Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Awesome! Yeah I saw that after my first post

Wardo posted it earlier in the thread: "Bullets For The New-Born King (solo, the rest with Sugarcanes) I Lost You Blame It On Cain (!!!) Dr. Watson, I Presume Poor Borrowed Dress A Condemned Man One Bell Ringing A Slow Drag With Josephine Jimmie Standing In The Rain The Spell That You Cast That...

Hey guys, looks like that NYPL concert is airing this week. From the shows facebook: Today kicks off ELVIS COSTELLO WEEK at the Artists Den! Every day this week we’ll be sharing goodies from Elvis’s episode of “Live from the Artists Den” – premiering on public television this Friday! Be sure to chec...

Thanks for the help guys guys! Unless I ever get a chance to interview EC myself ( ) I guess I'll have to settle for humming those first few lines

Here's what I've got on my own from the first verse: Your friends are fainted-hearted ones ..................... wealth (or maybe ...... "as well") At last a proud and perfect sons at least start to swell Swings and the swan girls in polka dots and pearls Hearts as hard as punishment eyes ...

bump!

I've got some of them kind of estimated, but the lines that I just really can't understand are the first few (My/Her/your friends are fainted hearted ones, then something about wealth maybe?) and the one that starts "Now it seems from everything (her/your/a lies a long and ?lank?lag?"

Hi everyone! I'm wondering if anybody has managed to transcribe or find any copies of the lyrics for "Poor Borrowed Dress" (I love this song!). I searched the boards already and saw some lyrics under the section for chords, but I haven't been able to find the whole song anywhere. Any help ...