Everyday I Write The Book by Elvis Costello, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

Everyday I Write The Book

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Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus on 25 August 1954) is an internationally known English singer-songwriter. Gaining prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-70s, he burst into fame with his critically acclaimed 1977 debut 'My Aim Is True', still one of the most successful debuts of all time. He soon did much work in the genres of punk rock, power pop, and New Wave after he formed Elvis Costello & The Attractions.

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Don't tell me you don't know what love is when you're old enough to
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know better When you find strange hands in your sweater when
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your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote I'm a man with a
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mission in two or three editions and

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I'm giving you a long look ev'ryday ev'ryday
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ev'ryday ev'ryday I write the book
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1st Verse:
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Chapter one we didn't really get along Chapter two I think I
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fell in love with you you said you'd stand by me in the
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middle of Chapter three but you were up to your old tricks in Chapters
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four five and six and

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I'm giving you a long look ev'ryday ev'ryday
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ev'ryday ev'ryday I write the book
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2nd verse:
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The way you walk the way you talk and try to kiss me and laugh in four
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or five paragraphs All your compliments and your
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cutting remarks are captured here in my quotation marks and

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I'm giving you a long look ev'ryday ev'ryday
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ev'ryday ev'ryday I write the book
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Don't tell me you don't know the diff'rence between a lover and a
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fighter With my pen and my electric typewriter even in a
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perfect world where ev'ryone was equal I'd still own the film rights
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and be working on the sequel

{coda}
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I'm giving you a long look ev'ryday ev'ryday
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ev'ryday ev'ryday I write the book