The Big Hurt

The Big Hurt:Del Shannon.
#94 on BB Hot 100 on LIBERTY
Records in 1966. (Cover of
Toni Fisher's hit (#3) from 1959.)

INTRO: Dm A Bb A Bb 

#1.
A              Bb
Now it begins..now that you're gone.
A                 Bb
Needles and pins..twilight til dawn.
A             Gb    Bm        D
Watching that clock til you return.
Dbm         C         B           E
Hiding that torch and watching it burn.

#2.
A              Bb
Now it begins..day after day.
A                Bb
This is my life..ticking away.
A          Dbm  Gbm   Bm             D
Waiting to hear.......footsteps that say..
Dbm       Cm         B            E
love will appear and this time to stay.

BRIDGE:
    G                 C
Oh, each time you go..I try to pretend.
             Cm    Em
It's over at last..this time the big hurt 
     A   F Bb
will end.

#3.
Bb             B
Now it begins..now that you're gone.
Bb                B
Needles and pins..twilight til dawn.
Bb         G      Cm         Eb    Dm
But if you don't, come back again..I wonder 
Db    Cm               F            Bb
when, oh, when will it end..the big hurt.

OUTRO:
B       Bb    B       Bb    B  Bb
The big hurt..the big hurt........(Fade.)



A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.