C  G/C  F  G
C  G/C  F  G

[Verse 1]
        C            F
You can tell me your troubles
     G          C
I'll listen for free
   C        F        F     G
My regulars trust me, it seems
        C            F
You can come and see Uncle
   G               C
To get through the week
           F            F       G
Leave your pledges with me to redeem

[Verse 2]
     C               F
Some folk sell their bodies
    G            C
For ten bob a go
      C        F             F    G
Politicians go pawning their souls
      C            F
Which doesn't make me
         G              C    
Look too bad, don't you know 
F            F            G
Me with my heart full of holes

[Bridge 1]
       Dm         DmMaj7    Dm7           DmMaj7   Dm
All my yesterdays broken, a watch with no face
    Dm7          G7/B
All battered and old
Dm          DmMaj7       Dm7       G7/B
Bits of the movement all over the place
Bb                     G
   And a heart full of holes

[Chorus]
                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

[Verse 3]
      C            F
Brass knuckles and banjos
    G          C
Are out on the town
        C           F          F      G
At the knees-up in Teddy Boys' Row
    C              F
The gold block and tackle
          G           C
Tells the time upside down
F              F             G
Rock n' roll, well, I don't know

[Bridge 2]
Dm            DmMaj7        Dm7          DmMaj7
Dead people's wedding gifts walk out the door
  Dm         Dm7          G7/B
A clarinet squeals to be free
  Dm       DmMaj7        Dm7           G7/B
Accordions hop from the shelves to the floor
        Bb                     G
Start playing their polkas to me

[Solo]
| Dm F | G Dm | G F | G |
| Dm F | G Dm | G F | G |

[Verse 4]
          C          F
There's a ringing of bells
  G            C
A dunderhead's curse
C           F            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                F          G
And you get to the back of the queue

[Bridge 3]
Dm            DmMaj7          Dm7         DmMaj7
Handcuffs and hunting knives clang on the bars
Dm          Dm7            G7/B
Air pistols shoot out the lights
       Dm7           DmMaj7   Dm7        G7/B
I've a whole Wailing Wall of electric guitars
        Bb                      G
Could shatter the windows down Brick Lane tonight
      
[Verse 5]
   C         F
If one of us dies, love
  G            C
I think I'll retire
       C           F          F     G
See my boys and my beautiful girls
  C          F
A Garden of Eden
   G               C
No gates or barbed wire
    F              F            G
Who knows, maybe gates made of pearls

[Verse 6]
      C           F
Well, if we go to heaven
    G           C
And some say we don't
    C             F        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                F       G
I've a bag packed to go either way

[Interlude]
C  G/C  F  G
C  G/C  F  G

[Verse 7]
C               F
Redeeming your pledge, dear
     G           C
I'll keep it for you
     C            F      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         F         G
There's not a lot I can do there

[Bridge 4]
     Dm        DmMaj7     Dm7         DmMaj7     
I remember the officer's watch In my hand
    Dm         Dm7        G7/B
"Repair it or die" I was told
        Dm       DmMaj7      Dm7         G7/B 
It's a wonder to me, I still don't understand
      Bb                  G
Why I ever survived to be old

[Chorus]
                      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

[Outro]
| Dm F | G Dm | G F | G |
| Dm F | G Dm | G F | G |
| G    | 
Fade out on G