Clowntime Is Over

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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:15:18 -0400
From: "D. W. Bennett" 

 
Subject: c/costello_elvis/clowntime_is_over.crd

Clowntime Is Over
(Elvis Costello from the album "Get Happy!" - Words and Music by Elvis
Costello)
Transcribed by D. W. Bennett

Intro: 
 C    
 F    
 C   
 Csus4 
 Ab      
 G

 C             
 F
Tears on your blackmail

 Am         
 Dm
Written to ransom

 C              
 F
A point of the fingernail

 Am             
 Dm
Says that he's handsome

 C            
 F
Clowntime is over

 Ab           
 F
Time to take cover

 C                 
 F
While others just talk and talk

 Am         
 Dm                              
 G
Somebody's watching where the others don't walk

 G                
 C
Clowntime is over

A voice in the shadows
Says that his men know
He don't step back as expected
He's otherwise and unprotected

Chorus

 C          
 F
Almost too good to be true

 Am          
 Dm
Who do you? why do you? what do you do?

 C                 
 F
While everybody's hiding under covers

 Am                        
 Dm    
 Dm/
 E    
 Dm/
 F   
 G
Who's making lover's lane safe again for lovers?

Chorus

I like to end with the intro followed by a sustained C12 (open C chord with a
high G added) chord.