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 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...

Written by: Elvis Costello Personnel: Elvis Costello Steve Nieve - keyboards Bruce Thomas - bass Pete Thomas - drums Appears on: This Year's Model, 1977 This Year's Model, Ryko/Demon, 199x This Year's Model, Rhino, 200x Collections: 2½ Years, 1993 Soundtracks: none Various Artists collections: none 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 Bootlegs: Buddy Holly On Acid 1994

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

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