The World and His Wife
Elvis Costello • Key:
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The World and His Wife
Elvis Costello
#From: wvaughan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William Vaughan)
#From the "Punch the Clock" Ryko reissue
Intro:
G
G/F#
Em
D
C
G
G
The family circle gathers round
G/F#
from v
Em
ery far and near
To
D
pass around the
C
same remarks they
G
passed away last year
The
G
little girl you dangled on
G/F#
your
Em
knee without mishap
Stirs
D
something in your
C
memory and
G
something in your lap
Chorus:
The
Am
juniper berry has a
Em
very deadly kiss
Bb
I believe that something here is
D
very much amiss
G
But its a living
G/F#
and
Em
this is the life
For the
D
world
C
and his
D
wife
The world
C#
and his
F#m
wife
The
Am
kissing cousins step outside to
Em
cuddle and confess
Bb
She says sweet nothing at all its
D
much more of a mess
She says
G
our mother
G/F#
and
Em
someone elses father
D
Went for two weeks
C
holiday in
G
Taramasalata
G
Daddy went out with the
G/F#
rubbish
Em
and he kept on talking
Be
D
tween Mum and the
C
walls god only
G
knows who does the talking
Chorus
(Verse 3 same as verse 2)
The conversation melts like chocolate down our open jaws
Through the loud appeal of laughter
and the counting score drawers
But later on in the evening through the tears and fol de rol
Come the setimental feelings of the lure of vitriol
Longing thoughts go hankering for the old home overseas
With a blindfold and a national anthem sung in different keys
Chorus,(Except instead of C# and F#m, just play D and C and repeat again)
Speed