Bitter Fingers Lyrics

I’m Going On The Circuit,
Doing All The Clubs
And I Really Need A Song, Boys,
To Stir Those Workers Up
And Get Their Wives To Sing It
With Me Just Like In The Pubs
When I Worked The Good Old
Pubs In Stepney

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,
Can You Help Us?

It’s Hard To Write A Song
With Bitter Fingers
So Much To Prove,
So Few To Tell You Why
Those Old Die-hards In
Denmark Street Start Laughing
At The Keyboard Player’s
Hollow Haunted Eyes

It Seems To Me A Change Is Really,
Really Needed
I’m Sick Of Tra-la-las
And La-de-das
No More Long Days Hacking
Hunks Of Garbage
Bitter Fingers Never Swung On
Swinging Stars, Swinging Stars

I Like The Warm Blue Flame,
The Hazy Heat It Brings
It Loosens Up The Muscles
And Forces You To Sing
You Know It’s Just Another
Hit And Run
From The Tin Pan Alley Twins

And There’s A Chance That One Day
You Might Write A Standard Lads,
So Churn Them Out Quick And Fast
And We’ll Still Pat Your Backs
’cause We Need What We Can Get
To Launch Another Dozen Acts
Are You Working?

It’s Hard To Write A Song
With Bitter Fingers
So Much To Prove,
So Few To Tell You Why
Those Old Die-hards In
Denmark Street Start Laughing
At The Keyboard Player’s
Hollow Haunted Eyes

It Seems To Me A Change Is Really,
Really Needed
I’m Sick Of Tra-la-las
And La-de-das
No More Long Days Hacking
Hunks Of Garbage
Bitter Fingers Never Swung
On Swinging Stars, Swinging Stars

It’s Hard To Write A Song
With Bitter Fingers
So Much To Prove,
So Few To Tell You Why
Those Old Die-hards In
Denmark Street Start Laughing
At The Keyboard Player’s
Hollow Haunted Eyes

It Seems To Me A Change
Is Really, Really Needed
I’m Sick Of Tra-la-las
And La-de-das
No More Long Days Hacking
Hunks Of Garbage
Bitter Fingers Never Swung
On Swinging Stars, Swinging Stars

Swinging Stars,
Swinging Stars
It’s Hard To Write A Song
With Bitter Fingers
So Much To Prove,
So Few To Tell You Why
Those Old Die-hards In
Denmark Street Start Laughing