Green Shirt Chords

Song: Green shirt
Artist: Elvis Costello
Composer: Elvis Costello
Album: This years model
 
Tabbed by DJ   24th June 2014
 
CAPO: 3rd fret
(Will then sound in the recorded key of C)
 
IGNORE THE CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS that the website
displays, they are generated automatically from a
generic database and often don't show the best
options for a particular chord progression. Just use
the voicings suggested in the text column numbers.
 
Emphasise the bass note of each chord,
particularly in the Choruses.
NOTE that there are two variations each for the
A and the A7 chords, differentiated with an asterisk
 
Chord names & fret positions are relative to the capo
A      = x02220      A/E   = 00222x or xx2220
D      = xx0232      D/F#  = 20023x or xx4232
A7     = x02223      G     = 32003x or xx5433
A6     = x02222      A *   = x02225
Asus4  = x02230      E     = 022100
A7 *   = x02020      A/C#  = x4xxxx
A7sus4 = x02030
 
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[Intro]
      A
e |---0-------------|
B |---2--2----------|
G |------2--2-------|
D |---------2---2---|
A |-------------0---|
E |-----------------|
 
[Verse 1]
          A
There's a smart young woman, on a light blue screen,
                              D
That comes into my room every night,
        A7            A6           A          Asus4
And she takes all her red, yellow, orange and green,
A7 *        A7sus4     A    Asus4         D
    And she turns them into black and  ...white
 
[Chorus]
        A/E            D/F#
But you tease, and you flirt,
        G             D/F#       A/E        D
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt,
        G
You can please yourself,
D                        A *
But somebody's gonna get it!
 
[Link]
       G               D          A *
Better cut off all i - dentifying labels,
     G                 D              E
Be - fore they put you on the torture table
 
[Verse 2]
        A
'Cause, somewhere in the Quisling Clinic,
          A
There's a short-hand typist...
                                D
...Taking seconds over minutes,
      A7        A6       A     Asus4
She's listening into the Venus line,
      A7 *        A7sus4
She's picking out names,
       A       Asus4            D
I hope none of them are mine
 
[Chorus]
        A/E            D/F#
But you tease, and you flirt,
        G             D/F#       A/E        D
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt,
        G
You can please yourself,
D                        A *
But somebody's gonna get it!
 
[Bridge]
G                      D
    Never said I was a stool- pigeon,
G                      D
    Never said I was a diplomat,
G                D
    Everybody is under suspicion,
    A                            D
But you don't want to hear about that
 
[Chorus]
        A/E            D/F#
But you tease, and you flirt,
        G             D/F#       A/E        D
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt,
        G
You can please yourself,
D                        A *
But somebody's gonna get it!
 
[Link]
       G              D
Better send a begging letter...
       A             D
To the big investi - gation,
G                D                A          D
   Who put these finger prints on my imagi - nation?
 
[Chorus]
    A/E            D/F#
You tease, and you flirt,
        G             D/F#       A/E        D
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt,
        G
You can please yourself,
     D                        A/C# A
But somebody's gonna get it! 
 
[Coda]
        G
You can please yourself,
     D                        A/C# A
But somebody's gonna get it!
       G
You can please yourself,
     D                        A/C# A
But somebody's gonna get it!
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