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Tokyo Storm Warning chords by 
Elvis Costello 
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Intro 1
D
F
Am
F
D
Am
D
Am
D
Oh, the sky
Verse 1
Am
D
fell over cheap Korean monster- movie scenery
Am
D
Am
And spilled into the mezzanine of
D
Am
the crushed capsule hotel
G
Between the Disney abattoir
and the chemical refinery
Am
D
Am
I knew I was in trouble but
D
Am
D
I thought I was in hell
So you look around the tiny room and
you wonder where the hell you are
Am
D
While the K.K.K. convention
Am
D
are all stranded in the bar
G
They wear hoods and carry shotguns in
the main streets of Montgomery
Am
D
But they're helpless here as babies
Verse 2
'cause they're only here on holiday
D
What do we care if the world is a joke?
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss,
we'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big
bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
F#
Bm
Am
We're only living this instant
D
C
Verse 3
D
Am
Well, the black sand stuck beneath
D
her feet in a warm Sorrento sunrise
Am
A barefoot girl from Naples or was
D
it a Barcelona hi- rise?
G
Whistles out the tuneless theme song
of a hundred cheap suggestions
Am
D
Am
And a million false seductions and
D
all those eternal questions
Verse 4
D
Well, what do we care if the world is a
joke? (Tokyo Storm Warning)
Oh, we'll give it a big kiss,
we'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big
bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
F#
Bm
We're only living this instant
D
Verse 5
So they flew the Super- Constella
Am
D
tion all the way from Rimini
Am
D
And feasted them on fish and chips
Am
D
from a newspaper facsimile
G
Now dead Italian tourist bod
Am
G
ies litter up the Broadway
Am
D
Some people can't be told, you know they have to learn the
Am
hard way
Interlude 1
D
Am
D
Am
D
Am
D
Am
D
Am
D
Verse 6
D
Am
Holidays are dirt- cheap in
D
Am
the Costa del Malvinas
D
Am
D
In the Hotel Argentina they can
hardly tell between us
Am
D
For Teresa is a waitress,
though she's now known as Juanita
Am
D
Am
In a tango bar in Stanley or
D
in Puerto Margarita
G
She's the sweetest and the sauciest
The loveliest and naughtiest
Am
D
She's Miss Buenos Aires
Verse 7
in a world of lacy lingerie
D
What do we care if the world is a joke?
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss,
we'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big
bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
F#
Bm
B
We're only living this in stant
Bm
D
Verse 8
Am
C
D
Japanese God,
Am
D
Jesus robots telling teenage fortunes
For all we know and all we care they
might as well be Martians
Am
D
They say gold paint on the palace gates
comes from the teeth of pensioners
They're so tired of shooting
protest singers
That they hardly mention us
G
While fountains fill with second- hand perfume
Am
and sodden trading stamps
D
They'll hang the bullies and the louts
that dampen down the day
Verse 9
D
What do we care if the world is a joke?
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss,
we'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big
bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
F#
Bm
D
We're only living this instant, hey
Verse 10
D
We braved the cold November air and
Am
the undertaker's curses, saying
D
Am
"Take me to the Folies Bergères, and
D
please don't spare the hearses"
Am
D
Am
For he always had a dream of that
D
revolver in your purse
Am
D
How you loved him 'till you hated
Am
D
him and made him cry for mercy
Am
G
Am
He said "don't ever mention my name there
G
Am
or talk of all the nights you cried
D
D
We've always been like worlds apart,
now you're seeing two nightmares collide"
Verse 11
D
What do we care if the world is a joke?
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss,
we'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big
bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
F#
Bm
We're only living this instant,
D
hey, ow!
Interlude 2
Am
D
D
D
Verse 12
D
Ba- ba- ba- ba- ba- ba!
Outro 1
D
D
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