Londons Brilliant Parade
Elvis Costello
"London’s Brilliant Parade" (Capo: 5th. fret) ____Intro: Strings: B & E (Notes on both strings to be played simultaneously) string:* string: * (Repeat *-* 2 more times) ____Verse: 1 Outside my window not long before sleep arrives they come with their sirens___ and they sweep away all the boys busy draining the joy from their___lives they never said their prayers out loud ____Verse: 2 And while I’m dreaming there’s a passing motor car that broadcasts a popular song and a girl appears to be saying "Do you think that I’m going to go___far"? ____Chorus: 1 Just look at me I’m having the time of my_______life or something quite like it when I’m walking out and about in London’s brilliant parade ____Bridge: She’s one of those girls that you just can’t place you feel guilty desiring such an innocent face but of course they knew that____when they cast__her along with the red____Routema__ster and the film takes place in an MGB in a perfect re-creation of "The Speakeasy" everybody looks hap____py and twi__sted though she probably ne____ver exi__sted for old times sake______don’t let me awake______ ____Verse: 3 I wouldn’t want you to walk across Hungerford Bridge especially at twili___ght looking through the bolts and the girders into the water be___low you’ll never find your answer there ____Verse: 4 They sounded the "all-clear" in the occidental bazaar they used to call Oxford Street now the bankrupt souls in the city are finally tasting de___feat ____Chorus: 2 Don’t look at me I’m having the time of my_______life or something quite like it when I’m walking out and about in London’s brilliant parade when I’m walking out and about in London’s brilliant parade ____Verse: 5 From the gates of St. Mary’s there were horses in Olym__pia and a trolley bus in Fulham Broadway the lions and the tigers in Regents Park couldn’t pay their way and now they’re not the only ones ____Verse: 6 At the Hammersmith Palais in Kensington and___Camden town there’s a part that I used to play the lovely Diorama is really part of the drama I’d___say ____Chorus: 1 Just look at me I’m having the time of my_______life or something quite like it when I’m walking out and about in London’s brilliant parade (Repeat chorus) ____Coda: string:* string: * (Repeat *-* 2 more times)