Ron Sexsmith – Everyday I Write The Book (Guitar)

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Every Day I Write the Book Elvis Costello: Ron Sexsmith version with Costello live This version of the song sounds best w/ Travis picking. (think "Dust in the Wind" or "The Boxer") [Intro] C G F G x2 [Verse 1]
          C                          Em                 Am
Don't tell me you don't know what love is when you're old enough to

       Em                Am                       Dm
know better.  When you find strange hands in your sweater, when

          Em         Am                          Dm
your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote, I'm a man with a

            G
mission in two or three editions, and?
[Chorus]
 C   G            F      G        C       G
I'm giving you a longing look ev'ryday, ev'ryday,

      F         G                C
ev'ryday, ev'ryday I write the book.
Intro x1 [Verse 2]
           Am                                      C
Chapter one, we didn't really get along, Chapter two, I think I

F                C    C B    Am
fell in love with you.  you said you'd stand by me in the

                                       Dm
middle of Chapter three, but you were up to your old tricks in Chapters

 G
four, five, and six, and?
[Chorus]
 C    G         F       G       C         G
I'm giving you a long look ev'ryday, ev'ryday,

      F         G                C
ev'ryday, ev'ryday I write the book.
Intro x1 [Verse 3]
                Am                                           C
The way you walk, the way you talk and try to kiss me and laugh in four

     F       C   C B
or five paragraphs.

Am
All your compliments and your cutting remarks are

 Dm                         G
captured here in my quotation marks, and?
[Chorus]
 C   G            F      G        C       G
I'm giving you a longing look ev'ryday, ev'ryday,

      F         G                C
ev'ryday, ev'ryday I write the book.
[Verse 4]
       C                          Em        Am
Don't tell me you don't know the diff'rence,   between a lover and a

  Em              Am                      Dm         Em
fighter.  With my pen and my electric typewriter, even in a

                      Am                          Dm
perfect world where ev'ryone was equal, I'd still own the film rights

        G
and be working on the sequel.
[Coda]
C                  G              F                  G
I'm giving you a longing look ev'ryday, ev'ryday, I write the book and

  C         G         F       G                    C
ev'ryday, ev'ryday ev'ryday  ev'ryday I write the book.
Intro part played out till end