A Slow Drag With Josephine chords by Elvis Costello

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Introduction:
C

Verse 1:

 C
The snitch, the snoop, the tattletale
         F               C
Lead a threadbare up stairs

Adieu, my little ballyhoo
 Dm            G        C
You broke my heart in two
                               F                  C
And now I haunt the bars and scent those trite affairs
 Am        G      Am         G
She went home to gather her comb
      Am           C
And caught him unawares

Pre-Chorus:

 Dm                                 B   C   C#  D
And there was her man enjoying the lay of the land
 Dm                                      A   F#   G
He took a walk in the dark with a dish from the stand
 C                  F
Girls and their creations
 G        F     G         C
Tight in the brightest grenadine
 C        F       G            C
But I'd take all that I've seen
    Dm                  C
For a Slow Drag with Josephine


Chorus:
 G         C C/B Am7 G
Josephine, Josephine
 C        F       G          C
But I'd trade all that I've seen
    Dm                  C
For a Slow Drag with Josephine


Verse 2:
 Am                  F             Dm       G
Gavotte, garrotes, Cotillions and slow Arabesques
 Am                  F             Dm       G
Drum-rolls and Farandoles were all made in jest
Am                     F
But when you make that move
Am          F
I can't resist
 Cm                        G
When will you declare your armistice?


Chorus:

 G         C C/B Am7 G
Josephine, Josephine
 C        F       G          C
But I'd trade all that I've seen
    Dm                  C
For a Slow Drag with Josephine

Verse 3:

C                             F                  C
In another time and place a different fate was cast
C
He tried to skeddle-daddle-do
Dm                 G
She might have slapped him
                   C              F                C
Just for saying "Grant one more chance before you pass"
       Am        G           Am          G         Am         C
"Then curse the nurse that named me the first or bury me at last"
 Dm
And in three-quarter time
     B     C  C#   D
The true and the false
  Dm                  A F# G
Dancing the "Hesitation Waltz"
 C                   F
Then comes the "Flirtation"
 G      F
And temptation
     G     C
Hip, hip hooray
 C   F     G      C
Listen to what I say
  Dm                  C
Then you can take it away...