Veronica Chords by Elvis Costello

I remember this place.
I remember her in this place.
Sometimes she was happy, you know, she'd say,.
oh so-and-so said such-and-such and somebody said this and that.
and she'd talk about who knows what.
And one minute you'd be here and the next minute it'd be 40 years later.
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So you just sit there and bounce around the years with her.
[C] .
[B] [C] [G] Is it [Em] all in that pretty little [G] head of [C] yours.
that goes on in that place in the dark?.
When I used to know a girl and [G] I couldn't [C] swine.
that her [G] name was [C] Veronica.
Oh, she used to ever care for me, [G] my little [C] roll,.
and I'd get a good look in her eye.
These days I'm afraid she's not even sure.
if her name was Veronica.
[Dm] She used to go to [C#] waves in Atlanta,.
[F] [G] [Dm] oh, you [F] [G] can't see them [F] close.
Veronica, [F#] Veronica, [G] [F] Veronica.
[Am] [G] [F] [Em] [G] If [C] the days drag by in the [G] fading [C] rain,.
if you [F] roam down the [C] town all the [G] [C] while,.
will you [F] wake from your [C] dream of the [G] world.
that [F] thought you [G] now were [C] Veronica?.
Well, [F] it was all [C] 65 [G] years ago.
when the [C] world was as pretty as she lived.
and a [F] young man [C] sailed on a [G] ship in the [F] sea.
with a [C] picture on the [Am] monitor.
I'm the Empress of [F] Indiana.
[Fm] [A#] And as she closed her eyes [C] upon the [Em] world.
[Am] and picked upon the balls of [Fm] last week's news,.
[A#] she spoke his name out loud again.
[Dm] Do you suppose that [C#] [Dm] .
[G] [Dm] [C#] [F] .
[G] we'd see the [F] coast?.
[F#m] [F#] Veronica, Veronica, [D#] Veronica.
[G] [C] [G] [F] .
[C] [G] [C] Veronica sits in the favor of the church,.
[F] very [C] quiet and still.
And they [F] call her a [Em] name that they never get [F] right,.
and [G] if they don't [C] know, nobody else will.
She used to ever care for [G] me, my little roll,.
the devil's put me in a rut,.
[C] so [F] you can't [C] call me anything like my name, Veronica.
[Dm] Do you suppose that [C#] we'd see [F] .
[G] [Dm] [C#] [Dm] .
[G] the [F] coast?.
Veronica, [F#m] [F#] Veronica.
[F#m] [G] Veronica sits [Em] in the favor [G] of [C] .
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[C#] the church,.
Sometimes we'd just sit there and she wouldn't say anything.
and I wouldn't say anything.
And you [G] could try and work out what was going on in her head,.
but I think it's something we don't understand,.
not yet [A] anyway.
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