Elvis Costello - Gods Comic guitar tab

From HISCAP@LUSTA.LATROBE.EDU.AU (PERRETT,Andrew)

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 15:18:27 GMT

Gods Comic Elvis Costello (D.MacManus)

If this song is about a known comedian please drop me a line

with if possible any reference.. (a wager is afoot U C)

Em B7 Em B7 Em G Am A# B

Em B7 Em B7

I wish you'd known me when I was alive

G C D

I was a funny fellow

Am7 B7 C B7

The crowd would hoot and holler for more

Am7 B7 C B7

I wore a drunks red nose for applause

G C D

Oh yes I was a comical priest With a

G C D

joke for the flock and a hand up you fleece

Em B7 Em D

Drooling the drink and the lipstick and grease paint

G C D C

Down the cardboard front of my dirty dog collar

chorus:

G B7 Em B7 Em D

now im dead now im dead now im dead now im dead

G C D

And im going on to meet my reward

Em B7 Em D

I was scared I was scared I was scared I was scared

G C D C G B7 (*2nd time bridge*)

He might never heard Gods Comic

So there he was on a water bed

drinking a cola of a mystery brand

reading an airport novellette

listeing to andrew loydd webbers requiem

He said before it had really begun

I prefer the one about my son

ive been wading through all this unbielevable junk

and wondering if i should have given it all to the monkeys.

Oops bridge

C D

Im goind to take a little trip

C D

down paradises endless shores

G

the say that travel braodens the mind

B7 E

till you cant get you head out of doors

*

Im sitting here on the top of the world

I hang around in the longest night

Until each beast has gone to bead

and then i say god bless and turn out the light

While you lie in the dark afraid to breathe

and you beg and you promise and you bargain and you plead

sometimes you confuse me with santa claus

its the big white beard i suppose

im going up to the pole where you folks die of cold

i might be gone for a while if you need me