American Without Tears Chords by Elvis Costello

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Outside in you [C] whose feet was on the [G] sprightly, but my hotel room as usual, [A] just freezing and [D] _ _ unkind.
_ _ [G] On TV they prosecute [C] anyone [G] who's excited, so I put on my [D] overcoat and went down [G] to find.
_ In Revlon and Grimblin' [C] they captured [G] my heart through the strain of a piano [A] and a cocktail [D] _ _ murderess. _
She [G] was singing that it's too late, [C] I agreed with [G] that _ part. _ _
Flew two English girls who had [D]
changed [G] their address, [C] oh it seems we've been crying [G] _ _ years _ and for _ years. _
[Em] Now I don't speak any English, [C] first American [G] without tears, first [C] [G] American without tears.
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_ _ _ _ _ One had been a beauty queen [C] and the other [G] was a friend.
They had known rogues and rascals, _ [A] _ [D] insurers and presarios.
[G] While the boys were licking Hitler, [C] they had something to [G] defend.
The man armed with chewing gum, [D] he'd fire a nylon [G] hose, my _ bicycle factory.
[C] As they sounded [G] the siren and returned into the dance hall, [A] she knew he [D]
was the one.
[G] Though he wasn't all our answer, [C] she laughed when [G] he told her, I'm the sheriff of Nottingham [A] and this is [G] little John.
[C] Oh it seems we've been crying _ [G] _ _
years _ and for years.
_ [Em] Now I don't speak any English, [C] first American [G] without tears, [C] first [G] American without _ _ tears. _
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[G] _ _ _ [A] Had a duck in _ Southampton, [D] who did tearful [A] _ goodbyes.
_ Newsreel _ commentators said, [B] _
cheerio, she [E] had _ rights. _
_ [A] Soon they'll be finding [D] the cold [A] facts and lies. _
New words for suspenders and [E] young [A] girls' _ _ backsides. _
Now I'm in America [D] and running [A] from you, like my _ grandfather before me [B] walked the streets [E] of New York.
_ [A] And I think of all the women, [D] I pretend me [A] more than you.
_ And I open my mouth and I can't seem to talk.
Oh [D] it seems we've been crying [A] _ _ years _ and for years.
_ [F#m] Now I don't speak any English, first [D] American [A] without tears, [D] first American [A] without tears.
Oh [D] it seems we've been crying [A] _
years _ and for _ years.
_ _ [F#m] Now I don't speak any English, [D] first [A] American without tears, first American without _ tears. _
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Tears.
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