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 :
http : //www . youtube . com/watch?v = vmarptqnc – y