Clowntime Is Over
(Elvis Costello from the album "Get Happy!" - Words and Music by Elvis
Costello)
Transcribed by D. W. Bennett

Intro: C    F    C   Csus4 Ab      G
CC Piano Chord 
             FF Piano Chord 

Tears on your blackmail
AmAm Piano Chord 
         DmDm Piano Chord 

Written to ransom
CC Piano Chord 
              FF Piano Chord 

A point of the fingernail
AmAm Piano Chord 
             DmDm Piano Chord 

Says that he's handsome
CC Piano Chord 
            FF Piano Chord 

Clowntime is over
AbAb Piano Chord 
           FF Piano Chord 

Time to take cover
CC Piano Chord 
                 FF Piano Chord 

While others just talk and talk
AmAm Piano Chord 
         DmDm Piano Chord 
                              GG Piano Chord 

Somebody's watching where the others don't walk
GG Piano Chord 
                CC Piano Chord 

Clowntime is over

A voice in the shadows
Says that his men know
He don't step back as expected
He's otherwise and unprotected

Chorus
CC Piano Chord 
          FF Piano Chord 

Almost too good to be true
AmAm Piano Chord 
          DmDm Piano Chord 

Who do you? why do you? what do you do?
CC Piano Chord 
                 FF Piano Chord 

While everybody's hiding under covers
AmAm Piano Chord 
                        DmDm Piano Chord 
    Dm/EDm/E Piano Chord 
    Dm/FDm/F Piano Chord 
   GG Piano Chord 

Who's making lover's lane safe again for lovers?

Chorus

I like to end with the intro followed by a sustained C12 (open C chord with a
high G added) chord.