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Pump It Up by Elvis Costello - Guitar Chords

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Version 1

            Pump It Up - Elvis Costello

[Intro]
(Bass)
| F#   D#   E D# A A# | F# F# E  F#   E F# E  |  x3
| F#   D#   E D# A A# | F# F# G# G# A A A# A# |
                        (begin guitar)
B  B  B A# A  x4

[Verse]
B7
I've been on tenterhooks, ending in dirty looks
List'ning to the Muzak, thinking 'bout this 'n' that
She said "That's that, I don't wanna chitter-chat"
Turn it down a little bit or turn it down flat

[Chorus]
E7
Pump it up!
When you don't really need it
Pump it up!
Until you can feel it

[Instrumental]
B  B  B A# A  x4

[Verse]
B7
Down in the pleasure centre, hell-bent or heaven-sent
Listen to the propaganda, listen to the latest slander
There's nothing underhand that she wouldn't understand

[Chorus]
E7
Pump it up!
Until you can feel it
Pump it up!
When you don't really need it

B  B  B A# A  x8
then land on E7
Hang on with the drum beat 4 measures

[Interlude]
B  B  B A# A  x4

[Verse]
B7
She's been a bad girl, she's like a chemical
Though you try to stop it, she's like a narcotic
You wanna torture her, you wanna talk to her
All the things you bought for her, putting up your temperature

[Chorus]
E7
Pump it up!
until you can feel it
Pump it up!
when you don't really need it

[Interlude]
B  B  B A# A  x4

[Verse]
E7
Out in the fashion show, down in the bargain bin
You put your passion out under the pressure pin
B7
Fall into submission, hit-and-run transmission
No use wishing now for any other sin

[Chorus]
E7
Pump it up!
Until you can feel it
Pump it up!
When you don't really need it

[Interlude]
B  B  B A# A  x4

[Chorus]
E7
Pump it up!
Until you can feel it
Pump it up!
When you don't really need it

[Interlude]
B  B  B A# A  x4

[Chorus]
E7
Pump it up!
Until you can feel it
Pump it up!
When you don't really need it

[Outro]
B  B  B A# A  x4
Don't really need it! Don't really need it!

B  B  B A# A  x4
Don't really need it!

B  B  B A# A  x2
(fade out)

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