Chord This Years Girl by Elvis Costello

fantastic song . had to hunt for this tab and found it on an elvis costello website , so credit and thanks to mats jansson for doing the groundwork and allowing me to play this masterpiece . ive changed/addEd to/subtracted from it quite a bit to suit how i play it so feel free to compare with the original tab : Bmsus4 i like to play this at the 7th fret E A D G B E x 2 4 4 5 2 intro : D C D C G | - 6/76 - - - - - - | | - 4/55 - - - - - - - | D | - x - x - x - 7 - 2 - - | | - x - x - x - 5 - 4 - 2 - | A | - 4/54 - x - x - - | | - 2/32 - x - x - x - | E | - - - - - - - 5 - 0 - - | x5 | - - - - - - - 3 - 2 - 0 - | riff 2 D Bm A see her picture in a thousand places ’cause she’s this year’s girl . D Bm F#m riff 1 you think you all own little pieces of this year’s girl . G A G A forget your fancy manners , forget your english grammar , G A Dsus4 D Dsus2 D ’cause you don’t really give a damn about this year’s girl . repeat intro , then the same chords as verse 1 . still you’re hoping that she’s well spoken ’cause she’s this year’s girl . you want her broken with her mouth wide open ’cause she’s this year’s girl . never knowing if? it’s a real attraction , all these promises of satisfaction , while she’s being bored to distraction being this year’s girl . Bm G D time’s running out . she’s not happy with the cost . E7 intro riff E there’d be no doubt , only she’s forgotten much more than she’s lost . riff 2 D Bm A a bright spark might corner the market in this year’s girl . D Bm F#m riff 1 you see yourself rolling on the carpet with this year’s girl . G A G A those disco synthezisers , those daily tranquilizers , G A G A those body building prizes , those bedroom alibis; G A Dsus4 D Bmsus4 Bm all this , but no surprises for this year’s girl . G A F#m Bmsus4 Bm all this , but no surprises for this year’s girl . G A Dsus4 D all this , but no surprises for this year’s girl . outro : play intro riff then i do something like this : E | - 0 - - 0~ - - - - - - - - - - 0 - | B | - 0 - - 0~ - - - - - - - - - - 0 - | G | - 9 - - 9 - - 7~ - - - /9 - - 9 - | D | - 9 - - 9 - - 7~ - - - /9 - - 9 - | A | - 7 - - 7 - - 5~ - - - /7 - - 7 - | E | - - - - - - - - - - 0~ - 0 - - 0 - | play a few times then end on the big E chord riff 1 between F#m and G G | - - - - - 2 - - - - - | D | - 2h4 - - - 4 - 2 - | riff 2 play before the D at the start of each verse after intro riff A | - 0 - 0 - 2 - 2 - 4 - 4 - | this also came in handy when learning the song , and its worth a watch or 3 :