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Coal-Train Robberies chords by 
Elvis Costello 
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Intro 1
Am
E
Am
F
E
Yesterday's coal
Verse 1
Am
train
F
E
Am
came to rest in the bitter cutting
G
C
Am
F
And as the signals took an age to
Dm
C
Am
E
change it was easy pickings
Dm
So you go to the movies
where they smash it up
F
You want to feel your heart
G
pumping it makes you feel good
C
Am
F
All through the karaoke girls
Dm
were squealing the hits
Am
C
Am
F
As another Mercedes- Benz
Dm
Am
C
Am
E
gets blown to bits
Am
F
While all the time in the Camptown Theatres
Am
of Piccadilly
C
Am
They're going to throw a black- face min
F
Am
C
strel show for the barefoot children
E
That they're always selling
Dm
They'll say "It's quaint"
as the guilty ones faint
F
Dm
And claim they ain't
G
underneath this paint
C
Am
F
Am
We interrupt these liberal saints with
C
Am
E
Am
their whips and watermelon
Verse 2
Am
C
Am
D
Reports are coming in of
F
Am
a coal- train robbery
It's like another world,
D
F#dim
F
E
or it had better be
Verse 3
Am
So we return to whitewashed
pout of his committed lips
C
Since he was declared the
F
G
long lost fountain of youth
C
Am
E
That drips and drips and drips
Dm
They'll be sending him
round from door to door,
F
G
To sell you back what's already yours
Dm
"So many good deeds, so little time"
G
Say the advertising agency swine
Dm
When man has destroyed
what he thinks he owns
F
Dm
F
G
I hope no living thing cries over his bones
C
Am
If you don't believe that
F
I'm going for good
Am
C
Am
F
You can count the days I'm gone and chop
Am
C
E
up the chairs for firewood
Verse 4
Am
D
Reports are coming in of
F
Am
a coal- train robbery
G
Am
D
F#dim
F
G
Am
D
F
Am
It's like another world, or
D
F
it had better
Am
D
F#m
D
Am
be
Outro 1
F
Am
G
D
F#m
F
Am
E
D
Am
F
Am
E
D
F
Am
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F#dim
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