A Stitch In Time chords by Chumbawamba

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)


Intro:
D G A D
D G A D


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

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


Interlude:
D G A D
D G A D


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


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


Interlude:
D G A D
D G A D


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


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


Outro:
D G A D