Welcome to the Working Week chords by Elvis Costello

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Verse 1
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D 
Now that your picture's in the paper
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being rhythmically admired
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And you can have anyone
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that you have ever desired
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A 
All you gotta tell me now is why,

Verse 2
why, why, why?
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Bm 
Welcome to the working week
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Oh, I know it don't thrill you,
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I hope it don't kill you
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Bm 
E 
Welcome to the working week
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You gotta do it till you're through it,
A 
so you better get to it

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Verse 3

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All of your family had to kill to survive

And they're still waitin' for

their big day to arrive

But if they knew how I felt,

they'd bury me alive

Verse 4
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Bm 
Welcome to the working week
G 
Oh, I know it don't thrill you,
D 
I hope it don't kill you
G 
Bm 
E 
Welcome to the working week
G 
You gotta do it till you're through it,
A 
so you better get to it

Verse 5
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I hear you sayin', "Hey,
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E 
F#m 
G 
A 
the city's alright," when you only read about it in books
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Bm 
Spend all your money gettin' so  convinced
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A 
that you never even bother to look
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Sometimes I wonder if we're
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Bm 
livin' in the same land
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G 
Why d'you want to be my friend when I feel
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like a juggler running out of hands?