Bitter Fingers Chords

Key: A 🎸 Verse 1: A E F#m F#m/G# A D/B I'm going on the circuit I'm doing all the clubs Bm A/C# D Esus4 E A/G D/F# E And I really need a song boys to stir those workers up A E F#m F#m/G# A D/B And get their wives to sing it with me just like in the pubs Bm A/C# D D/B Esus4 D/E When I worked the good old pubs in Stepney 🎸 Verse 2: A E F#m F#m/G# A D/B Oh could you knock a line or two together for a friend Bm A/C# D Esus4 E A/G D/F# E Sentimental tear inducing with a happy end A E F#m F#m/G# A D/B And we need a tune to open our season at Southend Bm A/C# D Esus4 E G C/E Cm/Eb C/E Caaaaaaaan you help us

🎸 Chorus: F C/G G It's hard to write a song with bitter fingers C Am Amb5 Am F So much to prove, so few to tell you why C/G G Those old die-hards in Denmark Street start laughing C G/B G/A Am Amb5 Am Dm At the keyboard player's hollow haunted eyes C/E It seems to me a change is really needed F C/G Cm/F# C/G F I'm sick of tra-la-las and la-de-das C/G G No more long days hacking hunks of garbage C E(add9) E7 Bitter fingers never swung on swinging stars, swinging stars A E F#m F#m/G# A D/B A I like the warm blue flame, the hazy heat it brings Bm A/C# D Esus4 E A/G D/F# It loosens up the mu---scles and forces you to sing Bm A/C# D Esus4 E A/G D/F# E You know it's just another hit and run from the tin pan alley twins A E F#m F#m/G# A D/B A And there's a chance that one day you might write a standard lads Bm A/C# D Esus4 E A/G D/F# E So churn them o---ut quick and fast and we'll still pat your backs A E F#m F#m/G# A D/B A 'Cause we need what we can get to launch another dozen acts Bm A/C# D D/B Esus4 E G C/E Cm/Eb C/E A---------re you wor---king