Opportunity chords by
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
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Key: E major
Verse 1
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D

Bm
Bm

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D

Bm
Bm

G
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D
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Bm
Bm

Born in the middle of
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A

G
G

F#m
F#m

A
A

a second big baby boom
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G

D
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Bm
Bm

Those noisy boys just might have
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G

A
A

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F#m
F#m

spoken up too soon
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D
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Bm
Bm

Now I'm looking for a little girl,
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I wonder where she's gone
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D

G
G

Big money for families having more than one
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D

Opportunity,
Verse 2
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C

opportunity
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This is your big opportunity
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D

They shop around
Follow you without a sound
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C

Whatever you do now
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D
D

Don't turn around
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Don't turn around
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C
C

Verse 3
Bm
Bm

G
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A
A

Whatever happened to the
pride of the nation?
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They say: "Just wait until you
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A

break formation"
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Bm

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G

D
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Bm
Bm

She was sitting pretty on
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F#m

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a velvet cushion
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Bm
Bm

But her bedroom eyes were like a button
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she was pushing
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She said: "When they get to Dover
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they'll be be taking over"
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I said I'd come to her defense
and then she pulled me over
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Opportunity,
Verse 4
opportunity
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C

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G

This is your big opportunity
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D

They shop around
Follow you without a sound
C
C

Whatever you do now
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G

D
D

G
G

Don't turn around
Don't turn around
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D

C
C

Verse 5
Bm
Bm

G
G

A
A

I'm in the foxhole, I'm down in the trench
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G

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A

I'd be a hero but I can't
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Bm
Bm

stand the stench
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Bm
Bm

The Fitness Institute was full
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F#m

of General Motormen
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Bm
Bm

And the "Hello House of Beauty" wouldn't
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F#m

stand a chance with them
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The chairman of this boredom
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Bm

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is a compliment collector
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D

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I'd like to be his funeral director
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D

Opportunity,
Verse 6
opportunity
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C

G
G

This is your big opportunity
D
D

They shop around
Follow you without a sound
C
C

Whatever you do now
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G

D
D

Don't turn around
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G

D
D

Don't turn around
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G

Please don't
Verse 7
D
D

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G

turn around
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D

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G

Please don't turn around
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D

G
G

Don't turn around
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G

Don't turn around
Don't turn around
D
D

G
G

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