"
Pick Up the Pieces" is a 1974 song by the
Average White Band from their second album,
AWB. On the single, songwriting credit was given to founding member and saxophonist
Roger Ball and guitarist
Hamish Stuart individually and the entire band collectively. It is essentially an
instrumental, apart from the song's title being shouted at several points in the song. The song features an intro 4 measures of Csus7#9, sus 4 (C F Bb Eb) afterwards in the theme 8 measures of Fm7 (F Ab C Eb), 2 measures of Bb7 (Bb D F Ab), 4 measures of Fm7.