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