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from: Christian Korbanka, Cologne, Germany
e-mail: [email protected]
lyrics and chords of: You Tripped At Every Step by Elvis Costello And The Attractions

Suggestions and corrections are always welcome!
date: 95/10/15


G                   Em/B     C          G/D
Take your tiny feet out of your mother´s shoes
   Bm              Em            Am7         D7
Or there´s is going to be a terrible scene
G                   Em/B     C             G/D
It´s not just a lipstick drawn on crooked when they
Bm            Em
Find how wicked we are
B                Bdim          C
How wicked we have been
E                       Am
How I´ve been tempted

C                           G/D D  C
How you tripped at every step
                         Em                    C            Em
You tripped at every step, you tripped at every step
      C                            Bm D/A   C
Oh, how you tripped at every step

G                      Em/B           C      G/D
There´s a merry tune that starts in "I" and ends
  Bm              Em               Am7          D7
In "You", like many famous pop songs do
G                      Em/B     C         G/D
You would sing along with little tell-tale staggers
Bm         Em
While balancing on daggers
B                      Bdim   C
Thou they were killing you
E                       Am
You looked so deadly

C                         G/D D  C
As you tripped at every step
                        Em                     C            Em
You tripped at every step, you tripped at every step
      C                            Bm D/A   C
Oh, how you tripped at every step


      Eb                   Cm7         Ab6           G7
And I would try to catch you anytime you call
         Cm7                                                    Bb7
Only you drank that potion and went out of control
               Eb          Cm7                 Ab6       G7
There´s nothing to stop you so how can you fall
 C                        Am
Let me take your hand
Bb/F                         D/F#
Put down that frying pan

G                        Em/B        C             G/D
Darkness would become me, underneath the table
Bm      Em             Am7          D7
As the fury raged around the house
G                      Em/B       C       G/D
Your despairing tread was angry and unstable
Bm   Em
You never suspected
   B               Bdim      C
Just as this cartoon mouse
E            Am
Went undetected

C                         G/D D  C
As you tripped at every step
                        Em                     C          Em
You tripped at every step, you tripped at every step
      C                            Bm D/A   C
Oh, how you tripped at every step

G              Em/B     C             G/D
In another world of gin and cigarettes
       Bm               Em        Am7              D7
Those cocktail cabinets put mud in your eye
G                  Em/B    C         G/D
Maybe that is why you find it hard to see me
Bm           Em
And if you don´t believe me
B               Bdim     C
Before you start to cry
E                Am
"Don´t eve leave me."

C                         G/D D  C
As you tripped at every step
                        Em                     C          Em
You tripped at every step, you tripped at every step
      C                            Bm D/A   C
Oh, how you tripped at every step



Original tune is in D-Major!
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