Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab,alt.fan.elvis-costello
Strict Time
Words & Music by: Elvis Costello
From the album: TRUST
INTRO:
G C G C G C G C
G
There's a hand on a wire that leads to my mouth
I can hear you knocking but I'm not coming out
C
Don't want to be a puppet or a ventriloquist
G
'Cause there's no ventilation on a critical list
D C
Fingers creeping up my spine are not mine to resist
G
Strict time
CHORUS:
D
Toughen up, toughen up
C
Keep your lip buttoned up
G
Strict time
G
Oh the muscles flex and the fingers curl
And a cold sweat breaks out on the sweater girl
Strict time
C
Oh he's all hands, don't touch that dial
The courting cold wars weekend witch trial
G
Strict time
D C
All the boys are straight laced and the girls are frigid
G
The talk is two-faced and the rules are rigid 'cause it's strict time
Strict time
(chorus)
G
You talk in hushed tones, I talk in lush tones
Try to look Italian through the musical Valium
Strict time
C
Thinking of grand larceny
D
Smoking the everlasting cigarette of chastity
Cute assistants staying alive
C G
More like a hand job than the hand jive
Strict time
Chorus
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