[INTRO] C Dm C Dm C Dm F CC Dm C Dm McCormack and Richard Tauber, Are singin' by the bedC Dm F C There's a glass of punch below your feet, And an angel at your headC Dm C Dm There's devils on each side of you, With bottles in their handC Dm Am Am You'll need one more drop of poison, And you'll dream of foreign lands [STRUM CHANGE] (1, 2, 3,)F Bb C F When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt, And got syph down in CologneF Bb C F And you heard the rattlin' death trains, As you lay there all aloneF F Bb F Frank Ryan brought you whiskey, In a brothel in MadridBb Bb F C And you decked some fuckin' blackshirt, That was cursing all the yidsF F Bb F At the sick bed of Cuchulainn, We'll kneel and say a prayerBb F C F And the ghosts are rattlin' at the door, And the Devil's in the chair, Wheew[INST] F F Bb C F F Bb FF Bb C F And, In the Euston Tavern, You screamed it was your shoutF Bb C F But they wouldn't give you service, So you kicked the windows outF F Bb F They took you out into the street, Kicked you in the brainsBb Bb F C So you walked back in through a bolted door, And did it all againF F Bb F At the sick bed of Cuchulainn, We'll kneel and say a prayerBb F C F And the ghosts are rattlin' at the door, And the Devil's in the chair, Hey *STRUM* [INST] F F Bb C F F Bb C *CHANGE*F F Bb C F F Bb F C CC Dm C Dm You remember that foul evening, When you heard the Banshees howlC Dm F C There were lazy drunken bastards singin', Billy In The bowlC Dm C Dm They took you up to midnight mass, And left you in the lurchC Dm Am Am So you dropped a button in the plate, And spewed up in the church [STRUM CHANGE] (1, 2, 3,)F Bb C F Now, You'll sing a sing of liberty, For blacks and paks and jocksF Bb C F And they'll take you from this dump you're in, And stick you in a boxF F Bb F Then they'll take you to Cloughprior, And shove you in the groundBb Bb F C But you'll stick your head back out and shout, We'll have another roundF F Bb F At the graveside of Cuchullainn, We'll kneel around and prayBb F C F And God is in his Heaven, And Billy's down by the bay, Whoow
The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
The Pogues
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