Elvis Costello A Slow Drag With Josephine song lyrics

The snitch, the snoop, the tattletale lead a threadbare up the stairs

Adieu, my little ballyhoo, you broke my heart in two

And now I haunt the bars and scent those trite affairs

She went home to gather her comb and caught him unawares

And there was her man enjoying the lay of the land

He took a walk in the dark with a dish from the stand

Girls and their creations, tight in the brightest grenadine

But I'd take all that I've seen for a slow drag with Josephine

Josephine, Josephine

But I'd trade all that I've seen for

A slow drag with Josephine

Gavotte, garrotes, Cotillions and slow Arabesques

Drum rolls and Farandoles were all made in jest

But when you make that move, I can't resist

When will you declare your armistice?

Josephine, Josephine

But I'd trade all that I've seen for

A slow drag with Josephine

In another time and place, a different fate was cast

He tried to skeddle-daddle-do, she might have slapped him

Just for saying, "Grant one more chance before you pass

Then curse the nurse that named me the first or bury me at last"

And in three-quarter time, the true and the false

Dancing the 'Hesitation Waltz'

Then comes the flirtation and temptation

Hip, hip, hooray, listen to what I say

Then you can take it away