The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn chords by The Pogues
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Intro 1
(A major) (B minor) (A major) (B minor) (A major) (B minor) (D major)
(A major)
Verse 1
McCormack and Richard (B minor)
Tauber are singing (A major) by the (B minor) bed
(A major) There's a glass of punch (B minor) be low your feet
and an angel (D major) at your head (A major)
There's devils on each (B minor) side of you
with (A major) bottles in their (B minor) hands
You need one (A major) more drop (B minor) of poison and
you'll (F sharp minor) dream of foreign lands
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Verse 2
(F sharp minor)
When you (D major) pissed yourself in (G major) Frankfurt
and got (A major) syph down in cologne (D major)
And you heard the rattling (G major) death
trains as you lay (A major) there (D major) all alone
Frank Ryan brought you whiskey
in a brothel (G major) (D major) in Madrid
And you (G major) decked some fucking
(D major) blackshirt who was cursing (A major) all the yids
At the (D major) sick bed of Cuchulainn
we'll (G major) kneel and (D major) say a prayer
And the (G major) ghosts are (D major) rattling at the door and
the (A major) devil's in the chair
Interlude 1
(D major) (G major) (A major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
Verse 3
And in the Euston (D major) tavern you
screamed (A major) it was your shout (D major)
But they wouldn't give you ser (G major) vice so
you (A major) kicked the win (D major) dows out
They took you out into the street
and (G major) kicked you (D major) in the brains
So you (G major) walked back in through a bolted
(D major) door and did it all again (A major)
At the sick (D major) bed of Cuchulainn we'll
(G major) kneel and say (D major) a prayer
And the (G major) ghosts are rattling (D major) at the door and the (A major) devil's
Interlude 2
in the chair
(D major) (G major) (A major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
(A major) (D major) (G major) (D major) (A major) (D major) (G major)
(D major) (A major)
Verse 4
You remember (A major) that foul (B minor) evening when
(A major) you heard the banshees (B minor) howl
There was (A major) lousy drunk (B minor) en bastards
singing billy (D major) is in the bowl (A major)
They took you up to midnight (B minor) mass
(A major) an d left you in the lurch (B minor)
So you (A major) dropped a button (B minor) in the plate
and spewed (F sharp minor) up in the church
Verse 5
(F sharp minor)
Now you'll (D major) sing a song of (G major) liberty for
(A major) blacks and paks and (D major) jocks
And they'll take you from this (G major) dump you're
in and (A major) stick you (D major) in a box
Then they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove (G major)
you (D major) in the ground
But you'll (G major) stick your head back out
and shout (D major) "We'll have another round" (A major)
(D major) At the graveside of Cuchulainn
we'll kneel around (G major) and (D major) pray
And (G major) god is (D major) in his heaven,
Outro 1
and billy's down by the bay
(D major) (G major) (A major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
(G major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
(G major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
(G major)
The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn
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