Tabbed by: Roger K.
email: roger31@aol.com
Five Small Words - Elvis Costello (from "National Ransom")
Intro: E D A (4x)
EDAA
Maybe you'll recognize in time
EDAA
Maybe one day you will discover
EDAA
All the pain that lies behind
EDAEA
You and your unfortunate love
GC/GG
Somebody might be more
GB
Unsuitable and strange
EG#mC#mF#m
With eyes that offer everything
B A D (E D A (2x))
And are capable of danger
EDAA
My mind turns over lies you told
EDAA
Things said to your other lover
EDAA
Sweet as they had been to me
EDAA
You lay there telling them to each other
GC/GG
Now I stand outside the door
GB
My head is filled with phrases
EG#mC#mF#m
Inside someone's calling out
BAD
Their voices rise in praises
EDAEDA
Five Small Words: "Don't want you me anymore?"
EDAEDA
Five Small Words (well, who is keeping score?)
BA
Coward that you are, you would faithlessly implore
B
"Baby please don't leave me"
A
"Why don't you believe me?"
A (E D A (2x))
"Why did you deceive me?"
EDAA
It didn't take some shiny dagger
EDAA
Tattooed fingers grip and hone
EDAA
I walked under some dark ladder
EDAA
I heard your final loving moan
GC/GG
All your indiscretions are
GB
So merciful and brief
EG#mC#mF#m
Genteel poison sprinkled on
BAD
Your Spa--nish handkerchief
EDAEDA
Five Small Words: "Don't you love me anymore?"
EDAEDA
Five Small Words (well, who is keeping score?)
BA
The coward that you are, you would faithlessly implore
B
"Baby please don't leave me"
A
"Why don't you believe me?"
A (E D A (2x))
"Why did you deceive me?"
EDAA
Maybe in time you'll want me more
EDAA
Accidentally like this .45
EA
This .44
Outro: (E D A (16x)) ... E