A Little Death Around The Eyes Chords
by Pete Doherty
A Little Death Around The Eyes by Pete Doherty is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D7, Gm, Cm, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
D7 Gm Cm Gm Cm
A little death around the eyes
Em Am
Your boyfriend's name was Dave
Em Am
But I was bold and brave
D7
And now you're mine
Gm
You'll cook and clean and sew when I tell you to
Cm
When I ask you to
Gm
If I ask you to
Cm
Then I want you to
Gm
You don't need telling twice with me
No you don't need telling twice
Cm
You know who wears the trousers
No one wears the trousers
Gm
(In a nutshell)
Cm
To break free
Yeah well, you'll never break free of me
Em Am
Your boyfriend's name was Dave
Em Am
But I was bold and brave
D7
And now you're mine
Gm
You'll cook and clean and sew when I tell you to
Cm
And you'll dance and screw when I want you to
Gm
In the hotel room you take your medicine
Cm
On all fours that's your medicine
Gm Cm
You're feeling better, son?
Gm
(Filling in the cracks)
Cm
Feeling any better, son?
(In a nutshell
Gm Cm
I'll wish upon a star)
Gm
Some vague idea of a man you used to be
Cm
Of the man you used to be to me
Gm
(Filling in the cracks)
Fee fi fo fum
Cm
Smell the blood of an Englishman
Be he alive or be he dead
Gm Cm
(Filling in the cracks)
(Wish upon a star)
Gm
A little death around the eyes