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From: [email protected] (Phillip Charles Saunders)
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 22:33:44 EST
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Subject: c/costello.elvis/Waiting.For.The.End.Of.The.World.crd
WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
Elvis Costello
|G CF|G CF|G CF|G CF|
G C F G C
The man from the television crawled into the train.
F G C F G CF
I wonder who he’s gonna stick it in this time.
C Bb F C Bb
Ev’ryone was looking for a little entertainment,
F G C F G C
So they’ll prob’bly pull his hands off when they find out his name.
F D F C
And then they shut down the power all along the line,
D F C
And we got stuck in the tunnel where no lights shine.
D F C
They got to touching all the girls who were too scared to call out.
D
Nobody was saying anything at all.
G C F G CF
We were waiting for the end of the world.
G C F G CF
Waiting for the end of the world,
G C F G
Waiting for the end of the world.
Em G
Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you’re comin’,
‘Cause you really started something.
|G CF|G CF|G CF|G CF|
G C F G C F
Things got back to normal as the train began to roll again.
G C F G C F|G CF|G CF|
We got to the station about twenty minutes later.
C Bb F C Bb F
The legendary hitchhiker says he knows where it’s at.
G C F G C
Now he’d like to go to Spain, or somewhere like that,
F D F C
With his two-tone Bible and his funny cigarettes,
D
His sun tan lotion and his castenets.
G C F G CF
He was waiting for the end of the world,
G C F G CF
Waiting for the end of the world,
G C F G
Waiting for the end of the world.
Em G
Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you’re comin’,
‘Cause you really started something.
|G CF|G CF|G CF|G
C F G C F G
And then the bride, the groom, the congregation and the priest
C F G
All got onto the train when we were three stations east, yeah.
|G CF|G CF|G CF|G CF|
C Bb F C Bb
Hiding from a scandal in the national press,
F G C F G C F
They had been trying to get married since they stole the wedding dress.
D F C
You may see them drowning as you stroll along the beach.
D
But don’t throw out the lifeline till they’re clean out of reach.
G C F G CF
Waiting for the end of the world.
G C F G CF
Waiting for the end of the world.
(repeat)
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Roy M. Randall, FG | I am not responsible for the above…
Inconsequential Systems, Inc. | SOCIETY IS TO BLAME!
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