Elvis Costello - Deportee guitar tab

From: wvaughan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William Vaughan)

Subject: CRD's Elvis Costello - Deportee (acoustic)

Deportee (acoustic)

Elvis Costello

From the "Goodbye Cruel World" Ryko reissue

C G Am

In the Arrivderci Roma nightclub bar and grill

F C

Standing in the fiberglass ruins

G F Bb

Watching time stand still

C G

All your troubles you confess

G/B C

To another faceless backless dress

C G/B

Schnaps, cianti, porter and ouzo

Am Am/G Am/F# D7 F

Perond vodka, sambuca I love you so

C

Deportee

G G

There's a tatty beauty talkin in riddles

Am Am/G Am/F# D7 F

Rome burns down and every..body fiddles

C

Deportee

F C Dm

But a thousand dollars won't buy you a Yankee wife unless

F C G F Bb

There's a thousand years of history drowned in this chaser glass

C G

And now I wish that she was mine

Am Am/G Am/F# D7 F

I could have been a king in 6/8 time

C

Deportee

Am D Am

Its a brittle charm but she's had enough

D G

Still she wrote her name upon his paper cuff

C G

And you don't know where to start or where to stop

C F7

All this pillow talk is nothing more than

D7 G G/F G/E G/D (on D string)

Finally talking shop

G C G Am

When I came here tonight my pockets were overflowing

F C G F Bb

They took my return ticket without me even knowing

C G

So I pray to the saints and all the maytrs

G/B C

For the secret life of Frank Sinarta

C F

But none of these things ever come to pass

Am Am/G Am/F# D7 F

In America the law is a piece of ass

C

Deportee So its

C G/B

Schnaps, cianti, porter and ouzo

Am Am/G Am/F# D7 F

Perond vodka, sambuca I love you so

C F C F C

Deportee Poor Deportee Deportee