Pads, Paws and Claws Lyrics

Pads, Paws & Claws - Elvis Costello
Main Riff:
Bottom E -1-1-3-1-1-3-1-1-3-1-1-3-1-1-3-1-1-3-1-1-3-1-1-3
Verse One:
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She's a feline tormentor, not any vaudeville wife
But with a drunk-town lament
He leads her a miserable life
But when he's full of that beer-champagne
No Chord
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws
Verse Two:
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And if he should wake up in some terrible dive
And he don't know if he's so-so
But he's so surprised he's alive
"Come on little honey, let me under your hive"
No Chord
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws
Bridge:
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She pads, pads around the bedroom,
Practicing ways to flirt
He paws, pours another drink and anything in a skirt
Anything wearing a necklace
He thinks of claws scratching his back
he's going out there he's not coming back
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She's got spider-leg fingers,
Sharpened whenever he strays
And she carries a bird-purse,
With all of her womanly ways
While he's drinking hairspray,
She knows that he never would dare
She could be in pictures if she wasn't all covered in fur
He's coming home now and here's the surprise
You wouldn't believe the lies that he tries
She cut him down to her favourite size
No Chord
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws
Main Riff---------------------------
She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws
Repeat to Fade
(----- etc means ?Keep playing the riff? or ?Keep hitting the chord?. The chords in the
are just hit staccato notes whereas in the verse it has an up, up, change rhythm)