Battered Old Bird Akkorde von
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello

N/A
Tonart: D major
Verse 1
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D

The landlady, his husband,
came up to town today
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G

Since he left them both ten years ago
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D

to serve the ministry
The dark down road of his approach
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Am

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D

and constant rain was drenched
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G

The tenant's boy said, do you do?
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A

D
D

Then swore in French
Did you teach this little child
these curses on my soul?
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G

We should both be shut
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D

down in the cold
That's the way to treat a child
who cries out in the night
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G

And a woman who teaches
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A

D
D

wrong from right
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G

Oh, he's a bad old bird
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D

And he's the living of an evil world
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G

He's a bad old bird
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D

There needs to live another day,
whoa
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A

D
D

There's a place where time stands still
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A

D
D

If you keep taking these little pink pills,
whoa
Hush your mouth, you hypocrite
It's humor, cut her deep
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G

The tight -lipped leer of judgment
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D

That had seen her love deserted
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A

D
D

just like sleep filthy words on children's lips
are better my dear spouse
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G

than if I were to speak my
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A

D
D

mind about this house
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G

oh, he's a bad little bird
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D

and he's livin' up a little low
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G

he's a bad little bird
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D

and he's livin' up a little low
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A

D
D

There's a place where time stands still
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A

D
D

You keep takin' these little pink pills
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C

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G

Am
Am

Well, on the first floor
there were two old maids
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G

And each one wishin' that
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C

the other was afraid
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Am

And next door to them
was a man so mild
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G

Till he dropped out the head
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C

of a visitor's child
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F

He danced upon the bonfire
Swallowed sleeping pills like dreams
With a bottle of sweet sherry that
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C

G
G

Everything re deems
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C

F
F

Woah -oh, he's a battered old bird
C
C

And he's living up there
Woah -oh -oh -oh -oh
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F

He's a battered old bird
C
C

And he's living up there
Woah -oh -oh -oh -oh
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G

There's a place where time stands still
C
C

You keep takin' these little big pills,
whoa -whoa -whoa
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Am

And on the second floor
is the Macintosh man
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G

He's in his overcoats,
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C

marrin' out of them
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Am

And then the typewriter's
rattlin' all through the night
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G

C
C

He's beggin' you for breakfast time
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F

He says, one day I'll throw
away all of my cares
And it is always Christmas
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C

G
G

C
C

in a cupboard at the top of the stairs
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F

Woah, he's a bad little bird
C
C

And he's a -living up there,
woah, woah
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F

He's a bad little bird
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C

And he's a -living up there, woah, woah
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G

And there's a place where
time stands still
He'll keep takin' these
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C

little pig pills
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D

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Well, here's a boy, developed a wise
Who's gonna do big things
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G

I guess that's what they all say
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D

And that's how the trouble begins
I've seen them rise and fall
through their big deals and smalls
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G

And he better have a dream
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A

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D

that goes beyond four walls
Bm
Bm

You think he should be sent outside
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A

D
D

playing with the traffic
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G

Asus4
Asus4

When pieces of him are already
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A

scattered in the attic
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F

Pieces of him are already
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G

scattered in the at tic
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F

He's a bad old bird,
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C

and he's a -living out there
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F

He's a bad old bird,
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C

and he's a -living out there
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G

There's a place where time stands still
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C

If you keep taking these little big pills
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C

Oh, oh
Outro 1
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