From: [email protected] (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