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from: Christian Korbanka, Cologne, Germany

e-mail: Christian_Korbanka@msn.com

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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