Shipbuilding ------------ Elvis Costello, Clive Langer (P) 1983
The Robert Wyatt version from 1982 is very much the same, only shorter. The key is transposed two and a half tones up, his version is in Am.
Lyrics are from the _Punch the Clock_ inner sleeve
Am: x-0-2-2-1-0 C: x-3-2-0-1-0 D: x-x-0-2-3-2 On most of the song: x-5-7-7-7-5 Dm: x-x-0-2-3-1 But may also be: x-5-7-7-6-5 Em: 0-2-2-0-0-0 On the first times: x-x-2-0-0-0 Em/D#: x-x-1-0-0-0 Em/D: x-x-0-0-0-0 G: 3-5-5-4-3-3 C#dim: x-x-2-3-2-3 Also fits: A7: x-0-2-0-2-0 Cm7: x-3-5-3-4-3 Cmaj7: x-3-5-4-5-3 Easier to play: x-3-2-0-0-0 G7: 3-5-3-4-6-3 Gm: 3-5-5-3-3-3 Eb7 x-7-9-7-9-7 Can be played C#dim as well - I don't know.
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Em/D# Is it worth it Em/D A new winter coat and shoes for the wife
And a bicycle on the boy's birthday
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
By the women and children
Soon we'll be shipbuilding
Em/D# Well I ask you Em/D The boy said "Dad they're going to make me to task
But I'll be back by christmas"
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The result of this shipbuilding nc G7 With all the will in the world
