Lucy Wainwright Roche - Accident And Emergency

      [Intro]
G  D  C  G    D  C  G

[Verse]
           D          C    G
Quarter to ten at the A & E
             D                  C          G
Where nobody thought they would need to be
         D            C       G
Saturday night in the old country
               D          C     G
And we come to you on our knees

[Chorus]
D       Em       C         G    D
Take us in, will you, will you?
         Em       C           G    D
with the unlucky, the drunken too
        Em       C         G  D Em  C  G  D
Take us in, will you, will you____?

[Verse]
  G           D          C            G
A blow to the head and a break to the foot
               D                C  G
And a party of revellers turned meaner
           D            C         G
A woman is red-eyed and reading a book
              D            C    G
With a child asleep at her feet

[Chorus]
D        Em         C       G     D
Have you been here, waiting long?
         Em           C              G      D
With the others whose evening’s gone wrong
         Em         C       G  D Em  C  G  D
Have you been here, waiting long____?

[Verse]
G          D             C G
Quarter to three and the NHS
              D         C         G
Has given our worries a bed to rest
            D            C          G
Fluorescent lights and a handful of tests
                       D            C   G
A quick smile from the nurse on her way

[Chorus]
D      Em        C        G    D
Smile again, can you, can you?
      Em         C                  G        D
after all of the things you’ve been through
       Em        C        G  D Em  C  G  D
Smile again, can you, can you____?

[Bridge]
  G     C    G      D       Em    C           G        D
A phone call breaks through still night, "I’m sorry to wake you
G     C  G     D    Em     C      G   D
We’re on floor two, Fulham Palace Avenue"

[Verse]
G          D             C          G
Quarter to eight, I walk out on the street
                D          C    G
And Hammersmith Station’s alive with
           D               C          G
Sunday day-shoppers who’ve risen from sleep
                 D          C    G
Just sure that today will arrive

[Chorus]
D         Em       C          G       D
Take good care, my friend, my friend
           Em     C          G     D
If there’s ever a hand I can lend
          Em       C          G   D  Em  C  G  D
Take good care, my friend, my friend____

[Verse]
           D          C    G
Quarter to ten at the A & E
             D                  C          G
Where nobody thought they would need to be
         D            C       G
Saturday night in the old country
               D          C     G
And we come to you on our knees