Intro
N.C. 
Hey badges tinkle 
N.C. 
T-shirts mingle 
N.C. 
Hey you horror-face! 
 
Verse 1
F#  A 
       I'm a printhead 
F#  B 
      I go to pieces 
F#  B 
       I'm a printhead 
F#  A 
      I go to pieces yeah 
 
Interlude
| B     | B     | 
 
Chorus
B 
End of catch-line 
B                 B 
End of hook-line 
 
Verse 2
F#  A 
      We had a two page 
F#  B 
      It's what we needed 
F#  B 
      I'm an ill head 
F#  A 
      My face increases 
 
Chorus
B 
 How my head increases 
               B 
Real problems, biz 
 
Verse 2
F#  A 
      So how is it, yeah 
F#  B 
      That I've reached here 
F#  B 
      I thought this game 
F#  A 
      Would do me good 
 
Chorus
B                                                 B 
 How could printed vinyl bring you out to here? 
 
Verse 3
F#  A 
      We laughed with them 
F#            B 
  When it was take-the-piss time 
F#  B 
    I'm no egghead 
F#    A                B 
  But I'm an ex-worker man 
 
Chorus
          B 
W.C-hero friend - and not water closet! 
 
Verse 4
F#  A 
      There's a barrier 
F#        B 
  Between writer and singer 
F#   B 
  Uh-huh he's a good man 
F#  A 
  Although a lazy one 
 
Chorus
B 
 The singer is a neurotic drinker 
                                B 
The band little more than a big crashing beat 
                           B 
Instruments collide and we all get drunk 
 
Verse 5
F#  A 
      The last two lines 
F#  B 
      Were a quote, yeah 
F#  B 
      When we read them 
F#  A 
     We went to pieces 
 
Chorus
B 
 We went to pieces, yeah 
                   B 
We went to pieces, yeah 
       B 
Regularly 
 
Verse 6
          F#   A 
One day a week 
                 F#     B 
I'm a printhead, yeah 
               F#    B 
Twenty pence a week 
         F#    A 
Dirty fingers 
 
Interlude
| B     | B     | B     | B     |  x2 
| F#    | A     | F#    | B     | 
| F#    | B     | F#    | A     | 
 
Tag 1
B 
Printhead 
B 
Printhead 
B          B 
Printhead 
 
Tag 2
B 
 With print you substitute an ear 
 
For an extra useless eye