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Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab,alt.fan.elvis-costello

Strict Time
Words & Music by: Elvis Costello

INTRO:
GG Piano Chord 
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GG Piano Chord 

There's a hand on a wire that leads to my mouth
I can hear you knocking but I'm not coming out
CC Piano Chord 

Don't want to be a puppet or a ventriloquist
GG Piano Chord 

'Cause there's no ventilation on a critical list
DD Piano Chord 
                                    CC Piano Chord 

Fingers creeping up my spine are not mine to resist
GG Piano Chord 

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CHORUS:

DD Piano Chord 

Toughen up, toughen up
CC Piano Chord 

Keep your lip buttoned up
GG Piano Chord 

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GG Piano Chord 

Oh the muscles flex and the fingers curl
And a cold sweat breaks out on the sweater girl
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CC Piano Chord 

Oh he's all hands, don't touch that dial
The courting cold wars weekend witch trial
GG Piano Chord 

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DD Piano Chord 
                                       CC Piano Chord 

All the boys are straight laced and the girls are frigid
GG Piano Chord 

The talk is two-faced and the rules are rigid 'cause it's strict time
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GG Piano Chord 

You talk in hushed tones, I talk in lush tones
Try to look Italian through the musical Valium
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CC Piano Chord 

Thinking of grand larceny
DD Piano Chord 

Smoking the everlasting cigarette of chastity
Cute assistants staying alive
CC Piano Chord 
                                 GG Piano Chord 

More like a hand job than the hand jive
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Chorus



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