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|lyrics = {{Watch Your Step}} | |||
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= | |title = Watch Your Step | ||
|writer = [[Elvis Costello]] | |||
|performer = [[Elvis Costello]] & [[The Attractions]] | |||
|producer = [[Nick Lowe]] in association with [[Roger Bechirian]] | |||
|musicians = [[Elvis Costello]] - vocals, guitar<br>[[Steve Nieve]] - keyboards<br>[[Bruce Thomas]] - bass<br>[[Pete Thomas]] - drums | |||
|record_info = 1980, DJM Studios and/or Eden Studios, London | |||
|release_info = January 1981 | |||
|albums = [[Trust]], 1981 | |||
|singles = [[Single: Watch Your Step|Watch Your Step]], 1981 | |||
|collections = [[The Best Of Elvis Costello & The Attractions]], 1985<br>[[Girls Girls Girls]], 1989<br>[[The Very Best Of Elvis Costello & The Attractions]], 1994 | |||
|soundtracks = | |||
|various_artists = | |||
|promos = [[The Elvis Costello Interview with Tom Snyder: Tomorrow Coast To Coast]], 1981<br>[[Promo: Visa Sampler|Visa Sampler]], 2007 | |||
|videos = | |||
|length = 2:57 | |||
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|first = [[Concert 1980-03-20 Sunderland|March 20, 1980, Sunderland, England]] | |||
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==Alternate versions== | |||
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|title = Watch Your Step (Alternate Version) (1979) | |||
|performer = [[Elvis Costello]] | |||
|producer = [[Elvis Costello]] | |||
|musicians = [[Elvis Costello]] - vocals, all instruments(?) | |||
|record_info = November 1979, U.K. Pro Studio, London | |||
|release_info = July 28, 2003 | |||
|length = 2:01 | |||
|albums = [[Get Happy!! (Rhino/Edsel reissue)]], 2003 | |||
}}<br> | |||
{{song credits | |||
|title = Watch Your Step (Alternate Version) (1980) | |||
|performer = [[Elvis Costello]] & [[The Attractions]] | |||
|producer = [[Nick Lowe]] in association with [[Roger Bechirian]] | |||
|musicians = [[Elvis Costello]] - vocal, guitar<br>[[Steve Nieve]] - keyboards<br>[[Bruce Thomas]] - bass<br>[[Pete Thomas]] - drums | |||
|record_info = July 1980, DJM Studios, London | |||
|release_info = July 28, 2003 | |||
|albums = [[Trust (Rhino/Edsel reissue)]], 2003 | |||
|length = 2:44 | |||
}}<br> | |||
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|title = Watch Your Step (Live 1983) | |||
|performer = [[Elvis Costello]] & [[The Attractions]] (with [[The TKO Horns]]) | |||
|musicians = [[Elvis Costello]] - vocal, guitar<br>[[Steve Nieve]] - keyboards<br>[[Bruce Thomas]] - bass<br>[[Pete Thomas]] - drums<br>[[Jim Paterson]] - trombone<br>[[Jeff Blythe]] - saxophone<br>[[Paul Speare]] - saxophone<br>[[Dave Plews]] - trumpet | |||
|record_info = [[Concert 1983-09-07|September 7, 1983, Austin, TX]] | |||
|release_info = July 28, 2003 | |||
|length = 3:22 | |||
|albums = [[Punch The Clock (Rhino/Edsel reissue)]], 2003 | |||
}} | |||
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{{thumb: Trust}} | |||
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{{thumb: Single: Watch Your Step}} | |||
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{{thumb: The Best Of Elvis Costello & The Attractions}} | |||
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{{thumb: Girls Girls Girls}} | |||
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{{thumb: The Very Best Of Elvis Costello & The Attractions}} | |||
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{{thumb: Get Happy!!}} | |||
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{{thumb: Punch The Clock}} | |||
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{{thumb: Visa Sampler}} | |||
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|covers = {{Elvis Costello covers: Watch Your Step}} | |||
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==Chords== | ==Chords== | ||
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Ooh, watch your step</pre></code> | Ooh, watch your step</pre></code> | ||
==Internal | ==Internal links== | ||
*[http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/trust/trust.htm Elvis Costello Home Page: Trust] | *[http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/trust/trust.htm Elvis Costello Home Page: Trust] {{-}} [http://www.elviscostello.info/lyrics/trust.html lyrics] {{-}} [http://www.elviscostello.info/guitar/trust.html chords] | ||
*[[Template: Watch Your Step|Lyrics]] {{-}} [[Template: Elvis Costello covers: Watch Your Step|Covers]] | |||
*[[Template:Watch Your Step]] | |||
==External links== | |||
*[http://www.geocities.com/ned3705/trust.html Elvis Costello Reissues: Trust] | |||
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Revision as of 07:03, 28 April 2009
Don't say a word |
First known performance: Alternate versions
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Covers
Template:Elvis Costello covers: Watch Your Step
Chords
Watch Your Step
Tabbed by: michael@magick.net (michael p mccullough)
From http://www.elviscostello.info/guitar/trust.html#watch_your_step
INTRO:
C F Em C F G (repeat)
C F Em C F Cm
1.)Don't say a word, don't say anything
2.)Ev'ry day is full of fun, and
3.)Ev'ry night go out full of
C F Em C F G
1.)Don't say a word, I'm not even listening
2.) family spies, they're making heroes
3.)carnival desires end up in the
C Dm Em
1.)I read in the papers about their escape
2.)out of fall guys they say it's good
3.)closing time choirs when you're
F C Em F C F Em C
1.)They're just two bit of kids from a bunch of so-ur grapes
2.)for business from Singapore to Widnes
F C Dm Em F
3.)kicking in the car chrome And you're drinking down the Eau de Cologne
C Dm Em F C F Em C
3.{cont.})And you're spitting out the Kodachrome
C F G C F Em C F G
1,2,3.)You better watch your step
C Bm Am F
Watch who's knocking on your front door
C Bm
Now you know that they're watching
Am F
What are you waiting for?
C Bm
Think you're young and original
Am F C F Em
Get out before...
C F G C F Em C F G
They get to watch your step
C Bm Am F
Broken noses hung up on the wall
C Bm Am F
Back slapping drinkers cheer the heavy weight brawl
C Bm Am F C F Em
So punch drunk they don't understand at all
C F G
You better watch your step
INSTRUMENTAL
Am F Em C G F Em Dm G C Bb F
C Bm
Bye
Am F
I send you all my regards
C Bm
You're so tough
Am F
You're so hard
C Bm Am F G C
Listen to the hammers falling in the breaker's yard
C F G C
You better watch your step
You better watch your step
Ooh, watch your step