Chords for ELVIS COSTELLO - Watching The Detectives (1978)

[E] _ _ _ I'm [Am] a bad boy, I'm a _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
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bad boy, _ [F] _ _ _
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_ I'm _ _ [F] _ a bad boy
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This _ _ _ girl's [F] _ _
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_ _ _ _ not one [F] with her defects
[A] Elephant, shrink, rat, sulker, [D] it
_ Red dogs under her [G] legal _ [F] legs
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[C] _ _ _ [A] _ She looks so good that he [Ab] gets [F] down and _ _
Facts, _ _ [C] she's watching the _ detectives
_ [G] Oh, he's so _ cute, _ _ _ [C] watching the _ detectives
Oh, and [G] they [Em]
shoot, [F] shoot, [D] shoot, [Am] shoot
They beat him up until the teardrops [Dm] start
But he can't be [F] wounded when the sky [C] blue _ _
Mark, _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ _ Mark
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Black shadow that _ _ [F] troubleside
Invisible silver sun and down my spine
[Am] Cut the paper, take an [A] off, then close
[F] Close up with a sign that says we never [A] close
You snatch a junior, match a cigarette
[Dm] She pulls the house out [F] with a fist like a magnet
[Am] I don't know [A] how much more of this I [B] can _ _ _ take
[C] _ _ [A] She's smiling [G] her nails [Gb] while [Dm] they're dragging the _ [Ebm]
[A] leg
_ _ [C] She's watching the _ detectives
_ [G] Oh, he's so cute, _ _ _ _ [C] watching the _ _ _ detectives
Oh, [G] and they [Em] shoot, [F] shoot, _ [D] shoot, [Am] shoot
They beat him up until the teardrops _ [Dm] start
But he can't be [F] wounded when the sky [C] blue _ _
Mark, _ _ [G] _ _ _
Mark
Oh, _ _ [Am] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [F] he's so [Am] _
cute, [D] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Em] watching the detectives
Oh, [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
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_ you _ _ _ _ [Am] _
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[Abm] _ [A] _ [D] think you're alone until you realize you're [Gm] in it now
[F] Fear is here to stay, love is [Dm] here for if, is, or [Am] they
Call it instant justice when it's past the legal limit
[F] Someone's scratching at the window, I wonder who is it
[Am] The detectives come to [A] check if you belong to the [F] parents
Better to hear the worst about their daughters _ disappearing
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Nearly took a miracle [Am] to get you to stay
[F] It only [Em] took my little fingers to blow you _ a
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] Watching the _ detectives
_ _ [C] Come get you, _ [F] _ _ [G] watching the _ _ [B] _ [C] detectives
_ [Am]
I get so angry when the teardrops [F] start
But you can't be wounded when you got [C] no _
Mark, _ [G] got no heart, _ _ when you got [Am] no _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Watching the _ detectives
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