Little Palaces
Elvis Costello • Key:
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Little Palaces
Elvis Costello
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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
In Choco
D
late
G
Town all the
C
trains are paint
D
ed
G
brown, and the
C
silver
D
paper of the
G
wrapper.
There's a
Em
dapper litt
D
le
G
man, and he
C
wears a wax
D
mu
G
stache
That he
C
twists with nic
D
otine
G
fingers as he
C
drops his ciga
D
rette
G
ash.
And
D
someone comes and sweeps it up, and
G
then he doffs his cap
And there's a
D
rat in someone's bedroom, and they're
G
shutting someone's trap.
And they'll
Em
soon be pulling
D
down the little palaces.
And the
Em
doors swing back
D
and
G
forward, from the
C
past into
D
the
G
present
And the
C
bedside cru
D
ci
G
fixion turns from
C
wood to
D
phospho
G
rescent.
And they're
D
moving problem families from the
G
South up to the North,
D
Mother's crying over some soft
G
soap opera divorce,
And you
C
say you didn't do it, but you
F
know you did of
D
course,
And they'll
Em
soon be pulling
D
down the little palaces.
It's like
Em
shouting in
D
a
G
matchbox, filled with
C
plasterboard
D
and
G
hope,
Like a
C
picture of
D
Prince
G
William in the
C
arms of John
D
the
G
Pope.
There's a
Em
world of good
D
in
G
tentions, and
C
pity in
D
their
G
eyes,
T
A
he seda
C
ted homes of
D
En
G
gland, are th
C
eirs to vanda
D
li
G
ze.
So you
D
knock the kids about a bit,
G
because they've got your name,
And you
D
knock the kids about a bit, un
G
til they feel the same.
And they
Em
feel like knocking
D
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)
You're the
Em
twinkle in
D
your
G
daddy's eye, a
C
name you
D
spray and
G
scribble,
You made the
C
girls all turn
D
their
G
heads, and in
C
turn they made
D
you
G
miserable.
To
Em
be the heir
D
ap
G
parent, to the
C
kingdom of
D
the
G
invisible.
So you
D
knock the kids about a bit,
G
because they've got your name,
And you
D
knock the kids about a bit, un
G
til they feel the same.
And they
Em
feel like knocking
D
down
yeah they
C
feel like knocking
G
down,
Oh they
Em
feel like knocking
D
down the little palaces.
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