The Cockroaches - Fingertips (Live on The Factory 1988)

Paul Field / The Cockroaches perform 'Fingertips' live on 'The Factory' in 1988.
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This is the title song of The Cockroaches second album and while we did other clips for the album, there wasn’t a clip for this song. So, this is the ONLY footage of this song in existence! Woah! You can see we enjoyed performing it as well. As for the introduction, the host asked me how we’d like to be introduced and I jokingly said, “the greatest rock n roll band in the history of Australia” and that’s essentially what he said, ha!
LYRICS:
Help me, I'm hanging by my fingertips
Ah, hey, hey
Hanging by my fingertips
It’s down at the wire at the business end
I'm snicking and popping everything they send
Run rate 6, 7, 8 and 9
That's on now ’cause a-I'm out of time
Help me, I'm hanging by my fingertips (Hey, hey, fingertips)
Hey, hey, hanging by my fingertips (Hey, hey, fingertips)
There goes the bell for round 10
And I'm swinging low
There's blood on my nose and all over the front row
The last round 6, 7, 8, 9
Swing me round an uppercut and get me back on time
Help me, I'm hanging by my fingertips (Hey, hey, fingertips)
Hey, hey, hanging by my fingertips (Hey, hey, fingertips)
It's a two-mile slog in a ten-mile hit
I’m sweating and droppin’ my bundle in bed
I see the tape, the line, and I won't quit
Hold me up somebody won’t you get me across it.
Help me, I'm hanging by my fingertips (Hey, hey, fingertips)
Hey, hey, hanging by my fingertips (Hey, hey, fingertips)
By my fingertips (Hey, fingertips)
By my fingertips (Hey, fingertips)
By my fingertips (Hey, fingertips)
By my fingertips (Hey, fingertips)
By my fingertips
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[@kimgibson3417]

🎉

[@johncanavan599]

Great song great CD great band one of the best

[@paulfieldofficial2511]

Thanks mate

[@bigal7876]

Fingertips, love that one. 😎🎸🎶👍

[@paulfieldofficial2511]

Another good John Field tune

[@brodjefferson3513]

That's really interesting, as The Cockroaches were mostly a live band I would have assumed that all their songs were written for live. Did this one never make the old setlist?

[@paulfieldofficial2511]

Yes mate, we played this one in live shows back in the day

[@summerhetherton2478]

The wiggles jayde