Elvis Costello - Clowntime Is Over guitar tab

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.