Unwanted Number chords

Elvis Costello

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Riff Bm Cx 4 

Riff                  Bm              C        G 
You should hear the things that they say about me 
                 Am                       C 
They're saying "She's no better than she needed to be" 
Riff                 Bm      C        G          Am 
They don't know that he was kind and warm and tender 
                            C 
And soon there's gonna be another Unwanted Number 


Riff Bm C 
Riff Bm F 


Dm 
How can I tell them? 
C           G 
How can I express? 
       F                         C         F       C 
How it felt to step out of this life and into his embrace 
Dm 
How can I tell them? 
C            G 
How can I explain? 
          F               C     F         C 
All the love that I never had I found in him 


Riff            Bm            C     G 
There may be a stain on the family name 
            Am                       C 
And if my father was here I think I know who he'd blame 
Riff           Bm        C      G        Am 
Mama says that he just doesn't care to remember 
                             C 
And all he thinks of me is another Unwanted Number 


Riff Bm C 
         Unwanted Number 
Riff Bm F 


Dm 
How can I tell her? 
C           G 
How can I express? 
       F                        C         F            C 
How it felt when he came to my room and helped me to undress 
Dm 
What can she tell me? 
C            G 
How can I believe 
            F                    C          F        C 
That she really didn't hear me cry when he wouldn't leave? 


Riff            Bm                C          G 
There's a local game where they whisper my shame 
              Am                             C 
They say "He gave her his child he wouldn't give her his name" 
Riff              Bm        C      G      Am 
They will torture me from January till September 
                               C 
And soon there's going to be another Unwanted Number 


Riff Bm C 
         Unwanted Number 
Riff Bm C 
         Unwanted Number 
Am 
And I will give my love to another Unwanted Number 
Riff Bm C 
         Unwanted Number 
Riff Bm C 
         Unwanted Number 
Am 
Soon there's going to be, soon there's going to be 
Another, another, another Unwanted Number 
Riff Bm C 
         Unwanted Number 
Riff Bm C 
         Unwanted Number 
Am 
Soon there's going to be, soon there's going to be 
Another, another, another Unwanted Number 
Riff Bm C 
         Unwanted Number 
Riff Bm C 
         Unwanted Number