The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn chords by The Pogues
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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
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you'll dream of foreign lands
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Verse 2
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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
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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
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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
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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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The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn
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