All This Useless Beauty Akkorde von 
Elvis Costello 
Key: D major•
Verse 1
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A
D
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A
D
It's at times such as this,
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she'd be tempted to spit
Bm
D
If she wasn't so lady_ like
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She ima_ gines how she
D
might have lived
Em
Back when legends and history
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G
A
collide
Verse 2
D
So she looks to her prince,
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finding he's so charmingly
Bm
D
Slumped at her side
G
Those days are recalled on
D
the gal_ lery wall
Bm
And she's waiting for pas_
D
E
sion or humor to strike
Verse 3
A
What shall we do,
G
Em
what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
G
A
D
All this useless beau_ ty
Verse 4
D
Good Friday arrived,
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the sky darkened on time
D
Bm
D
Till he almost began to negotiate
G
D
She held his head like a baby and said
Em
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G
A
"it's okay if you cry"
D
Now he wants her to dress as if
F#m
D
you couldn't guess
Bm
D
He de_ sires to impress his as_ sociates
G
But he's part ugly beast and
D
Hel_ lenic deceased
Bm
So she finds that the mixture
D
E
is hard to deny
Verse 5
A
What shall we do,
G
what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
Bm
G
A
D
All this useless beau_ ty
Verse 6
C
She won't practice the looks from
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G
the great tragic book_ s
D
That were later dis_ graced
Em
to face celluloid
C
It won't even make sense,
D
G
but you can bet
C
If she isn't a sweetheart
D
G
or plaything or pet
C
Em
Bm
The film turns her into an
D
A
unveiled threat
Verse 7
D
F#m
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails
D
Bm
D
Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
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D
While the calendar fades almost all
Em
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G
A
barricades to a pale com_ promise
D
And our leaders have feasts on the
F#m
D
back_ sides of beasts
Bm
They still think they're
D
the gods of an_ tiquity
G
If something you missed
D
didn't even exist
Bm
It was just an ideal,
D
E
is it such a surprise?
Verse 8
A
What shall we do,
G
Em
what shall we do with all this useless beau_ ty?
G
A
D
All this useless beauty
Verse 9
D
A
What shall we do,
G
Em
what shall we do with all this useless beau_ ty?
D
G
A
All this useless beauty
Outro 1
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