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Baby Plays Around

Elvis Costello

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From uunet!inmos!bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk!svrobins Mon Oct 19 18:50:42 PDT 1992 Article: 3035 of alt.guitar.tab Path: nevada.edu!uunet!inmos!bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk!svrobins From: svrobins@bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab Subject: CRD: Baby Plays Around (E.Costello) Message-ID: Date: 19 Oct 92 15:56:53 GMT Organization: Inmos Limited Lines: 51 Here's the chords/lyrics to "Baby Plays Around" from Elvis Costello's "Spike" album. Someone requested this a while back but it's taken me a while to get around to typing it in. It's in CHORD format, ie run it through the CHORD program that was recently posted and you get a nice postscript songsheet. Paul Robins email: svrobins@isnet.inmos.co.uk -------------------------- cut here ------------------------------- {t:Baby Plays Around} {t:words & music by D.P.A. Mac Manus & Cait O'Riordan} {define:A/G 1 0 2 2 2 - 3} {define:B/D# 0 2 4 4 1 - -} {define:Dm/F 0 1 3 2 0 - 1 } {define:Bm7-5 0 0 3 2 3 2 0} {define:D/F# 0 2 3 2 0 0 2} {define:A7/E 0 0 2 0 2 0 0} {define:C#m7-5 0 0 0 0 2 4 -} {define:D#^o 0 2 1 2 1 - -} {define:F^o 0 1 2 2 3 - -} {define:B7/D# 0 2 0 2 1 - -} {define:F6 0 1 3 2 3 1 1} {define:E11 0 2 0 1 0 0 0} {define:C#m7 4 1 2 1 3 1 - } [A]It's not [A7]open [D] to discussion any[Dsus]more, [A]She's out[B/D#] again tonight, [E] And I'm a[C#m7]lone once more, [D]She's all I [Bm7]have [Bm7-5]worth [C#m7] waiting [F#m]for, but [B/D#]baby plays a[Bm7]round. [E] [A]And so it [A/G]seems I've always [D/F#]been the last to [Dm/F]know, [A]To hold [B/D#]on to that girl, [E] I had to [C#m7]let her go. [D/F#] I wish to [Dm/F] God I [C#m7]didn't love her [F#m]so, [B/D#] 'Cause [E11]baby plays a[a]round. [A/G]I try to be [D/F#]strong, [A7/E] hold on to my [D]pride.[C#m7-5] [Em7] She doesn't [A7]even know it's [D]wrong, how much I [D#^o]hurt inside.[F^o] And heaven knows I've tried but [F#m] ba[Bm7]by plays a[Dm]round, just a [Esus]play thing.[F^o] Its hard to reconcile the facts I'm [E7]facing. [A]It's not [A7]open [D] to discussion any[Dsus]more, [A]She walk's[B/D#] those shiny streets, [E] I walk the [C#m7]worn out floor. [D]She's all I [Bm7]have [Bm7-5]worth [C#m7] living [F#m]for, [B/D#]Baby [F6]plays, baby [D]plays a[Fmaj7]round [F7] [Em7] [B7/D#] [Em] [Dm7] [a] [F] [A7]
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