A Stitch In Time chords by Chumbawamba

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)


Intro:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA D MajorD
D G+G A augmentedA D MajorD


Verse 1:
D MajorD          G+G
A augmentedA husband came home drunk each night,
    A augmentedA             D MajorD
And he thrashed her black and he thrashed her white,
           G+G
He thrashed her to within an inch of her life,
    A augmentedA             D MajorD
Then he slept like a log, did her husband.

Verse 2:
D MajorD       G+G
As he lay and snored in bed,
 A augmentedA         D MajorD
A augmentedA strange idea came into her head,
                G+G
She went for the needle and she went for the thread,
  A augmentedA            D MajorD
And straight to her sleeping husband.


Interlude:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA D MajorD
D G+G A augmentedA D MajorD


Verse 3:
D MajorD              G+G
She started to stitch with a girlish thrill,
    A augmentedA         D MajorD
With a woman's art and a seamstress' skill,
               G+G
She pinned and tucked with an iron will,
   A augmentedA         D MajorD
All around her sleeping husband.


Verse 4:
D MajorD          G+G
Husband awoke with a pain in his head,
  A augmentedA         D MajorD
He found he could not move in bed,
              G+G
"Sweet Christ I've lost the use of me legs!",
A augmentedA            D MajorD
Wife just smiled at her husband.

Interlude:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA D MajorD
D G+G A augmentedA D MajorD


Verse 5:
D MajorD              G+G
She thrashed him black, she thrashed him blue,
    A augmentedA        D MajorD
With a frying pan and a colander, too,
             G+G
With a rolling pin just a stroke or two,
A augmentedA            D MajorD
A augmentedA battered and bleeding husband.


Verse 6:
D MajorD         G+G
Isn't it true what small can do,
    A augmentedA             D MajorD
With a thread and a stitch and a thought or two,
             G+G
He's wiped his slate, his boozing's through,
  A augmentedA        D MajorD
Goodbye to a drunken husband.


Outro:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA D MajorD