Everyday I Write The Book Acoustic chords by Elvis Costello

From 1983 'Punch the Clock' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_the_Clock
Key C#m
*Capo on the 4th fret*
The song is in an A/B/C format, making it a little tricky


Intro:
Am / Em / Fmaj7 / G (I like Gm better)
Am / Em / Fmaj7 / G

Verse (Form A):
   C              Em
Don't tell me you don't know what love is
      Am         Em
When you're old enough to know better
     Am             Dm
When you find strange hands in your sweater
     Em
When your dreamboat
   A
Turns out to be a footnote
   Dm
I'm a man with a mission
  Em      G
In two or three editions, and

Chorus (Form B)

C   Em     F    G
 I'm giving you a longing look
   C     Em    F
Everyday, everyday, everyday,
   G       C
Everyday I write the book

Em / F / G

Verse (Form C):

      Am
Chaaa-pter one, we didn't really get along
    C       Em        C
Chapter two, I think I fell in love with you
  Am
You said you'd, stand by me in the middle of Chapter three
       Dm
But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters
Em       G
Four, five, and six, and

Repeat Chorus (Form B)

C   Em     F    G
 I'm giving you a longing look
   C     Em    F
Everyday, everyday, everyday,
   G       C
Everyday I write the book

Em / F / G


Verse (Form C):
     Am
The wa-ay you walk
                    C
The way you talk and try to kiss me and laugh
      Em    C
In four or five paragraphs.
     Am
All your compliments and your cutting remarks
  Dm         Em    G
are captured here in my quotation marks, and

Repeat Chorus

C   Em     F    G
 I'm giving you a longing look
   C     Em    F
Everyday, everyday, everyday,
   G       Am (return to intro)
Everyday I write the book

Am Em   F         G
Oo oooooo Everyday I write the book

Verse (Form A):
   C             Em
Don't tell me you don't know the difference
  Am         Em
Between a lover and a fighter
    Am           Dm
With my pen and my electric typewriter
   Em
Even in a perfect world
   A
Where everyone was equal
  Dm
I'd still own the film rights
    Em       G
And be working on the sequel, and

Repeat Chorus (Form B) x 3
C   Em     F    G
 I'm giving you a longing look
   C     Em    F
Everyday, everyday, everyday,
   G       C
Everyday I write the book
Em    F
Everyday, everyday,
   G       C
Everyday I write the book
Em    F
Everyday, everyday,
   G       Am
Everyday I write the book (back into following intro but miss the G)

Oooo oooo oooooo
Am / Em / F