WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Elvis Costello - Coal-Train Robberies Chords | Ver. 1
[Verse 1]
Am G
Yesterday's coal train came to rest in the bitter
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Cutting
C G F G E
And as the signals took an age to change it was
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Easy pickings
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So you go to the movies where they smash it up
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You want to feel your heart pumping it makes
You feel good
C G
All through the karaoke girls were squealing
The hits
C G E E7
As another Mercedes-Benz gets blown to bits
Am G
While all the time in the camp town theaters
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Of Piccadilly
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They're going to throw a black-face minstrel
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Show for the barefoot children
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That they're always selling
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They'll say "It's quaint" as the guilty ones faint
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And claim they ain't underneath this paint
C G
We interrupt these liberal saints with their
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Whips and watermelon
[Chorus]
Am F Dm G
Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery
Am F Dm G
It's like another world, or it had better be
Am G
So we return to whitewashed pout of his
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Committed lips
C G F
Since he was declared the long lost fountain
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Of youth that drips and drips and drips
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They'll be sending him round from door to door
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To sell you back what's already yours
C G
"So many good deeds, so little time"
C G E E7
Say the advertising agency swine
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When man has destroyed what he thinks he owns
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I hope no living thing cries over his bones
C G
If you don't believe that I'm going for good
C G
You can count the days I'm gone and chop up
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The chairs for firewood
[Chorus]
Am F Dm G
Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery
Am F Dm G
It's like another world, or it had better be
