Del Shannon – The Big Hurt (Guitar)

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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.