Elvis Costello - I dont want to go to chelsea
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(I DON'T WANT TO GO TO) CHELSEA
As recorded by Elvis Costello
(From the 1978 Album THIS YEAR'S MODEL)
Words and Music by Elvis Costello
Transcribed by Slowhand
Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Elvis Costello - Electric Guitar'
Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'Steve Nieve - Clavinet'
Intro
Q=85
N.C.
4/4
Gtr I (El. Gtr.)
Wx2 H S T T S S S S S S S S S S E e S T T S S S S S S
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|------------|------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|------------|------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|------------|-------------/9-9-9-9-9-7-----|-----------7---/9-9-9-9-9-7-----|
|------------|--------------------------9-7-|-5-5-5-5-7------------------9-7-|
|------------|------------------------------|--------------------------------|
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| Gtr II (Clavinet arr. for Gtr.)
| W E S S E E S S S S S S S S E S S E E S S S S S S S S
|------------|------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|------------|------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|------------|------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|------------|---9-----7----------------7---|-----9-----7----------------7---|
|------------|------------------5-----------|--------------------5-----------|
|------------|-7---7-5------3-----3-5-5---5-|-7-----7-5------3-----3-5-5---5-|
S S S S E e S T T S S S S S S
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|-----------7---/9-9-9-9-9-7-----|
|-5-5-5-5-7------------------9-7-|
|--------------------------------|
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| E S S E E S S S S S S S S
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|-----9-----7----------------7---|
|--------------------5-----------|
|-7-----7-5------3-----3-5-5---5-|
1st Verse
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| E S S E E S S S S S S S S 9x
||-----------------------------||
||o---------------------------o||
||-----------------------------||
||----9-----7-------------7----||
||o---------------5-----------o||
||--7---7-5-----3---3-5-5---5--||
Chorus
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| |-3-| |-3-| |-3-|
| E S S E E S S S S S S S S 8x E E E E E E E E E E E
||-----------------------------||-----------------------||
||o---------------------------o||-----------------------||
||-----------------------------||-----------------------||
||----9-----7-------------7----||---5-----4-----2---0-0-||
||o---------------5-----------o||-----------------------||
||--7---7-5-----3---3-5-5---5--||-3---3-2---2-0---0-----||
Chorus
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| S S S S E E E E S S S S 4x S S S S Q E E Q
||---------------------------||-------------------||
||o-------------------------o||-------------------||
||---------------------------||-------------------||
||--x-5-4-2-0---5------------||-x-5-3-4-----------||
||o-------------------------o||-------------------||
||------------3---3-2-3-2-3--||------------0-0----||
Outro
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| E S S E E S S S S S S S S E S S E E S S S S S S S S 9x
|------------------------------||----------------------------------||
|------------------------------||o--------------------------------o||
|------------------------------||----------------------------------||
|---9-----7----------------7---||------9-----7----------------7----||
|------------------5-----------||o--------------------5-----------o||
|-7---7-5------3-----3-5-5---5-||--7-----7-5------3-----3-5-5---5--||
Duration Legend
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W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Low
melody durations appear below the staff
Tablature Legend
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h - hammer-on
p - pull-off
b - bend
pb - pre-bend
r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
/\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
s - legato slide
S - shift slide
- natural harmonic
[n] - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
~ - vibrato
tr - trill
T - tap
TP - trem. picking
PM - palm muting
\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
\n - tremolo bar down
n/ - tremolo bar up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
= - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
<> - volume swell (louder/softer)
x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash
Misc Legend
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| - bar
|| - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*| - double bar (ending)
: - bar (freetime)
$ - Segno
& - Coda
Tempo markers - = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths
S S S S E e S T T S S S S S S
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| E S S E E S S S S S S S S E S S E E S S S S S S S S 8x
|--------------------------------||------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||o----------------------------o||
|--------------------------------||------------------------------||
|-----9-----7----------------7---||----9-----7-------------7-----||
|--------------------5-----------||o---------------5------------o||
|-7-----7-5------3-----3-5-5---5-||--7---7-5-----3---3-5-5---5---||
Chorus
N.C.
W 8x |--------------------------------||------------------------------|| |--------------------------------||o----------------------------o|| |--------------------------------||------------------------------|| |-----------7---/9-9-9-9-9-7-----||------------------------------|| |-5-5-5-5-7------------------9-7-||o----------------------------o|| |--------------------------------||------------------------------|| W
|
| |-3-| |-3-| |-3-|
| E E E E E E E E E E E S S S S E E E E S S S S
|-----------------------||--------------------------|
|-----------------------||o-------------------------|
|-----------------------||--------------------------|
|---5-----4-----2---0-0-||--x-5-4-2-0---5-----------|
|-----------------------||o-------------------------|
|-3---3-2---2-0---0-----||------------3---3-2-3-2-3-|
W
|---------------------------||
|--------------------------o||
|---------------------------||
|---------------------------||
|--------------------------o||
|---------------------------||
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| S S S S E E E E S S S S
|---------------------------||
|--------------------------o||
|---------------------------||
|-x-5-4-2-0---5-------------||
|--------------------------o||
|-----------3---3-2-3-2-3---||
W H S T T S S S S S S
|-------------------|------------------------------|
|-------------------|------------------------------|
|-------------------|------------------------------|
|-------------------|-------------/9-9-9-9-9-7-----|
|-------------------|--------------------------9-7-|
|-------------------|------------------------------|
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| S S S S Q E E Q E S S E E S S S S S S S S
|-------------------|------------------------------|
|-------------------|------------------------------|
|-------------------|------------------------------|
|-x-5-3-4-----------|---9-----7----------------7---|
|-------------------|------------------5-----------|
|------------0-0----|-7---7-5------3-----3-5-5---5-|
S S S S E e S T T S S S S S S
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|-----------7---/9-9-9-9-9-7-----||
|-5-5-5-5-7------------------9-7-||
|--------------------------------||
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| E S S E E S S S S S S S S
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|-----9-----7----------------7---||
|--------------------5-----------||
|-7-----7-5------3-----3-5-5---5-||
2nd Verse
N.C.
W |-----------------------||--------------------------| |-----------------------||o-------------------------| |-----------------------||--------------------------| |-----------------------||--------------------------| |-----------------------||o-------------------------| |-----------------------||--------------------------|N.C.
W 9x ||-----------------------------|| ||o---------------------------o|| ||-----------------------------|| ||-----------------------------|| ||o---------------------------o|| ||-----------------------------|| W
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| |-3-| |-3-| |-3-|
| E E E E E E E E E E E S S S S E E E E S S S S 4x
|-----------------------||-----------------------------||
|-----------------------||o---------------------------o||
|-----------------------||-----------------------------||
|---5-----4-----2---0-0-||---x-5-4-2-0---5-------------||
|-----------------------||o---------------------------o||
|-3---3-2---2-0---0-----||-------------3---3-2-3-2-3---||
W H S T T S S S S S S
|-------------------|------------------------------|
|-------------------|------------------------------|
|-------------------|------------------------------|
|-------------------|-------------/9-9-9-9-9-7-----|
|-------------------|--------------------------9-7-|
|-------------------|------------------------------|
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| S S S S Q E E Q E S S E E S S S S S S S S
|-------------------|------------------------------|
|-------------------|------------------------------|
|-------------------|------------------------------|
|-x-5-3-4-----------|---9-----7----------------7---|
|-------------------|------------------5-----------|
|------------0-0----|-7---7-5------3-----3-5-5---5-|
S S S S E e S T T S S S S S S S S S S E e S T T S S S S S S
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-----------7---/9-9-9-9-9-7-----|-----------7---/9-9-9-9-9-7-----|
|-5-5-5-5-7------------------9-7-|-5-5-5-5-7------------------9-7-|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
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| E S S E E S S S S S S S S E S S E E S S S S S S S S
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-----9-----7----------------7---|-----9-----7----------------7---|
|--------------------5-----------|--------------------5-----------|
|-7-----7-5------3-----3-5-5---5-|-7-----7-5------3-----3-5-5---5-|
S S S S E e S T T S S S S S S
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|-----------7---/9-9-9-9-9-7-----|
|-5-5-5-5-7------------------9-7-|
|--------------------------------|
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| E S S E E S S S S S S S S
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|-----9-----7----------------7---|
|--------------------5-----------|
|-7-----7-5------3-----3-5-5---5-|
3rd Verse
N.C.
W 4x |-----------------------||-----------------------------|| |-----------------------||o---------------------------o|| |-----------------------||-----------------------------|| |-----------------------||-----------------------------|| |-----------------------||o---------------------------o|| |-----------------------||-----------------------------||N.C.
W 8x W ||-----------------------------||-----------------------|| ||o---------------------------o||-----------------------|| ||-----------------------------||-----------------------|| ||-----------------------------||-----------------------|| ||o---------------------------o||-----------------------|| ||-----------------------------||-----------------------||N.C.
W 4x W ||---------------------------||-------------------|| ||o-------------------------o||-------------------|| ||---------------------------||-------------------|| ||---------------------------||-------------------|| ||o-------------------------o||-------------------|| ||---------------------------||-------------------||N.C.
H S T T S S S S S S S S S S E e S T T S S S S S S 9x |------------------------------||----------------------------------|| |------------------------------||o--------------------------------o|| |------------------------------||----------------------------------|| |-------------/9-9-9-9-9-7-----||------------7---/9-9-9-9-9-7------|| |--------------------------9-7-||o-5-5-5-5-7------------------9-7-o|| |------------------------------||----------------------------------||