Bitter Fingers chords by Elton John

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Advanced

Key: A augmentedA

🎸 Verse 1:

A augmentedA        E MajorE    F# minorF#m    F#m/G#  A augmentedA   D/B
I'm going on the circuit
I'm doing all the  clubs
B minorBm  A/C#A/C#  D MajorD   Esus4Esus4 E MajorE   A/GA/G        D/F#D/F# E MajorE
And I really need a song boys to stir those workers up
A augmentedA               E MajorE    F# minorF#m    F#m/G#  A augmentedA D/B
And get their wives to sing it with me just like in the  pubs
B minorBm   A/C#A/C#    D MajorD    D/B    Esus4Esus4  D/ED/E
When I worked the good old pubs in Stepney

🎸 Verse 2:
A augmentedA        E MajorE    F# minorF#m    F#m/G#  A augmentedA   D/B
Oh could you knock a line or two together for a friend
B minorBm  A/C#A/C#  D MajorD  Esus4Esus4 E MajorE A/GA/G     D/F#D/F# E MajorE
Sentimental tear inducing with a happy end
A augmentedA           E MajorE    F# minorF#m   F#m/G#  A augmentedA D/B
And we need a tune to open our season at Southend
B minorBm A/C#A/C# D MajorD   Esus4Esus4 E MajorE G+G C/EC/E Cm/Eb C/EC/E
Caaaaaaaan you help us

🎸 Chorus:

FF               C/GC/G  G+G
It's hard to write a song with bitter fingers
C majorC             A minorAm    Amb5 A minorAm FF
So much to prove, so few to tell you why
                C/GC/G       G+G
Those old die-hards in Denmark Street start laughing
    C majorC          G/BG/B G/AG/A A minorAm  Amb5 A minorAm DmDm
At the keyboard player's hollow haunted eyes
              C/EC/E
It seems to me a change is really needed
FF             C/GC/G   Cm/F# C/GC/G FF
I'm sick of tra-la-las and la-de-das
             C/GC/G     G+G
No more long days hacking hunks of garbage
    C majorC           E(add9)     E7E7
Bitter fingers never swung on swinging stars, swinging stars

A augmentedA          E MajorE   F# minorF#m      F#m/G# A augmentedA   D/B A augmentedA
I like the warm blue flame, the hazy heat it  brings
B minorBm    A/C#A/C# D MajorD  Esus4Esus4 E MajorE    A/GA/G      D/F#D/F#
It loosens up the mu---scles and forces you to sing
B minorBm      A/C#A/C# D MajorD   Esus4Esus4  E MajorE      A/GA/G      D/F#D/F#  E MajorE
You know it's just another hit and run from the tin pan alley twins

A augmentedA             E MajorE    F# minorF#m      F#m/G# A augmentedA      D/B A augmentedA
And there's a chance that one day you might write a   standard lads
B minorBm      A/C#A/C# D MajorD Esus4Esus4   E MajorE  A/GA/G           D/F#D/F#  E MajorE
So churn them o---ut quick and fast and we'll still pat your backs
A augmentedA          E MajorE     F# minorF#m     F#m/G# A augmentedA     D/B A augmentedA
'Cause we need what we can get to launch another dozen acts
B minorBm A/C#A/C# D MajorD D/B   Esus4Esus4 E MajorE   G+G C/EC/E Cm/Eb C/EC/E
A---------re you wor---king