Miss macbeth chords by
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello

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

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Gb

another love song
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Ebm

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Db

Bbm
Bbm

It's a tearful lament of
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B

G#m
G#m

somebody done wrong
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B

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F#

D#m
D#m

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A#m

And how can you miss what
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G#m
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you've never possessed
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Miss Macbeth?
Outro 1
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