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