Miss macbeth chords by
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello

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Key: E minor
Verse 1
Em
Em
All the children testified
C
C
That Miss Macbeth had a fishbone slide
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G
In her cobweb tresses
Em
Em
Her eyes were black
like first foot coal
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C
Clutched as white as chalk- dust
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Am
Her fin gers sweated india- ink
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C
Em
Em
and poison- pen letters
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A
Em
Em
There is a hungry hanging tree
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Am
D
D
Just below your bedroom window
You can hear her take a broom
Em
Em
C
C
Am
Am
D
D
To beat out a tattoo on the ceiling
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Am
Em
Em
Her bloodless face ran red inside
Am
Am
But was she really evil?
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C
Em
Em
Was she only pantomime?
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A
F#m
F#m
Em
Em
C
C
Baug
Baug
Em
Em
C
C
A
A
F#m
F#m
Verse 2
G
G
D#dim
D#dim
Em
Em
Now the chalk on the wall
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C
Says that somebody saves
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Am
That somebody's face has just been
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G
Em
Em
D
D
Washed off the pavement
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Am
Into a puzzle where petrol
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G
Em
Em
D
D
Will be poisoned by rain
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Am
Miss Macbeth saw her reflection
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G
Em
Em
D
D
As confetti bled its colours down
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C
Csus4
Csus4
the drain
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C
And every
Verse 3
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F
C
C
Am
Am
day she lives out
Bb
Bb
Gm
Gm
F
F
another love song
Dm
Dm
C
C
Am
Am
It's a tearful lament of
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Bb
Gm
Gm
F
F
somebody done wrong
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C
Well how can you miss what
Bb
Bb
Gm
Gm
you've never possessed
Interlude 1
Miss Macbeth?
Gm
Gm
G
G
Em
Em
A
A
F#m
F#m
Em
Em
C
C
Am
Am
Baug
Baug
Em
Em
A
A
F#m
F#m
G
G
Baug
Baug
Em
Em
Verse 4
Em
Em
Well we all should have known
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C
When the children paraded
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Am
They portrayed her in
their fairytales
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G
Em
Em
D
D
Sprinkling deadly nightshade
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Am
And as they tormented her
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G
Em
Em
D
D
She rose to the bait
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Am
Even a scapegoat
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G
Em
Em
D
D
C
C
Csus4
Csus4
Must have someone to hate
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C
And every
Verse 5
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F
C
C
Am
Am
day she lives out
Bb
Bb
F
F
another love song
Dm
Dm
C
C
Am
Am
"You're up there enjoying yourself,
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Bb
Gm
Gm
and I know it's wrong"
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F
Dm
Dm
C
C
But how can you miss what
Bb
Bb
Gm
Gm
you've never possessed
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C
Bb
Bb
Miss Macbeth?
Verse 6
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G
Baug
Baug
Sometimes people are just
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F
Dm
Dm
what they appear to be
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G
Baug
Baug
With no redemption at all
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Am
Baug
Baug
Am
Am
We try to walk upright
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D
When we can't even crawl
Em
Em
Verse 7
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D
Am
Am
Em
Em
Miss Macbeth has a gollywog
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C
She chucks under the chin
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Am
A
A
And she whispers to it tenderly
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Am
G
G
Em
Em
D
D
Then sticks it on a pin
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Am
And it might be coincidence
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G
Em
Em
D
D
But a boy down the lane
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Am
That she said went white as he could do
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G
Em
Em
D
D
C
C
Then doubled over in pain
Verse 8
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F
Dm
Dm
C
C
Am
Am
And everyday she lives out
Bb
Bb
Gm
Gm
F
F
another love song
Dm
Dm
C
C
Am
Am
It's a tearful lament of
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Bb
Gm
Gm
somebody done wrong
Bb
Bb
F
F
Dm
Dm
C
C
Am
Am
And how can you miss what
Bb
Bb
Gm
Gm
you've never possessed
C
C
Miss Macbeth?
Outro 1
Bb
Bb
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C
Bb
Bb
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G
C
C
A
A
Em
Em
C
C
B
B
C
C
A
A
G
G
B
B
Em
Em

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