm               Dmmaj7
And all the time she laughs at those

    Dm7                G
Who shout her name and steal her clothes

  F          F#dim7
Veronica - Veronica - Veronica

  C
Veronica