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  • Elvis Costello & The Imposters – The Boy Named If Chords Piano & Ukulele

    These are the chords for The Boy Named If by Elvis Costello & The Imposters on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard
    [Intro]
C

[Verse]
Cm
I’m a lucky so and so 
a fortunate stiff
    Cm
You said you’d never knew me but 
I’m the one you want to be with
Cm
If I tumble from a tightrope 
or leap from a cliff
  Cm
I won’t be dashed to pieces 
I’m the boy named “IF”
C
If I disappear and 
I slipper from your view
       C
I just step upon a crack 
and I won’t come back

[Chorus]
 D      G
Imagine me
          D      G   C
And I’ll imagine you too

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    [Verse 2]
Cm
In a hollow of the bed sheet 
or a picture in a frame
    Cm
I’m vivid as a summer’s 
day then never seen again
Cm
Who’ll pay the taxman? 
who’ll place the blame?
Cm
Who’ll point into an empty 
room and whisper my name?
C
If I disappear and 
I slipper from your view
       C
I just step upon a crack 
and I won’t come back

[Chorus 2]
 D      G
Imagine me
          D      G   C
And I’ll imagine you too

[Bridge]
Dm      G
Take my hand
      C            F
We’ll go to “Magic Lantern Land\"
Dm      G
Take my hand
        A                    Dm
See the pictures they’ve projected
Dm      G
Take my hand
      C                F
We’ll fill our pockets up with sand
Dm      G
Dance in frantic passes
         A                  Dm    C
‘Til the grains all turn to glasses

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    [Verse 3]
Cm
Drums begin to navigate 
the band strikes up a riff
Cm
No one will believe you 
but the boy Named If
Cm
Who’ll pay your entrance fee? 
who’ll leave a tip?
Cm
Who’ll say, “Listen here, 
Sunshine don’t you give me no lip”
Cm
Who broke your favourite heart? 
who stops and never starts?
Cm
Who kiss you stupid? it 
must be something you did
Cm
Who’ll keep you satisfied 
after a lover’s tiff?
Cm
It must be some other 
guy no the Boy Named If
C
If I disappear and 
I slipper from your view
       C
I just step upon a crack 
and I won’t come back

[Chorus 3]
 D      G
Imagine me
          D      G   C
And I’ll imagine you too

[Bridge 2]
Dm      G
Take my hand
      C            F
We’ll go to “Magic Lantern Land\"
Dm      G
Take my hand
        A                    Dm
See the pictures they’ve projected
Dm      G
Take my hand
      C                F
We’ll fill our pockets up with sand
Dm      G
Dance in frantic passes
         A                  Dm    C
‘Til the grains all turn to glasses

  • Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Penelope Halfpenny Chords Piano & Ukulele

    These are the chords for Penelope Halfpenny by Elvis Costello & The Imposters on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard
    [Verse 1]
C
Penelope Halfpenny sat 
on the desk
C
Then stretched and grinned
    G
She cracked her spine
G
And so we sinned
      Am              F
While Ruth in red and Beckett 
in blue
Am          F
Into the confessional flew
    Dm             G
And in that box, unlocked 
their dreams
      Dm         G
While lovers ran hands on nylon
Bb
Penelope, Penelope, 
Penelope Halfpennyy

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    [Verse 2]
C
Penelope Halfpenny
C
Asked a great deal
C
Turned on her heel
            G
Through her squandered 
ambitions while marking time
       Am         C     F
Taught lessons to all adjacent 
to crime
         Dm                G
From her days reporting to Scotland 
Yard blotter
Dm              G
Who got who and who got what
    Dm                     G
But none of that mattered, not 
one jot
   Bb                            
To Penelope, Penelope, Penelope, 
             C
Penelope Halfpenn

[Bridge]
Em      Am  D       G        
Ruth in red tumbled from her 
      F         G
bed although, I know
Em         Am    D          
Beckett in blue, hung there 
G                 F
bleeding from the springs below
            G
Penelope, Penelope

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    [Verse 3]
  C
Penelope she came and went
C
We assumed that all her 
savings were spent
    G
Her style of drama and 
her shape of face
     Am                  
Disappeared with the dot 
     F
of a decimal place
      Dm                  G
While Beckett in blue and Ruth 
in red
Dm              G
Might for all I know be dead
    Dm                 G
And to the church door both 
were driven
   Dm                  G
Or could be somewhere, happily 
living
Dm              G
Just in time to be forgiven
  Bb                          
Penelope, Penelope, Penelope, 
             C      N.C.
Penelope Halfpenny

[Outro]
Em Am D G F  G  Em Am D G F
Em Am D G C   Em Am D G F
G  F  G  F  G  F  G