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Shipbuilding

Elvis Costello

#from the album Punch the Clock
#Am: x-0-2-2-1-0
#C: x-3-2-0-1-0
#D: x-x-0-2-3-2 On most of the song: x-5-7-7-7-5
#Dm: x-x-0-2-3-1 But may also be: x-5-7-7-6-5
#Em: 0-2-2-0-0-0 On the first times: x-x-2-0-0-0
#Em/D#: x-x-1-0-0-0
#Em/D: x-x-0-0-0-0
#G: 3-5-5-4-3-3
#C#dim: x-x-2-3-2-3 Also fits: A7: x-0-2-0-2-0
#Cm7: x-3-5-3-4-3
#Cmaj7: x-3-5-4-5-3 Easier to play: x-3-2-0-0-0
#G7: 3-5-3-4-6-3
#Gm: 3-5-5-3-3-3
#Eb7 x-7-9-7-9-7 Can be played C#dim as well - I don't know.
Am   C    D    D
Em Is it wo Em/D# rth it
Em/D A new winter  C#dim coat and shoes for the  D wife
Dm And a bicycle  Cm7 on the boy's birthda D y
It's just a rumour that was  G spread around town
C By the women and  D children
Soon we'll be  G shipbuilding
Em Well I  Em/D# ask you
Em/D The boy said " C#dim Dad they're going to make me  D to task
Dm But I'll be  Cm7 back by christma D s"
It's just a rumour that was  G spread around town
Cmaj7 Somebody said that  D someone got filled in
Cmaj7 For saying that  D people get killed in
Cmaj7 The result of  D this shipbuilding G
nc           G7
With all the will in the world
Diving for  Eb6 dear life
D When we could be  G diving for pearls
Em Em/D# Em/D C#dim
D Dm Cm7
D It's just a rumour that was  G spread around town
Cmaj7 A telegram or a  D picture postcard
Cmaj7 Within weeks they'll be re- D opening the shipyards
Cmaj7 And notifying the  D next of kin
G Once again
It's all we're  G7 skilled in
We will be  Eb6 shipbuilding D G
With all the  Gm will in the world
Diving for  Eb6 dear life D D D
D When we could be  Em diving for pearls
Em/D# Em/D C#dim
D Dm Cm7 D
G Cmaj7 D Cmaj7
D Cmaj7 D G
It's all we're  G7 skilled in
We will be  Eb6 shipbuilding D G
With all the  Gm will in the world
Diving for  Eb6 dear life D D D
D When we could be  D diving for pearls D D
D When we could be  D diving for pearls D D
D When we could be div Em ing for pearls
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