Elvis Costello – Voice In The Dark (Guitar)

            C     Am7
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

Dm7    G7
ba ba ba ba

C        Am7
ba ba ba ba

Dm7    G7
Ba ba ba ba ba

         C     Am7
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

Dm7    G7    | Am6 | Am6 Gaug       |
ba ba ba

C                            A7
You can read right through a book of matches

Dm7                  G7           
But that won’t make you smart

C                    C7           
You can laugh in the face of watches

F                  Fm              
But time will only break your heart

F             Fm             
Kings reign beneath umbrellas

C            A7
Hide pennies down in cellars

Dm              A7
And money pours down and yet

Dm7              G7
No everyone gets soaking wet

C                       F
When bores and bullies conspire

E7               A7
To stamp out your spark

D7 
Listen for…

    G7                  C
A Voice In The Dark

C                Am7        Dm7     G7
Not a moment too soon as we blue the moon

C          Am7       Dm7     G7   
And a wolf begins to howl in tune 

C               Am7     Dm7   G7
I announced for all mankind a boon 

C                     C7        
Stand aside you big baboon

            F          
Now I’m the a prize invention

           Fm               
You’re the image of yourself

C                          
Forget your cares

        A7             
And disapproving stares

D7
I’m not here to try to jump your borders

G7
Just ask your nieces and daughters 

C              Am7        Dm7         G7
I’m flat as sole, I’m happy as a clam

C              Am7        Dm7         G7    [ C   A/C# D7 G7 ]
But they don’t know the kind of man I am  (alt  for this line only)

C              Am7        Dm7      G7
Little fish swimming in a jealous shoal

       C              C7
Now my net is overflowing

               F                     Fm
And I suddenly seem to be all seeing and all knowing

       C
I’ve got something right there

         A7
That you might want to hear

D7
But have no fear 

G7
If your rent-money is in arrears 

C                               A7
We’ll be striking up a symphony bandstand

Dm7              G7
Long of hair and loose of tooth

C                          C7                 
There’ll be pirouettes and startling handstands

F                                Fm              
And who but acrobats know how to tell the truth

F                 Fm        
When is said that then redundant

C                 A7           
They gallivant in peg-leg pants

Dm7
I‘ll be your servant

       A7       
You’ll be my pal

Dm7                       G7
I’ll be ever faithful you know I shall

C               F              
There’s no fool like an old fool

E7                A7
Who blames it all upon his youth

Dm7            G7                            
When times are tough and you find you’re down

Em7       A7               
Without a star to wish upon

D7                G7            C      
Just listen for a Voice In The Dark

C                        A7           
I was striking through a box of matches

Dm7         G7             
Hoping that one would spark

C                C7              
I heard somebody calling to me 

F           
A voice in the dark

F                    Fm
A sound both wild and gentle

Em7        A7            
Daring and confidential

Dm7                 A7          
I thought there was music playing 

Dm7               G7          
But it was all and only talk

C              F                E7           A7        
When liars and bullies conspire to stamp out your spark

D7                 G           
Fill up that empty space in your heart

Em7                 A7           
Listen up, when the herald says, “Hark”

D7                G7           C        
Believe in just a voice in the dark…