E: 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.