Little Palaces (Costello Elvis)

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Little Palaces
yarlas@psych.ucla.edu

Introduction:    
Em
  
D
  
G
   (3 1 4)
                 
C
   
D
  
G
   (3 1 4)
                 
C
   
D
  
G
   (3 1 4)
                 
D
   
G
  
D
  
Em
  (2 1 1 strum)

Em
      
D
    
G
            
C
               
D
  
G
              
C
      
D
            
G

In Chocolate Town all the trains are painted brown, and the silver paper of the wrapper.
          
Em
         
D
  
G
           
C
           
D
 
G

There's a dapper little man, and he wears a wax mustache
        
C
              
D
     
G
             
C
             
D
     
G

That he twists with nicotine fingers as he drops his cigarette ash.
    
D
                                   
G

And someone comes and sweeps it up, and then he doffs his cap
              
D
                                     
G

And there's a rat in someone's bedroom, and they're shutting someone's trap.
            
Em
              
D

And they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces.


        
Em
               
D
   
G
                 
C
         
D
   
G

And the doors swing back and forward, from the past into the present
        
C
          
D
 
G
                 
C
       
D
      
G

And the bedside crucifixion turns from wood to phosphorescent.
            
D
                                
G

And they're moving problem families from the South up to the North,
D
                              
G

Mother's crying over some soft soap opera divorce,
        
C
                             
F
               
D

And you say you didn't do it, but you know you did of course,
            
Em
              
D

And they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces.


          
Em
          
D
 
G
                     
C
            
D
   
G

It's like shouting in a matchbox, filled with plasterboard and hope,
       
C
           
D
      
G
              
C
            
D
   
G

Like a picture of  Prince William in the arms of John the Pope.
          
Em
            
D
 
G
             
C
       
D
     
G

There's a world of good intentions, and pity in their eyes,
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C
           
D
  
G
            
C
            
D
 
G

The sedated homes of England, are theirs to vandalize.


       
D
                           
G

So you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,
        
D
                             
G

And you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.
         
Em
                 
D

And they feel like knocking down the little palaces.

Instrumental:  
Em
 
D
 
G
  (3 1 4)
               
C
  
D
  
G
   (3 1 4)
               
C
  
D
  
G
   (3 1 4)
               
D
  
G
  
D
  (4 2 2)
               
Em
 
D
 
G
  (3 1 4)
               
C
  
D
  
G
   (3 1 4
               
C
  
D
  
G
   (3 1 4)
               
D
  
G
  
D
  
Em
   (2 1 1 strum)

           
Em
         
D
    
G
              
C
        
D
         
G

You're the twinkle in your daddy's eye, a name you spray and scribble,
             
C
              
D
     
G
             
C
              
D
   
G

You made the girls all turn their heads, and in turn they made you miserable.
   
Em
          
D
 
G
              
C
          
D
   
G

To be the heir apparent, to the kingdom of the invisible.
       
D
                           
G

So you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,
        
D
                             
G

And you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.
         
Em
                 
D

And they feel like knocking down
          
C
                  
G

yeah they feel like knocking down,
        
Em
                 
D

Oh they feel like knocking down the little palaces.


Repeat instrumental twice

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Описание аккордов к песне (Генератор аккордов)

• Em ↓

• D ↓

  

• G ↓

  

• C ↓

  

• F ↓