Pearls Cafe chords by The Specials

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Intro:

| G       | G       | G      |
| C       | C   B   | C      |
| G       | Em  Ebm | Dm     |
| B  C    |




🎸 Verse 1:
F              G           C                F
You saw a woman in a cafe, lips of crimson, yellow grin
G                             F                C    C  Dm  Em
 Her shoes were wrong and she looked extremely thin
F                      G                     C                F
 Her jewels were faked, she had a rinse, her hair was greyish blue
G                        F                C    C  Dm  Em
 She looked ashamed when she explained to you

🎸 Chorus:
         Am                D7        F
It ain't easy when there's no one to lean on
         Am                D7     Ebm  Em
It ain't easy when there's nobody there
         Am             D7         F
It ain't easy when your lovers are all gone
Fm     C      Em  Dm  G
Nobody there, nobody  cares


🎸 Verse 2:
F                              G              C                      F
 The pubs were closed she'd got nowhere to go when she'd spilled her tea
        G                   F                 C    C  Dm  Em
Have you never thought, one day that could be me?
F                              G                 C                 F
 Her temper changed, she looked so deranged, her perfume turned to gin
G                      F            C    C  Dm  Em
 You looked at her and she began to sing


🎸 Chorus:
     Am    D7      F
It's all a load of bollocks
     Am    D7      Ebm  Em
It's all a load of bollocks
     Am    D7      F
It's all a load of bollocks
Fm   C        Em  Dm  G
 And bollocks to  it  all


🎸 Instrumental:
| G      | G       | G      | G      |
| C      | C   B   | C      | C      |
| G      | Em  Ebm | Dm     |
| B  C   |
| F      | G       | C      | F      |
| G      | F       | C      |


🎸 Verse 3:
C   Dm   Em
You tell me
N.C.
You think that they should lock her away and scrape the make-up off her skin
N.C.
Then we'd see the warts around her chin
C   Dm    Em
She tried to
N.C.
Keep her looks but lost her mind when she lost her youth and grace
N.C.                                        C   Dm   Em
Your words were just an insult to her face


🎸 Chorus:
         Am                D7        F
It ain't easy when there's no one to lean on
         Am                D7     Ebm  Em
It ain't easy when there's nobody there
         Am             D7         F
It ain't easy when your lovers are all gone
Fm   C        Em  Dm  G
 And bollocks to  it  all


🎸 Outro:
                 G
When I first saw you
G                            C         B    C
 I really thought you were a wet dream come true
                          G   Em  Ebm  Dm
Now I know that you don't care
                      B    C
About somebody else's nightmare