Hand In Hand

Lyrics - Credits - Discography - Covers - Bootlegs - Chords

Lyrics No, don't ask me to apologise. I won't ask you to forgive me. If I'm gonna go down, you're gonna come with me You say 'Why don't you be a man about it, like they do in the grown-up movies?' But when it comes to the other way around, you say you just wanna use me. Oh, you sit and you wonder whether it's gonna be syndicated. You sit with your knees together. All the time your breath is baited. Hand in Hand. No, don't ask me to apologise. I won't ask you to forgive me. If I'm gonna go down, you're gonna come with me Don't you know I got the bully boys out changing someone's facial design, sitting with my toy room lout, polishing my precious china Don't you know I'm an animal? But don't you know I can't stand up steady? But you can't show me any kind of hell that I don't know already. Hand in Hand. No, don't ask me to apologise. I won't ask you to forgive me. If I'm gonna go down, you're gonna come with me Hand in hand, hand in hand, hand in hand...

Credits Written by: Elvis Costello Produced by: Nick Lowe Musicians: Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar Steve Nieve - keyboards Bruce Thomas - bass Pete Thomas - drums Discography Albums: This Year's Model, 1978 This Year's Model (reissue), Rykodisc/Demon, 1993 This Year's Model (Deluxe Edition), Rhino, 2002 This section may be incomplete. Singles: This section may be incomplete. Collections: 2½ Years, 1993 This section may be incomplete. Alternate Versions: This section may be incomplete. Soundtracks: none Various Artists collections: none Covers Recorded by: Mathilde Santing, on Hand In Hand (7" vinyl single) 1983 Palomar Sky Survey, on Are We Heading South? (7") 2000 Scared Of Chaka, on Scared Of Chaka 1996 Performed by: none This section may be incomplete. Bootlegs This section is incomplete.

Chords

from: mats@omega.physchem.kth.se (Mats Jansson tel: 790 71 93)

D                              A
  No don't ask me to apologise.
D                               A
  I won't ask you to forgive me.
D                  Bm
  If I'm gonna go down,
A               E    A
  you're gonna come with me. 

F#m
    You say, "Why don't you be a man about it,
Bm
   like they do in the grown-up movies?"
F#m
   But when it comes to the other way around,
     A            E    A
you say you just wanna use me.
    G
Oh,   you sit and you wonder whether
Bm
   it's gonna be syndicated.
G
  You sit with your knees together.
A               E     A           G
  All the time your breath is baited.


D    A   D
Hand in hand.


No don't ask me to apologise.
I won't ask you to forgive me.
If I'm gonna go down,
you're gonna come with me.

Don't you know I got the bully boys out
changing someone's facial design,
sitting with my toy room lout,
polishing my precious china.
Don't you know I'm an animal?
But don't you know I can't stand up steady?
But you can't show me any kind of hell
that I don't know already.

 D   A   D
Hand in hand.

D                              A
  No don't ask me to apologise.
D                               A
  I won't ask you to forgive me.
D                  Bm
  If I'm gonna go down,
A               E    A               G
  you're gonna come with me hand in hand,
G/D  A   G    G/D  A   G
hand in hand, hand in hand.
 D   A   D     D   A   D     D   A   D
Hand in hand, hand in hand, hand in hand

Translation

• Hand In Hand (français)

Internal links

• Elvis Costello Home Page: This Year's Model | lyrics | chords | TYM info page | Rykodisc/Demon TYM reissue info page
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External links

• Elvis Costello on Rhino This Year's Model reissue page