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Song title:      God's Comic
Original Album:	 Spike

Words and Music by Elvis Costello
Copyright © 1989 Warner Bros. Records
Published by Warner Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Chords:
Em  022000    Am  x02210 or 577555
B7  x2120x    A#  x13331 or 688766
G   320003    B   x24442 or 799877

[play: 4/4| Em B7 | Em B7 | Em G | Am A# B |]



VERSE1:
Chords:
Em  022000    D    xx0232 or x57775
B7  x2120x    Am7  x02010 or 575555
G   320003    C    x32010 or x35553
G/C x30003

| Em             B7          | Em      B7
    I wish you'd known me when I was a-live

| G               G/C   D
    I was a funny fel - low,

| Am7               B7     | C          B7
    The crowd would hoot and holler for more

| Am7        B7        | C          B7
    I wore a drunk's red nose for applause

| G                | C       D
    Oh, yes, I was a comical priest

     | G                      | C            D
With a joke for the flock and a hand up your fleece

| Em           B7          | Em            D
  Drooling the drink and the lip-stick and grease-paint

| G                  | C           D       | C    | G B7 |
    Down the cardboard front of my dirty dog collar



CHORUS1:
Chords:
Em  022000    G  320003 or 355433
B7  x2120x    C  x32010 or x35553
D   xx0232

      | Em            B7          | Em            D
Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead

      | G         | C         D
And I'm going on to meet my reward

    | Em            B7          | Em            D
I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared

| G        | C          D         | C   | G B7 |
    He might never have heard God's Comic



VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
Em  022000    D    xx0232
B7  x2120x    Am7  x02010 or 575555
G   320003    C    x32010 or x35553
G/C x30003

| Em             B7     | Em    B7 
    So, there he was on a water-bed, 

| G                    | G/C     D
    Drinking a cola of a mystery brand,

| Am7                | Em   B7
    Reading an airport novellette,

| Am7                       | C        B7    | Em
    Listening to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requi - em

| G                     | C        D
    He said before it had really begun,

   | G           | C     | D
I prefer the one a-bout my son

        | Em             B7         | Em       D
I've been wading through all this unbelievable junk

  | G                        | C         D         | C     | G B7 |
And wondering if I should have given the work to the monkeys



CHORUS2:
Chords:
Em  022000    G  320003 or 355433
B7  x2120x    C  x32010 or x35553
D   xx0232

      | Em            B7          | Em            D
Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead

      | G         | C         D
And I'm going on to meet my reward

    | Em            B7          | Em            D
I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared

| G             | C     D         | C   | G [stop chord]
    He might have never heard God's Comic



BRIDGE:
Chords:
C  x32010    B7  x2120x
D  xx0232    E   022100
G  320003

| C         | D                | C        | D             | G
    I'm gonna take a little trip   down Paradise's endless  shores

            | %                 | %
They say that travel broadens the mind

                      | B7        | E
'Til you can't get your head out of doors


[play: 4/4| Em B7 | Em B7 |]


VERSE3:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
Em  022000    D    xx0232
B7  x2120x    Am7  x02010 or 575555
G   320003    C    x32010 or x35553
G/C x30003

| Em            B7    | Em         B7
    I'm sitting here on top of the world,

| G                    | G/C     D
    I hang around in the longest night

| Am7          B7      | C       B7
    Until each beast has gone to bed

| Am7          B7    | C         B7         | Em
    And then I say God Bless and turn out the light

        | G              | C        D
While you lie in the dark afraid to breathe

      | G                         | C               D
And you beg and you promise and you bargain and you plead

  | G                        | C     D
Sometimes, you confuse me with Santa Claus

| G        | C         D        | C
    It's the big white beard, I suppose

        | Em        B7           | Em           D
I'm going up to the pole where you folks die of cold

| G          | C          D          | C     | G B7 |
    I might be gone for a while if you need me



CHORUS3:
Chords:
Em  022000    G  320003 or 355433
B7  x2120x    C  x32010 or x35553
D   xx0232

      | Em            B7          | Em            D
Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead

         | G             | C           D
And you're all going on to meet your reward

      | Em              B7            | Em              D
Are you scared, are you scared, are you scared, are you scared

| G         | C          D              | C   |
    You might never have heard, but God's comic


[play: 4/4| Em B7 | Em B7 | Em B7 | C |]

[repeat to fade]