Coal-Train Robberies

Coal-Train Robberies easy guitar chords by Elvis Costello

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  • Intro 1

    Yesterday's 
    coal 
    Verse 1
    train 

    came 
    to 
    rest 
    in 
    the 
    bitter 
    cutting 

    And 
    as 
    the sig
    nals 
    took 
    an 
    age 
    to 

    change 
    it 
    was 
    easy 
    pickings 

    So 
    you 
    go 
    to 
    the movies 

    where they 
    smash 
    it 
    up 

    You 
    want 
    to 
    feel 
    your 
    heart 

    pumping 
    it 
    makes 
    you 
    feel 
    good 

    All 
    through 
    the 
    karaoke 
    girls 

    were squealing 
    the 
    hit

    As an
    other 
    Mer
    cedes- 
    Benz 

    gets 
    blown 
    to 
    bit

    While 
    all 
    the 
    time 
    in 
    the 
    Camptown Theatres 

    of 
    Piccadilly 

    They're 
    going 
    to throw 
    black- 
    face 
    min

    strel 
    show 
    for 
    the 
    barefoot 
    children 

    That 
    they're 
    always 
    selling 

    They'll 
    say 
    "It's 
    quaint" 

    as 
    the 
    guilty 
    ones 
    faint 

    And 
    claim 
    they 
    ain't 

    under
    neath 
    this 
    paint 

    We 
    interrupt 
    these 
    liberal 
    saint
    s with 

    their 
    whips 
    and 
    watermel
    on 

    Verse 2
    Reports 
    are 
    coming 
    in 
    of 

    a coal- 
    train 
    robbery 

    It's 
    like 
    another 
    world, 

    or 
    it 
    had 
    bet
    ter 
    be 

    Verse 3
    So 
    we 
    re
    turn 
    to 
    whitewashed 

    pout 
    of 
    his 
    committed 
    lips 

    Since 
    he 
    was 
    de
    clared 
    the 

    long 
    lost 
    fountain 
    of 
    youth 

    That 
    drips 
    and 
    drips 
    and 
    drips 

    They'll 
    be 
    send
    ing 
    him 

    round 
    from 
    door 
    to 
    door, 

    To 
    sell 
    you 
    back 
    what's 
    already 
    yours 

    "So 
    many 
    good 
    deeds, 
    so 
    little 
    time" 

    Say 
    the 
    advertising 
    agency 
    swine 

    When 
    man 
    has 
    destroyed 

    what 
    he 
    thinks 
    he 
    owns 

    hope 
    no 
    living 
    thing 
    cries 
    over 
    his 
    bones 

    If 
    you 
    don't 
    believe 
    that 

    I'm 
    going 
    for 
    good 

    You 
    can 
    count 
    the 
    days 
    I'm 
    gone 
    and 
    chop 

    up 
    the chairs 
    for 
    fire
    wood 

    Verse 4

    Reports 
    are 
    coming 
    in 
    of 

    a coal- 
    train 
    robbery 

    It's 
    like 
    another 
    world, 
    or 

    it 
    had 
    bet
    ter 

    be 

    Outro 1


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