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Elvis Costello

Tom: A

(play stacatto)
A5 
             G5       D5     C5 
Bells are chiming for victory
D5	       C5      G5      A5
There's a page back in history
   D5  A5
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They came back to the world that they fought for
D5          C5      G5
Didn't turn out just like they thought
A5  D5  A5
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D         E           D/F#       E/G#
Here is a song to sing to do the measuring
D/A			      E/B                    (guitar+bass)
What do you lose, what do you gain, what do you win?

Nine years later a child is born
There's a record, so you put it on
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Nine years more, if we're lucky now
Nine-year-old puts his money down
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Every scratch. every click, every heartbeat
Every breath that I held for you
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There's a stack of shellac and vinyl
Which is yours now and which is mine?
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Here is a song to sing to do the measuring
What do you lose, what do you gain, what do you win?

A5                   D5         
Bass and treble heal every hurt
                C5  G5
There's a rebel in a nylon shirt
A5            G5    D5
But the words are a mystery, I've heard
F#5                      B5         (F#m and Bm on organ)
'Til you turn it down to 33 and 1/3
A5            G5       D5   C5  D5
'Cos it helps with the elocution
             C5   G5
Corporations turn revolutions
A5 G5 A5
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So don't just weep and shed
Just change your name instead
What do you lose when it all goes to your head?

I heard something peculiar said:
"Perhaps he's got a shot and now he's dead"
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Bells are chiming and tears are falling
It creeps up on you without a warning
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Every scratch, every click, every heartbeat
Every breath that I bless
I'd be lost, I confess
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A G  A G  to fade