TAB:Pills & Soap - Elvis Costello
Mrs Krose
Pills And Soap
Words and music by Elvis Costello
From the album: Punch the Clock
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Bb/C XX3332
Cm
They talked to the sister, the father and the mother
With a microphone in one hand and a chequebook in the other
and the camera noses in to the tears on her face
The tears on her face
The tears on her face
You can put them back together with your paper and paste
Cm Gm
But you can't put them back together
Cm Gm
You can't put them back together
Fm Gm
What would you say?
Bm Bb/C
What would you do?
Fm Gm Bm Bb/C
Children and animals two by two
Fm Gm
Give me the needle
Bm Bb/C
Give me the rope
Fm Gm Bm Bb/C
We're going to melt them down for pills and soap
Bbm Fm
Give me the needle
Gm Bm Bb
Give me the rope
Eb Db C Ab G
We're going to melt them down for pills and soap
(same chords as above)
Four and twenty crowbars, jemmy your desire
Out of the frying pan into the fire
The king is in the counting house
Some folk have all the luck
And all we get are pictures of LORD AND LADY MUCK
They come from lovely people with a hard line in hypocrisy
THERE ARE ASHTRAYS OF EMOTION FOR THE FAG ENDS OF THE ARISTOCRACY
The sugar coated pill is getting bitterer still
YOU THINK YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU BUT YOU KNOW IT NEVER WILL
So pack up your troubles in a stolen handbag
DON'T DILLY DALLY BOYS RALLY ROUND THE FLAG
Give us your daily bread in individual slices
And something in the daily rag to cancel any crisis
Jonathan Waterbury
In article <19970603211...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
mrsk...@aol.com (Mrs Krose) wrote:
> Pills And Soap
> Words and music by Elvis Costello
> From the album: Punch the Clock
*snipped for a quick question*
> Four and twenty crowbars, jemmy your desire
"jemmy your desire?" Are you sure? What does that mean? I always thought
he was saying "jamming your desire."
--
IMHO as usual and as always,
Cheers,
Jonathan
hint: remove n#2 through m.
Jeremy Epstein
In article <jonaw-06069...@208.142.81.31>,
jonaw@not-a-speck-o'spam.nr.infi.net (Jonathan Waterbury) wrote:
>
> In article <19970603211...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
> mrsk...@aol.com (Mrs Krose) wrote:
>
> > Pills And Soap
> > Words and music by Elvis Costello
> > From the album: Punch the Clock
>
> *snipped for a quick question*
>
> > Four and twenty crowbars, jemmy your desire
>
> "jemmy your desire?" Are you sure? What does that mean? I always thought
A "jemmy" is British for a "jimmy" - a burglar's tool pretty much the
same as a crowbar. I think he's got it. -j
> he was saying "jamming your desire."
>
> --
> IMHO as usual and as always,
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
> hint: remove n#2 through m.
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Slo
Jonathan Waterbury wrote:
> > From "Pills And Soap":
> > Four and twenty crowbars, jemmy your desire
>
> "jemmy your desire?" Are you sure? What does that mean? I always thought
>
I think those are the official lyrics. I always figured "jemmy" was a
quaint British way of spelling jimmy. Sort of like "Auld" for old.
You're the Englishman, however, so you should know better than me
(or I). We Americans are lucky in that we're supposed to have bad
grammar.
At any rate, it's either a misspelling of jimmy or a legitimate
alternate spelling of the same. I think jimmy is the correct
word though here it means something entirely different than if,
say, Ice Cube were to use it.
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
> hint: remove n#2 through m.I got it this time
Slo
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michael p mccullough
On Fri, 06 Jun 1997 15:17:19 -0700, Slo <slo_l...@dynatem.com>
wrote:
>
>I think those are the official lyrics. I always figured "jemmy" was a
>quaint British way of spelling jimmy. Sort of like "Auld" for old.
those are the "official lyrics." however, i wouldn't be 100% certain
about them. (but close to 100%) the lyrics from the songbook (first
five records) and the lyrics from mark's site are almost identical,
and these are from mark's site.
m.
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John Loughlin
Jemmy (or British jimmy) as a noun, is a short crow-bar, and as a verb it
means to force open
Websters web dictionary says:
jimmy
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): jim·mied; jim·my·ing
Date: 1893
: to force open with or as if with a jimmy <the burglar jimmied a window>
Slo <slo_l...@dynatem.com> wrote in article
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Andrew C Taubman
Damn, I missed the TAB for Pills and Soap, if someone put it up (I was
the one who asked for it). Could someone mail it to me please? Actual
address is atau...@novell.com . Thanks!