Bitter Fingers chords by Elton John

• Difficulty: Advanced

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