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Song title:      Radio Radio
Original Album:	 This Year's Model

Words and Music by Elvis Costello
Copyright © 1978 Radar Records (UK)
Published by Warner Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Notes:
keyboard is transcribed to acoustic guitar.

Chords:
E   022100 or x79997
B7  x2120x or 797877
B5  x244xx or 799xxx

[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]

Guitar Figure 1

Acoustic guitar:
  E               B7      E             B5
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-----4---4---4---4---4---4---4---|
|---------9-------7-------6-------|-----4---4---4---4---4---4---4---|
|-7-------------------------------|-----2---2---2---2---2---2---2---|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |


VERSE1:
Chords:
E    022100    A/C# x4222x
B    x24442    B/D# x6444x
A    x02220    A/E  002220
C#m  x46654    B/F# 224442

    | E                        | B
I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial
    | A                 | E
Doing anything my radio advised.

   | %                | B
With every one of those late night stations
      | A                         | C#m
Playing songs, bringing tears to my eyes.

    | A                      | B
I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver
       | A/C#                   | B/D#
When the switch broke 'cause it's old.

| A/E                            | B/F#
  They're saying things that I can hardly believe.
          | B                           | E
They really think we're getting out of control.


CHORUS:
Chords:
E    022100    B  x24442
C#m  x46654    A  x02220

| E          | C#m
  Radio is the sound salvation.

       | B
Radio is cleaning up the nation.

   | A            | E           | B      | E
They say you better listen to the voice of reason.

             | A          | E                | B             | C#m
But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason.

         | B                        | C#m
So you had better do as you are told.

         | B               | E
You better listen to the radio.


[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]


BRIDGE:
Chords:
Am  x02210    C#m  x46654
E   022100    B    x24442

| Am                 | E
    I want to bite the hand that feeds me.
| Am                  | E
    I want to bite that hand so badly.
| C#m                                   | B7
    I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.


VERSE2:
Chords:
E    022100    A/C# x4222x
B    x24442    B/D# x6444x
A    x02220    A/E  002220
C#m  x46654    B/F# 224442

| E                     | B
  Some of my friends sit around every evening
       | A                    | E
And they worry about the times ahead.

  | %                    | B
But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference
      | A                 | C#m
And the promise of an early bed.

         | B                               | A/C#
You better shut up or get cut up; they don't wanna hear about it.
        | B/D#                | A/E
It's only inches on the reel-to-reel.

      | %                      | B/F#
And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools
         | B                          | E
Trying to anaesthetise the way that you feel.


[repeat CHORUS]


OUTRO:
Chords:
E   022100 or x79997
B7  x2120x or 797877
B5  x244xx or 799xxx

[repeat Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]

         [Guitar Figure 1]
        | E    B7 E | B5
Wonderful radio
        | E    B7 E | B5
Marvelous radio
        | E    B7 E | B5
Wonderful radio


[play:]  [x4]

      [Guitar Figure 1]
     | E    B7 E | B5
Radio, radio
     | E    B7 E | B5
Radio, radio


[then end on this:]

  E                       B         E                       B
|-0____________-----------2-------|-0____________-----------2-------|
|-0____________-----------4-------|-0____________-----------4-------|
|-1____________-----------4-------|-1____________-----------4-------|
|-2____________-----------4-------|-2____________-----------4-------|
|-2____________-----------2-------|-2____________-----------2-------|
|-0____________-------------------|-0____________-------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |


  E                       B7        E
|-0____________-------------------|-0____________-------------------|
|-0____________-----------0-------|-0____________-------------------|
|-1____________-----------2-------|-1____________-------------------|
|-2____________-----------1-------|-2____________-------------------|
|-2____________-----------2-------|-2____________-------------------|
|-0____________-------------------|-0____________-------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |