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The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn chords by
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Key: F major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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McCormack and Richard
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Tauber are singing by the bed
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There's a glass of punch be low your feet
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and an angel at your head
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There's devils on each side of you
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with bottles in their hands
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You need one more drop of poison and
F#m
F#m
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you'll dream of foreign lands
Verse 2
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F#m
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When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt
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and got syph down in cologne
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And you heard the rattling death
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trains as you lay there all alone

Frank Ryan brought you whiskey
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in a brothel in Madrid
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And you decked some fucking
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blackshirt who was cursing all the yids
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At the sick bed of Cuchulainn
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we'll kneel and say a prayer
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And the ghosts are rattling at the door and
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the devil's in the chair
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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And in the Euston tavern you
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screamed it was your shout
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But they wouldn't give you service so
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you kicked the windows out

They took you out into the street
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and kicked you in the brains
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So you walked back in through a bolted
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door and did it all again
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At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll
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kneel and say a prayer
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And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's
Interlude 2

in the chair
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Verse 4
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You remember that foul evening when
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you heard the banshees howl
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There was lousy drunken bastards
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singing billy is in the bowl
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They took you up to midnight mass
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an d left you in the lurch
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So you dropped a button in the plate
F#m
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and spewed up in the church
Verse 5
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Now you'll sing a song of liberty for
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blacks and paks and jocks
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And they'll take you from this dump you're
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in and stick you in a box
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Then they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove
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you in the ground
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But you'll stick your head back out
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and shout "We'll have another round"
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At the graveside of Cuchulainn
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we'll kneel around and pray
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And god is in his heaven,
Outro 1

and billy's down by the bay
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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • A

  • Bm

    2

  • D

  • F#m

    2

  • G

Capo: 3

Transpose: 0

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Frequently asked questions

The original key of The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn by The Pogues is F major.

The primary chords used in The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn are C, Dm, F, Am, Bb.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 3 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like C, Dm, F, Am, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn is approximately 140 beats per minute.

You can easily change the key of The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn using our Transpose button located in the toolbar. This will automatically update all chord diagrams on the page to match your new key.

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