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