Pinball chords by Harvey Andrews

Chords with lyrics

INTRO: DmDm A7A7 DmDm A7A7

verse 1

        DmDm
Well, I had the contract with me
   G minorGm
I was opening for a star
  C majorC
I'd seen him on the concert stage
  DmDm
I'd watched him from afar
 FF
I hadn't heard much lately
  C majorC
Of anything he'd done
  DmDm
But he sang songs of rights and wrongs
  A7A7
Of those who'd lost or won

verse 2

     DmDm
So it was in a run down nightclub
   G minorGm
In a broken part of town
   C majorC
I was on the long way up
    DmDm
He was on the long way down
 FF
I saw him in a corner
    C majorC
Playing pinball, killing time
 DmDm
I asked him how he was
      A7A7
And with a smile he answered "Fine"
With a smile he answered "Fine"
Then he said


 FF
"Sonny, it's the same old pinball
 DmDm
I played ten years ago
C majorC
Now it's just like me, friend
  FF        C majorC   FF
The action's getting slow

I've been to the top friend
DmDm
Now I'm way down low
   C majorC
Still playing the same old pinball clubs
          FF  DmDm A7A7 DmDm A7A7
I played ten years ago"

verse 3

   DmDm
Well, never meet your heroes
   G minorGm
I've read that line somewhere
    C majorC
They're just like you and me
       DmDm
With all our hope and our despair
 FF
I said ?It's never that bad
    C majorC
There's always one more day
    DmDm
There's always one more song to sing
  A7A7
And one more tune to play"

verse 4

       DmDm
Well, he just looked me up and down
      G minorGm
And then he slowly shook his head
      C majorC
He said "To stay alive, try 9 to 5
 DmDm
To earn your daily bread"
 FF
I said "You were my idol
  C majorC
You handed me this dream"
     DmDm
He turned away and pointed
    A7A7
To the battered old machine
That battered old machine
And he said

 FF
"Sonny, it's the same old pinball
 DmDm
I played ten years ago
C majorC
Now it's just like me, friend
  FF        C majorC   FF
The action's getting slow

I've been to the top friend
DmDm
Now I'm way down low
   C majorC
Still playing the same old pinball clubs
          FF  DmDm A7A7 DmDm A7A7
I played ten years ago"

VERSE 5

      DmDm
He said "I made a lot of money
   G minorGm
And I drank a lot of wine
 C majorC
I paid for all my pleasures
      DmDm
And I had a real good time
 FF
I never stayed in one place
C majorC
Longer than a day
 DmDm
I gave them pearls and told the girls
 A7A7
I really couldn't stay"

VERSE 6

      DmDm
"But where, where'd it go to sonny?
  G minorGm
It came and went so fast
   C majorC
It's far too easy nowadays
  DmDm
To live back in the past
  FF
But I'm still good for doing
C majorC
What I've always done
   DmDm
There hasn't been a house yet
 A7A7
I haven't fought and won
I haven't fought and won."
Then he said


 FF
"Sonny, it's the same old pinball
 DmDm
I played ten years ago
C majorC
Now it's just like me, friend
  FF        C majorC   FF
The action's getting slow

I've been to the top friend
DmDm
Now I'm way down low
   C majorC
Still playing the same old pinball clubs
          FF  DmDm A7A7 DmDm A7A7
I played ten years ago"

VERSE 7

  DmDm
"So now they're out there waiting
     G minorGm
And they don't know who you are
   C majorC
They don't care for your future
    DmDm
They'll just prop up the bar
  FF
And you, you'll sing your heart out
  C majorC
And maybe some will hear
  DmDm
And maybe you'll come back
       A7A7
And play this place again next year"

VERSE 8

            DmDm
"So, go on and do your set now, sonny
 G minorGm
Before they get too drunk
  C majorC
And please, don't count them, sonny
   DmDm
These glasses that I've sunk
   FF
I'll do my show, remember
   C majorC
I've never lost them yet
  DmDm
But sonny, sometimes lately
A7A7
It's been an even bet
It's been an even bet."
Then he said


 FF
"Sonny, it's the same old pinball
 DmDm
I played ten years ago
C majorC
Now it's just like me, friend
  FF        C majorC   FF
The action's getting slow

I've been to the top friend
DmDm
Now I'm way down low
   C majorC
Still playing the same old pinball clubs
          FF  DmDm A7A7 DmDm A7A7
I played ten years ago"

VERSE 9

     DmDm
He's long gone and forgotten
  G minorGm
His name you never knew
  C majorC
But what reminded me
      DmDm
Was when I turned and looked at you
FF
Standing there so happy
     C majorC
With your new guitar and dreams
DmDm
One question for you, sonny
    A7A7
Can you play these machines
Can you play these machines


 FF
'Cause sonny it's the same old pinball
  DmDm
He played ten years ago
  C majorC
And now it's just like me friend
  FF        C majorC   FF
The action's getting slow

I've been to the top friend
  DmDm
And now I'm way down low
   C majorC
Still playing the same old pinball clubs
          FF
I played ten years ago"
     C majorC
Yes, I'm playing the same old pinball clubs
          FF
I played ten years ago"