Declan Patrick MacManus nacido en Londres el 25 de agosto de 1954, conocido como Elvis Costello, es un músico, cantante y compositor británico.
Se inició en la escena pub-rock londinense a mitad de los 70 desde donde vio llegar como observador privilegiado la New Wave y el punk, movimientos con los que se asoció.
En 1975 McManus llevaba una aparente vida convencional, casado y con hijo, y empleándose en diferentes trabajos administrativos. No obstante
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From uunet!inmos!bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk!svrobins Mon Oct 19 18:50:42 PDT 1992 Article: 3035 of alt.guitar.tab Path: nevada.edu!uunet!inmos!bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk!svrobins From: [email protected] Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab Subject: CRD: Baby Plays Around (E.Costello) Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: 19 Oct 92 15:56:53 GMT Organization: Inmos Limited Lines: 51
Here's the chords/lyrics to "Baby Plays Around" from Elvis Costello's "Spike" album. Someone requested this a while back but it's taken me a while to get around to typing it in.
It's in CHORD format, ie run it through the CHORD program that was recently posted and you get a nice postscript songsheet.
-------------------------- cut here ------------------------------- {t:Baby Plays Around} {t:words & music by D.P.A. Mac Manus & Cait O'Riordan} {define:A/G 1 0 2 2 2 - 3} {define:B/D# 0 2 4 4 1 - -} {define:Dm/F 0 1 3 2 0 - 1 } {define:Bm7-5 0 0 3 2 3 2 0} {define:D/F# 0 2 3 2 0 0 2} {define:A7/E 0 0 2 0 2 0 0} {define:C#m7-5 0 0 0 0 2 4 -} {define:D#^o 0 2 1 2 1 - -} {define:F^o 0 1 2 2 3 - -} {define:B7/D# 0 2 0 2 1 - -} {define:F6 0 1 3 2 3 1 1} {define:E11 0 2 0 1 0 0 0} {define:C#m7 4 1 2 1 3 1 - } [A]It's not [A7]open [D] to discussion any[Dsus]more, [A]She's out[B/D#] again tonight, [E] And I'm a[C#m7]lone once more, [D]She's all I [Bm7]have [Bm7-5]worth [C#m7] waiting [F#m]for, but [B/D#]baby plays A[Bm7]round. [E] [A]And so it [A/G]seems I've always [D/F#]been the last to [Dm/F]know, [A]To hold [B/D#]on to that girl, [E] I had to [C#m7]let her go. [D/F#] I wish to [Dm/F] God I [C#m7]didn't love her [F#m]so, [B/D#] 'Cause [E11]baby plays A[A]round.
[A/G]I try to be [D/F#]strong, [A7/E] hold on to my [D]pride.[C#m7-5] [Em7] She doesn't [A7]even know it's [D]wrong, how much I [D#^o]hurt inside.[F^o] And heaven knows I've tried but [F#m] ba[Bm7]by plays a[Dm]round, just a [Esus]play thing.[F^o] Its hard to reconcile the facts I'm [E7]facing.
[A]It's not [A7]open [D] to discussion any[Dsus]more, [A]She walk's[B/D#] those shiny streets, [E] I walk the [C#m7]worn out floor. [D]She's all I [Bm7]have [Bm7-5]worth [C#m7] living [F#m]for,