Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello - Little Palaces guitar tab

Little Palaces

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Introduction: Em D G (3 1 4)

C D G (3 1 4)

C D G (3 1 4)

D G D Em (2 1 1 strum)

Em D G C D G C D G

In Chocolate Town all the trains are painted brown, and the silver paper of the wrapper.

Em D G C D G

There's a dapper little man, and he wears a wax mustache

C D G C D G

That he twists with nicotine fingers as he drops his cigarette ash.

D G

And someone comes and sweeps it up, and then he doffs his cap

D G

And there's a rat in someone's bedroom, and they're shutting someone's trap.

Em D

And they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces.

Em D G C D G

And the doors swing back and forward, from the past into the present

C D G C D G

And the bedside crucifixion turns from wood to phosphorescent.

D G

And they're moving problem families from the South up to the North,

D G

Mother's crying over some soft soap opera divorce,

C F D

And you say you didn't do it, but you know you did of course,

Em D

And they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces.

Em D G C D G

It's like shouting in a matchbox, filled with plasterboard and hope,

C D G C D G

Like a picture of Prince William in the arms of John the Pope.

Em D G C D G

There's a world of good intentions, and pity in their eyes,

=A0 C D G C D G

The sedated homes of England, are theirs to vandalize.

D G

So you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,

D G

And you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.

Em D

And they feel like knocking down the little palaces.

Instrumental: Em D G (3 1 4)

C D G (3 1 4)

C D G (3 1 4)

D G D (4 2 2)

Em D G (3 1 4)

C D G (3 1 4

C D G (3 1 4)

D G D Em (2 1 1 strum)

Em D G C D G

You're the twinkle in your daddy's eye, a name you spray and scribble,

C D G C D G

You made the girls all turn their heads, and in turn they made you miserable.

Em D G C D G

To be the heir apparent, to the kingdom of the invisible.

D G

So you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,

D G

And you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.

Em D

And they feel like knocking down

C G

yeah they feel like knocking down,

Em D

Oh they feel like knocking down the little palaces.

Repeat instrumental twice

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