Transcribed by Nathan Eltis
Note he uses the same G to Cadd9 change technique that he uses in When I
First Met your Ma
Intro
G Cadd9 x 2
Verse 1
G Cadd9
Elly wrapped her 19 years in a coat from '41
D G
She had the looks that would make a grown man cry
G Cadd9
From the Diamantina River country, she crossed the dry mid-west
D
G
From her childhood dreams and sheltered schemes she cut the ties
Verse 2 Same chords
The commercial man made blunt demands, as they travelled south by east
Elly turned into a woman overnight
The her sat her down in the heart of town
The millionaire's retreat
She gazed up the tall, glassed concrete walls of main street Surfers
Paradise
Chorus 1
Cadd9
If the deck's been marked before the deal
D
You learn to compromise
C G
Get to know the cool hand with dice
G Cadd9
Learn to live off losers, cause they make their mistakes twice
D Cadd9
Your'e living in high society cos your'e street wise
Interlude
G Cadd9
Just to Survive (who knows what he sings in this little ad lib?)
G Cadd9
Just to Survive
Verse 3
With her big blue eyes and centerfold looks, man she stacked them in
All the senators and doctors called her Madam
With her fifteen girls she built a world, A pleasured paradise
On what a man of God would call the wages of sin
Chorus 2 same as before
Interlude 2 same as before
Verse 4
Now a wealth woman drinks with diamnd rings, sits 20 storeys high
And gazes out as the sun lifts from the sea
To make it to the top, Elly sacrificed a lot
And found that a seven figure sum, much too high a fee
Chorus and interlude to fade