New Amsterdam

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New Amsterdam
Elvis Costello


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You're sending me tulips, 
      G
mistaken for lilies,
    G            Em        F     
You give me your lip after 
      D
punching me silly,
G             Em           C    
You turned my head till it 
           G
rolled down the brain drain,
     G       Em           F      
If I had any sense now, I 
          D
wouldn't want it back again.


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New Amsterdam, it's become much 
    G
too much,
       G            Bb      
Will I have the possession of 
  Am             G
everything she touches,
       G           Bb           
Till I step on the brake to get 
Am         G
out of her clutches?
      G            Bb        Am  
Can I speak Double Dutch to a 
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real double duchess?


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G           Em          C       
Down on the mainspring, listen 
      G
to the tick tock,
G             Em         F      
Clock all the faces that move in
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 on your block,
G             Em          C     
Twice shy and dog tired because 
            G
you've been bitten,
G              Em      F        
Everything you say now sounds 
          D
like it was ghost written.


G         Bb          Am        
New Amsterdam, it's become much 
    G
too much,
       G            Bb      
Will I have the possession of 
  Am             G
everything she touches,
       G           Bb           
Till I step on the brake to get 
Am         G
out of her clutches?
      G            Bb         Am 
Can I speak Double Dutch to a 
         G
real double duchess?


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Like, in London, they'll take you 
   A             E
to heart after a little while,
         E             E          
Though I look right at home, I 
   C            D       C  G  D
still feel like an exile.


G         Em           C         
Somehow I found myself down at the 
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dockside,
G                  Em       
Thinking about the old days of 
   F             D
Liverpool and Rotherhithe,
G           Em         C         
Transparent people who live on the 
  G
other side,
G        Em           F          
Living a life that is almost like 
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suicide,


G         Bb          Am        
New Amsterdam, it's become much 
    G
too much,
       G            Bb      
Will I have the possession of 
  Am             G
everything she touches,
       G           Bb           
Till I step on the brake to get 
Am         G
out of her clutches?
      G            Bb         Am 
Can I speak Double Dutch to a 
         G
real double duchess?