Miss macbeth chords by
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello

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Key: E minor
Verse 1
Gm
Gm

All the children testified
Eb
Eb

That Miss Macbeth had a fishbone slide
Bb
Bb

In her cobweb tresses
Gm
Gm

Her eyes were black
like first foot coal
Eb
Eb

Clutched as white as chalk- dust
Cm
Cm

Her fin gers sweated india- ink
Eb
Eb

Gm
Gm

and poison- pen letters
C
C

Gm
Gm

There is a hungry hanging tree
Cm
Cm

F
F

Just below your bedroom window
You can hear her take a broom
Gm
Gm

Eb
Eb

Cm
Cm

F
F

To beat out a tattoo on the ceiling
Cm
Cm

Gm
Gm

Her bloodless face ran red inside
Cm
Cm

But was she really evil?
Eb
Eb

Gm
Gm

Was she only pantomime?
C
C

Am
Am

Gm
Gm

Eb
Eb

Daug
Daug

Gm
Gm

Eb
Eb

C
C

Am
Am

Verse 2
Bb
Bb

F#dim
F#dim

Gm
Gm

Now the chalk on the wall
Eb
Eb

Says that somebody saves
Cm
Cm

That somebody's face has just been
Bb
Bb

Gm
Gm

F
F

Washed off the pavement
Cm
Cm

Into a puzzle where petrol
Bb
Bb

Gm
Gm

F
F

Will be poisoned by rain
Cm
Cm

Miss Macbeth saw her reflection
Bb
Bb

Gm
Gm

F
F

As confetti bled its colours down
Eb
Eb

Ebsus4
Ebsus4

the drain
Eb
Eb

And every
Verse 3
Ab
Ab

Eb
Eb

Cm
Cm

day she lives out
C#
C#

Bbm
Bbm

Ab
Ab

another love song
Fm
Fm

Eb
Eb

Cm
Cm

It's a tearful lament of
C#
C#

Bbm
Bbm

Ab
Ab

somebody done wrong
Eb
Eb

Well how can you miss what
C#
C#

Bbm
Bbm

you've never possessed
Interlude 1
Miss Macbeth?
Bbm
Bbm

Bb
Bb

Gm
Gm

C
C

Am
Am

Gm
Gm

Eb
Eb

Cm
Cm

Daug
Daug

Gm
Gm

C
C

Am
Am

Bb
Bb

Daug
Daug

Gm
Gm

Verse 4
Gm
Gm

Well we all should have known
Eb
Eb

When the children paraded
Cm
Cm

They portrayed her in
their fairytales
Bb
Bb

Gm
Gm

F
F

Sprinkling deadly nightshade
Cm
Cm

And as they tormented her
Bb
Bb

Gm
Gm

F
F

She rose to the bait
Cm
Cm

Even a scapegoat
Bb
Bb

Gm
Gm

F
F

Eb
Eb

Ebsus4
Ebsus4

Must have someone to hate
Eb
Eb

And every
Verse 5
Ab
Ab

Eb
Eb

Cm
Cm

day she lives out
C#
C#

Ab
Ab

another love song
Fm
Fm

Eb
Eb

Cm
Cm

"You're up there enjoying yourself,
C#
C#

Bbm
Bbm

and I know it's wrong"
Ab
Ab

Fm
Fm

Eb
Eb

But how can you miss what
Db
Db

Bbm
Bbm

you've never possessed
Eb
Eb

Db
Db

Miss Macbeth?
Verse 6
Bb
Bb

Daug
Daug

Sometimes people are just
Ab
Ab

Fm
Fm

what they appear to be
Bb
Bb

Daug
Daug

With no redemption at all
Cm
Cm

Daug
Daug

Cm
Cm

We try to walk upright
F
F

When we can't even crawl
Gm
Gm

Verse 7
F
F

Cm
Cm

Gm
Gm

Miss Macbeth has a gollywog
Eb
Eb

She chucks under the chin
Cm
Cm

C
C

And she whispers to it tenderly
Cm
Cm

Bb
Bb

Gm
Gm

F
F

Then sticks it on a pin
Cm
Cm

And it might be coincidence
Bb
Bb

Gm
Gm

F
F

But a boy down the lane
Cm
Cm

That she said went white as he could do
Bb
Bb

Gm
Gm

F
F

Eb
Eb

Then doubled over in pain
Verse 8
Ab
Ab

Fm
Fm

Eb
Eb

Cm
Cm

And everyday she lives out
C#
C#

Bbm
Bbm

Ab
Ab

another love song
Fm
Fm

Eb
Eb

Cm
Cm

It's a tearful lament of
Db
Db

Bbm
Bbm

somebody done wrong
Db
Db

Ab
Ab

Fm
Fm

Eb
Eb

Cm
Cm

And how can you miss what
Db
Db

Bbm
Bbm

you've never possessed
Eb
Eb

Miss Macbeth?
Outro 1
Db
Db

Eb
Eb

C#
C#

Bb
Bb

Eb
Eb

C
C

Gm
Gm

Eb
Eb

D
D

Eb
Eb

C
C

Bb
Bb

D
D

Gm
Gm

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