Georgie And Her Rival
Words & Music:
Declan
Patrick Aloysius MacManus (Elvis Costello)
Transcribed by: Christian
Korbanka
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Georgie grew to hate her
name. It sounded like a tiny man.
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And the one she had said
"I Can't see you
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G D/Fis C/E
But I'll call you, whenever I
can!"
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C
Sometimes the phone would ring,
when she was half asleep
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D C
A voice would drag her down
with its suggestions
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Eb F
Though she often felt cheated,
she never felt cheap
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Well heaven know what fills the
heart and makes you feel so alive
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It's impossible to tear apart
Georgie and her rival
It was half-past February &
he hadn't called since New Year's day
Maybe he'd found another woman
to say
Those words no chapel girl
should say
Her mother would phone and
always keep her talking
She'd try to be polite, making
faces
But somewhere in the back of
her mind
Her rival was stalking
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Her rival would always wait
'til the eighth or ninth bell
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He'd be desperate anyway and
drunk as well
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She always like to hurt him to
prove he was prepared
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To love her anyway that she
wanted so she could tell which she preferred
He sat up with his addressbook,
trying to think what mood he's in
His finger traced past
Georgie's name to someone who needed less persuading
He didn't hear through her
disguise he didn't leave her in a rush
Just like the promise that he
left on her machine that always made her blush
The radio plays a lover's
symphony
"The number you have
dialed has been re-directed"
Now she puts him on the
speaker-phone whenever she has company
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