{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":63940,"song":"This Is Hell","artist":"Elvis Costello & The Attractions","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11542723-this-is-hell-chords-by-elvis-costello-the-attractions/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/63940?type=chord","rating":4.90664,"votes":21,"content":"[tab]from: Christian Korbanka, Cologne, Germany\r\ne-mail: Christian_Korbanka@msn.com\r\nlyrics and chords of: This Is Hell by Elvis Costello And The Attractions[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThis is hell, this is hell, I am ...sorry to tell you,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] ([ch]G[/ch]) ([ch]G/F#[/ch]) ([ch]G/E[/ch])\r\nIt ...never gets better, or worse,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em7[/ch]\r\n But you'll get used to it, after a spell,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch]\r\nFor heaven is hell in re - verse![/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe bruiser spun a hula - hoop[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhile all the barmen preen and pout,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe neon \"I\" of \"night club\" flickers on and off,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd finally blew out,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe irritating jingle of the belly-dancing phoney Turkish girls,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe eerie glare of ultra - violet perfect dental work![/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n This is hell, this is hell, I am ...sorry to tell you,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em7[/ch]\r\nIt ...never gets better or worse! (It never gets better or worse!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em7[/ch]\r\n But you'll get used to it, after a spell,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch]\r\nFor heaven is hell in re - verse![/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe failed Don Juan, in the big bow-tie,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIs very sorry that he spoke,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor he's mislaid his punch-line,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMore than half- way through a very tasteless joke,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe Fräulein caught him peeking down her gown,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe's yelling in her ear,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd all at once the music stopped,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAs he was intimately bellowing, \"My dear...[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n...This is hell, this is hell, I am ...sorry to tell you,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em7[/ch]\r\nIt never gets better or worse, (It never gets better or worse!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n But you'll get used to it, after a spell,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch]\r\nFor heaven is hell in re - verse![/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe shirt you wore with courage,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the violent nylon suit,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nReap - pear upon your back,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd under - mine the polished line you try to shoot,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n It's not the torment of the flames,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat finally seize your flesh cor - rupted,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's the small humiliations that your memory piles up, [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n(This is hell!) This is hell, (This is hell!) this is hell! (Hell!)[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n'My favourite things' are playing a - gain, and again,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut it's by Julie Andrews, and not by John Coltrane,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nEndless balmy breezes in perfect sunsets framed,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nVintage wine for breakfast, and naked starlets floating in Cham - pagne[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAll the passions of your youth ...are tranquilised and tamed,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou may think it looks fa - miliar,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nThough you may know it by another name...[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n...This is hell, this is hell, I am ...sorry to tell you,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em7[/ch]\r\nIt never gets better or worse, (It never gets better or worse!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n But you'll get used to it, after a spell,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor heaven is hell in re - verse, (This is hell!) This hell![/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["D","A","G","Em","G/F#","G/E","Em7","Cadd9","C","Am","A7","Dm","F","Am7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Am7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,0,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Cadd9":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,0,3,0],"frets":[-1,3,2,0,3,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"Em7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,0,3,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,3,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}