Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn tab by The Pogues

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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

Intro:

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Mc[C majorC]Cormack and Richard [DmDm] Tauber
Are [C majorC] singing by the [DmDm] bed.
There's a [C majorC] glass of punch be[DmDm]low your feet
And an [FF] angel at your [C majorC] head.
There's [C majorC] devils on each [DmDm] side of you
With [C majorC] bottles in their [DmDm] hands.
You need [C majorC] one more drop of [DmDm] poison
And you'll [A minorAm] dream of foreign [A minorAm] lands.

When you [FF] pissed yourself in [Bb majorBb] Frankfurt
And got [C majorC] syph down in Co[FF]logne
And you [FF] heard the rattling [Bb majorBb] death trains
As you [C majorC] lay there all a[FF]lone,
Frank [FF] Ryan brought you [C majorC] whiskey
In a [Bb majorBb] brothel in Ma[C majorC]drid
And you [Bb majorBb] decked some fucking [Bb majorBb] blackshirt
Who was [C majorC] cursing all the [C majorC] Yids.
At the [FF] sick bed of Cu[FF]chulainn
We'll [Bb majorBb] kneel and say a [FF] prayer
And the [Bb majorBb] ghosts are rattling [FF] at the door
And the [C majorC] devil's in the [FF] chair.

 [FF] [FF] [Bb majorBb] [C majorC]
 [FF] [FF] [Bb majorBb] [FF]

And [FF] in the Euston [Bb majorBb] Tavern
You [C majorC] screamed it was your [FF] shout
But they [FF] wouldn't give you [Bb majorBb] service
So you [C majorC] kicked the windows [FF] out.
They [FF] took you out in[C majorC]to the street
And [Bb majorBb] kicked you in the [C majorC] brains,
So you [Bb majorBb] walked back in through a [Bb majorBb] bolted door
And [C majorC] did it all a[C majorC]gain.
At the [FF] sick bed of Cu[FF]chulainn
We'll [Bb majorBb] kneel and say a [FF] prayer
And the [Bb majorBb] ghosts are rattling [FF] at the door
And the [C majorC] devil's in the [FF] chair.

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[C majorC]

You re[C majorC]member that foul [DmDm] evening
When you [C majorC] heard the banshees [DmDm] howl,
There was [C majorC] lazy drunken [DmDm] bastards
Singing [FF] 'Billy is in the [C majorC] bowl.'
They [C majorC] took you up to [DmDm] midnight mass
And [C majorC] left you in the [DmDm] lurch
So you [C majorC] dropped a button [DmDm] in the plate
And [A minorAm] spewed up in the [A minorAm] church.

Now you'll [FF] sing a song of [Bb majorBb] liberty
For [C majorC] blacks and paks and [FF] jocks
And they'll [FF] take you from this [Bb majorBb] dump you're in
And [C majorC] stick you in a [FF] box.
Then they'll [FF] take you to Clough[C majorC]prior
And [Bb majorBb] shove you in the [C majorC] ground
But you'll [Bb majorBb] stick your head back [Bb majorBb] out and shout,
"We'll [C majorC] have another [C majorC] round."
At the [FF] graveside of Cu[FF]chulainn
We'll [Bb majorBb] kneel around and [FF] pray
And [Bb majorBb] God is in His [FF] heaven,
And [C majorC] Billy's down by the [FF] bay.

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