Intro: C G/C F G (2x)
C F
You can tell me your troubles
G C
I'll listen for free
C F G
My regulars trust me, it seems
C F
You can come and see Uncle
G C
To get through the week
F G
Leave your pledges with me to redeem
C F
Some folk sell their bodies
G C
For ten bob a go
C F G
Politicians go pawning their souls
C F
Which doesn't make me
G C F
Look too bad, don't you know me
G
With my heart full of holes
Dm Asus4/Db
All my yesterdays broken
F Asus4/Db Dm
A watch with no face
F Dm/B
All battered and old
Dm Asus4/Db
Bits of the movement
F Dm/B Bb
All over the place
G
And a heart full of holes
C G/C
A heart full of holes
F G
A heart full of holes
C G/C
A heart full of holes
F G
A heart full of holes
C F
Brass knuckles and banjos
G C
Are out on the town
At the knees-up
F G
In Teddy Boys' Row
C F
The gold block and tackle
G C
Tells the time upside down
F G
Rock n' roll, well, I don't know
Dm Asus4/Db
Dead people's wedding gifts
F Asus4/Db
Walk out the door
Dm F Dm/B
A clarinet squeals to be free
Dm Asus4/Db
Accordions hop
F Dm/B
From the shelves to the floor
Bb G
Start playing their polkas to me
Dm F G Dm G F G
Dm F G Dm G F G
C F
There's a ringing of bells
G C
A dunderhead's curse
C F G
Fingers are pointing at you
C F
And you take work in hell
G C
And be glad it's not worse
F G
And you get to the back of the queue
Dm Asus4/Db
Handcuffs and hunting knives
F Asus4/Db
Clang on the bars
Dm F Dm/B
Air pistols shoot out the lights
Dm Asus4/Db
I've a whole Wailing Wall
F Dm/B
Of electric guitars
Bb G
Could shatter the windows
Down Brick Lane tonight
C F
If one of us dies, love
G C
I think I'll retire
C F G
See my boys and my beautiful girls
C F
A Garden of Eden
G C
No gates or barbed wire
F G
Who knows, maybe gates made of pearls
C F
Well, if we go to heaven
G C
And some say we don't
C F G
But if there's a reckoning day
C F
Please God, I'll see you
G C
And maybe I won't
F G
I've a bag packed to go either way
C G/C F G
C G/C F G
C F
Redeeming your pledge, dear
G C
I'll keep it for you
C F G
It's not going to go anywhere
C F
But your soul, your soul
G C
That is not what I do
F G
There's not a lot I can do there
Dm Asus4/Db F
I remember the officer's watch
Asus4/Db
In my hand
Dm F Dm/B
"Repair it or die" I was told
Dm Asus4/Db
It's a wonder to me
F Dm/B
I still don't understand
Bb G
Why I ever survived to be old
C G/C
With a heart full of holes
F G
A heart full of holes
C G/C
A heart full of holes
F G
A heart full of holes
C G/C
A heart full of holes
F G
A heart full of holes
C G/C
A heart full of holes
F G
A heart full of holes
Dm F G Dm G F G (2x)