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