Green Shirt

Lyrics - Credits - Discography - Covers - Bootlegs - Chords

Lyrics There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen Who comes into my house every night And she takes all the red, yellow, orange and green And she turns them into black and white But you tease, and you flirt And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it Better cut off all identifying labels Before they put you on the torture table 'Cause somewhere in the "Quisling Clinic" There's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes She's listening in to the Venus line She's picking out names I hope none of them are mine But you tease, and you flirt And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it Never said I was a stool pigeon I never said I was a diplomat Everybody is under suspicion But you don't wanna hear about that 'Cause you tease, and you flirt And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it Better send a begging letter to the big investigation Who put these fingerprints on my imagination? You tease, and you flirt And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it You can please yourself but somebody's gonna get it Additional Lyrics Additional Verse from Greenshirt (demo): There are wires in the windows, there are wires in the walls There are wires in the kitchen and wires in the hall There are wires on poles, there are wires in your face There are wires in the holes coming out all over the place

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: Armed Forces, 1979 Armed Forces (reissue), Rykodisc/Demon, 1993 Armed Forces (Deluxe Edition), Rhino, 2002 Singles: Green Shirt, 1985 Collections: 2½ Years, 1993 This section may be incomplete. Alternate Versions: Green Shirt (Extended Remix) Green Shirt, 1985 (12" single) Greenshirt (demo) This Year's Model (reissue), Rykodisc/Demon, 1993 This Year's Model (Deluxe Edition), Rhino, 2002 This section may be incomplete. Soundtracks: none Various Artists collections: none Covers Recorded by: none This section may be incomplete. Performed by: none This section may be incomplete. Bootlegs This section is incomplete.

Chords

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Internal links

• Elvis Costello Home Page: Armed Forces | lyrics | chords | AF info page | Rykodisc/Demon AF reissue info page
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• Template:Greenshirt verse

External links

• Elvis Costello on Rhino Armed Forces reissue page