Tokyo Storm Warning

Tokyo Storm Warning easy guitar chords by Elvis Costello

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  • D

  • F

  • Am

  • G

  • F#

    2
  • Bm

    2
  • C

  • B

    2
  • D

  • F

  • Am

  • G

  • F#

    2
  • Bm

    2
  • C

  • B

    2
  • 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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