Elvis Costello – Waiting For The End Of The World (Guitar)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## <[email protected]> From: [email protected] (Phillip Charles Saunders) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 22:33:44 EST X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.2 3/2/90) To: [email protected] Subject: c/costello.elvis/Waiting.For.The.End.Of.The.World.crd |G CF|G CF|G CF|G CF|
    G            C   F      G                C
The man from the television crawled into the train.

  F      G              C        F       G      CF
I wonder who he's gonna stick it in this time.

C            Bb      F     C           Bb
Ev'ryone was looking for a little entertainment,

F          G                 C         F         G            C
So they'll prob'bly pull his hands off when they find out his name.

    F         D                         F        C
And then they shut down the power all along the line,

           D                         F         C
And we got stuck in the tunnel where no lights shine.

             D                                 F           C
They got to touching all the girls who were too scared to call out.

D
Nobody was saying anything at all.

         G              C   F       G       CF
We were waiting for the end of the world.

G               C   F       G     CF
Waiting for the end of the world,

G               C   F       G
Waiting for the end of the world.

     Em          G
Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're comin',
'Cause you really started something. |G CF|G CF|G CF|G CF|
G                  C      F      G              C      F
Things got back to normal as the train began to roll again.

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We got to the station about twenty minutes later.

     C         Bb   F     C              Bb         F
The legendary hitchhiker says he knows where it's at.

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Now he'd like to go to Spain, or somewhere like that,

F         D                      F         C
With his two-tone Bible and his funny cigarettes,

   D
His sun tan lotion and his castenets.

        G              C   F       G     CF
He was waiting for the end of the world,

G                C  F       G     CF
Waiting for the end of the world,

G               C   F       G
Waiting for the end of the world.

      Em         G
Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're comin',
'Cause you really started something. |G CF|G CF|G CF|G
C     F        G          C               F               G
And then the bride, the groom, the congregation and the priest

                   C               F               G
All got onto the train when we were three stations east, yeah.
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C               Bb    F       C             Bb
Hiding from a scandal in the national press,

      F         G            C       F           G                 C     F
They had been trying to get married since they stole the wedding dress.

D                                   F              C
You may see them drowning as you stroll along the beach.

             D
But don't throw out the lifeline till they're clean out of reach.

G               C   F       G     CF
Waiting for the end of the world.

G               C   F       G     CF
Waiting for the end of the world.
(repeat) -- Roy M. Randall, FG | I am not responsible for the above... Inconsequential Systems, Inc. | SOCIETY IS TO BLAME! [email protected] |