Elvis Costello - Strict Time guitar tab

From michael@magick.net Fri May 16 08:02:41 1997

Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 02:02:47 GMT

From: michael p mccullough

To: schnitzi@east.isx.com, guitar@olga.net

Subject: TAB: Strict Time /// Elvis Costello

Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab,alt.fan.elvis-costello

Strict Time

Words & Music by: Elvis Costello

From the album: TRUST

INTRO:

G C G C G C G C

G

There's a hand on a wire that leads to my mouth

I can hear you knocking but I'm not coming out

C

Don't want to be a puppet or a ventriloquist

G

'Cause there's no ventilation on a critical list

D C

Fingers creeping up my spine are not mine to resist

G

Strict time

CHORUS:

D

Toughen up, toughen up

C

Keep your lip buttoned up

G

Strict time

G

Oh the muscles flex and the fingers curl

And a cold sweat breaks out on the sweater girl

Strict time

C

Oh he's all hands, don't touch that dial

The courting cold wars weekend witch trial

G

Strict time

D C

All the boys are straight laced and the girls are frigid

G

The talk is two-faced and the rules are rigid 'cause it's strict time

Strict time

(chorus)

G

You talk in hushed tones, I talk in lush tones

Try to look Italian through the musical Valium

Strict time

C

Thinking of grand larceny

D

Smoking the everlasting cigarette of chastity

Cute assistants staying alive

C G

More like a hand job than the hand jive

Strict time

Chorus

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