Lirik dan Chord Lagu Coal Train Robberies - Elvis Costello

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “Coal Train Robberies” merupakan sebuah lagu yang dibawakan oleh penyanyi asal Inggris, Elvis Costello.

Lagu tersebut dimuat dalam album studio ke-12 miliknya yang bertajuk Spike.

Album yang dirilis pada tahun 1989 melalui Warner Bros Records itu berhasil menduduki posisi kelima di UK Albums Chart.

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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Coal Train Robberies” dari Elvis Costello.

[Verse 1]
                   Am                         G
Yesterday's coal train came to rest in the bitter
F
Cutting
                  C           G           F         G         E
And as the signals took an age to change it was
E7
Easy pickings
F
So you go to the movies where they smash it up
G
You want to feel your heart pumping it makes

You feel good
C                                                    G
All through the karaoke girls were squealing

The hits
C                                 G                             E   E7
As another Mercedes-Benz gets blown to bits
                     Am                                G
While all the time in the camp town theaters
      F
Of Piccadilly
                           C            G                F
They're going to throw a black-face minstrel
G                    E
Show for the barefoot children
                      E7
That they're always selling
       F
They'll say "It's quaint" as the guilty ones faint
        G
And claim they ain't underneath this paint
          C                    G
We interrupt these liberal saints with their
F                 E
Whips and watermelon

[Chorus]
Am                               F      Dm            G
Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery
Am        F                      Dm          G
It's like another world, or it had better be

            Am                               G
So we return to whitewashed pout of his
                    F
Committed lips
                      C                   G             F
Since he was declared the long lost fountain
     G                 E                             E7
Of youth that drips and drips and drips
                 F
They'll be sending him round from door to door
      G
To sell you back what's already yours
C                                      G
"So many good deeds, so little time"
             C                             G     E E7
Say the advertising agency swine
           F
When man has destroyed what he thinks he owns
   G
I hope no living thing cries over his bones
          C                                  G
If you don't believe that I'm going for good
              C                                             G
You can count the days I'm gone and chop up
                       E          E7
The chairs for firewood

[Chorus]
Am                              F       Dm            G
Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery
Am        F                      Dm          G
It's like another world, or it had better be