Pay It Back chords by
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello

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Key: G major
Intro 1
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Ab

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Ab
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Verse 1
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Stop thief! You're
gonna come to grief
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Db

Gb
Gb

Db
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If you don't take a little more care
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Cm
Cm

Fm
Fm

Db
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You're gonna get more than the family plan
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Db
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Ab
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From this one shoestring affair
Fm
Fm

Bb
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Db
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I may be crazy buy I can't contemplate
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Gb
Gb

Being trapped between the
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Cm
Cm

doctor and the magistrate
Verse 2
Cm
Cm

Ab
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Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
Bbm
Bbm

Db
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Pay it back one of these days
Ab
Ab

Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
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Pay it back one of these days
Verse 3
Ab
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And then they told me I
Fm
Fm

could be somebody
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Db
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Gb
Gb

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If I didn't let too much get in my way
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Gb

Ab
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Fm
Fm

Db
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And I tried so hard just to be myself
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Db
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Ab
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But I keep on fading away
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And then the lights went out
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, I didn't know what to do
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If I could fool myself,
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Cm
Cm

then maybe I'd fool you
Verse 4
Ab
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Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
Db
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Pay it back one of these days
Ab
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Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
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Pay it back one of these days
Verse 5
Ab
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I wouldn't say that I
was raised on romance
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Gb
Gb

Db
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Gb
Gb

Ab
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Let's not get stuck in the past
Fm
Fm

Db
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Ab
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I love you more than everything in the world
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Ab
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I don't expect that will last
Fm
Fm

Bb
Bb

Db
Db

Ab
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They told me everything was guaranteed
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Gb

Somebody somewhere
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Cm
Cm

must've lied to me
Verse 6
Ab
Ab

Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
Db
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Pay it back one of these days
Ab
Ab

Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
Db
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Pay it back one of these days
Verse 7
Db
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Ab
Ab

Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
Db
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Pay it back one of these days
Ab
Ab

Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
Db
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Pay it back one of these days
Verse 8
Db
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Gb
Gb

Ab
Ab

Oh one of these days I'm
gonna pay it back
Pay it back

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