Alison es una canción escrita por Elvis Costello, supuestamente sobre una mujer que vio en una fiesta. Aunque el propio Costello ha sido algo ambiguo sobre el verdadero significado de la canción, a menudo se interpreta como una expresión de amor no correspondido.
Tono: A
Introducción:
B
G#m
A
C#m
B
F#m
G#m
G#m
G#m
B
A
E
Oh it's so funny to be seeing you after so long girl
A
G#m
C#m
B
And by the way you look I understand that you were not impressed
A
G#m
C#m
But I heard you let that little friend of mine
D
B7(4)
B7
Take off your party dress
A
G#m
C#m
I'm not gonna get too sentimental
B
A
G#m
C#m
B
Like those other sticky valentines
A
G#m
C#m
Cause I don't know if you were loving somebody
D
B7(4)
B7
I only know it isn't mine
A
E
A
B
G#m
G#7
C#m
B
Alison I know this world is killing you
A
E
A
B
E
Oh Alison my aim is true
A
E
Well I see you've got a husband now
A
G#m
C#m
B
Did he leave your pretty fingers lying in the wedding cake
A
G#m
C#m
You used to hold him right in your hand
D
B7(4)
B7
But he took all that he could take
A
G#m
C#m
Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking