Bitter Fingers
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the Album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
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I'm going on the circuit, I'm doing all the clubs
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And I really need a song boys to stir those workers up
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And get their wives to sing it with me just like in the pubs
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When I worked the good old pubs in Stepney
Oh could you knock a line or two together for a friend
Sentimental tear inducing with a happy end
And we need a tune to open our season at Southend
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Can you help us
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It's hard to write a song with bitter fingers
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So much to prove, so few to tell you why
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Those old die-hards in Denmark Street start laughing
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At the keyboard player's hollow haunted eyes
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It seems to me a change is really needed
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I'm sick of tra-la-las and la-de-das
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No more long days hacking hunks of garbage
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Bitter fingers never swung on swinging stars, swinging stars
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I like the warm blue flame, the hazy heat it brings
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It loosens up the muscles and forces you to sing
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You know it's just another hit and run from the tin pan alley twins
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And there's a chance that one day you might write a standard lads
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So churn them out quick and fast and we'll still pat your backs
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`Cause we need what we can get to launch another dozen acts
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Are you working
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