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***The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn - by Shane MacGowan
from the album "Rum Sodomy & The Lash"
The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn - as perfomed by The Pogues
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McCCormack and Richard Dm Tauber
Are C singing by the Dm bed.
There's a C glass of punch beDmlow your feet
And an F angel at your C head.
There's C devils on each Dm side of you
With C bottles in their Dm hands.
You need C one more drop of Dm poison
And you'll Am dream of foreign Am lands.
When you F pissed yourself in Bb Frankfurt
And got C syph down in CoFlogne
And you F heard the rattling Bb death trains
As you C lay there all aFlone,
Frank F Ryan brought you C whiskey
In a Bb brothel in MaCdrid
And you Bb decked some fucking Bb blackshirt
Who was C cursing all the C Yids.
At the F sick bed of CuFchulainn
We'll Bb kneel and say a F prayer
And the Bb ghosts are rattling F at the door
And the C devil's in the F chair.
F F Bb C
F F Bb F
And F in the Euston Bb Tavern
You C screamed it was your F shout
But they F wouldn't give you Bb service
So you C kicked the windows F out.
They F took you out inCto the street
And Bb kicked you in the C brains,
So you Bb walked back in through a Bb bolted door
And C did it all aCgain.
At the F sick bed of CuFchulainn
We'll Bb kneel and say a F prayer
And the Bb ghosts are rattling F at the door
And the C devil's in the F chair.
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You reCmember that foul Dm evening
When you C heard the banshees Dm howl,
There was C lazy drunken Dm bastards
Singing F 'Billy is in the C bowl.'
They C took you up to Dm midnight mass
And C left you in the Dm lurch
So you C dropped a button Dm in the plate
And Am spewed up in the Am church.
Now you'll F sing a song of Bb liberty
For C blacks and paks and F jocks
And they'll F take you from this Bb dump you're in
And C stick you in a F box.
Then they'll F take you to CloughCprior
And Bb shove you in the C ground
But you'll Bb stick your head back Bb out and shout,
"We'll C have another C round."
At the F graveside of CuFchulainn
We'll Bb kneel around and F pray
And Bb God is in His F heaven,
And C Billy's down by the F bay.
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