A Drinking Song chords by The Divine Comedy

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
A augmentedA   E minorEm   D MajorD  DmDm
F#dimF#dim Amaj7Amaj7 D MajorD  E MajorE

Verse 1:
A augmentedA      E minorEm    D MajorD     DmDm
Back at the house, a bottle is found
  F#dimF#dim   Amaj7Amaj7   D MajorD       E MajorE
And opened in honour of those who have drowned
   BdimBdim    E minorEm   D MajorD       G+G
While we who have not are stricken with guilt
  FF     Bb6Bb6     E MajorE
And dutifully see that not one drop is spilt
   A augmentedA      E minorEm     D MajorD      DmDm
We're drinking to life we're drinking to death
   F#dimF#dim     Amaj7Amaj7    D MajorD     E MajorE
We're drinking 'til none of our livers are left
   BdimBdim    E minorEm     D MajorD     G+G
We're winding our way down to the spirit store
   FF       Bb6Bb6    E MajorE    A augmentedA   E minorEm D MajorD DmDm
We'll drink till we just can't drink anymore

Refrain:
F#dimF#dim Amaj7Amaj7 D MajorD E MajorE  A augmentedA  E minorEm D MajorD DmDm
Raise your  glasses high,
F#dimF#dim E MajorE  D MajorD E MajorE  A augmentedA
drink the cellar dry

Verse 2:
   A augmentedA     E minorEm    D MajorD     DmDm
Well, bloody my nose and blacken my eye
   F#dimF#dim      Amaj7Amaj7  D MajorD      E MajorE
If it ain't some young Turk in search of a fight
  BdimBdim     E minorEm    D MajorD      G+G
And Chanticleer's chest is sagging with pride
  FF     Bb6Bb6    E MajorE
For honour has yet to be satisfied
   A augmentedA     E minorEm     D MajorD     DmDm
Well, Heaven be thanked we live in an age
   F#dimF#dim    Amaj7Amaj7   D MajorD     E MajorE
When no man need bother except on the stage
   BdimBdim    E minorEm      D MajorD     G+G
With "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"
  FF     Bb6Bb6  G#G#
And definitely not tonight

Bridge:
           F minorFm
I can still remember
           C#C#
When I was just a kid
                 Eb MajorEb
I was free to do what I wanted to
           C minorCm
But I never, ever did
                    C#C#
So now with years of discretion reached
         C#C#
May we not forget
    Bb majorBb
"Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité"
      Eb MajorEb
For there's life in the Old World yet!
     G#G#      F minorFm
There'll always be an England
  C#C#      Eb MajorEb
An Ireland and a France
 C minorCm        C#C#
A augmentedA Liechtenstein and Finland
  Bb majorBb      E MajorE  Eb MajorEb
And we have only one chance

Pre-Chorus:
G#G#
Earnest young man with an unhealthy tan
    F minorFm
Puts a drink in my hand and says "I understand
     C#C#
You're in search of the place to continue the chase
    Eb MajorEb
Of the heavenly taste I suggest in that case that you
C minorCm
All come with me to my place by the sea
     C#C#
Where the glasses shall be overflowing with free
  Bb majorBb
Alcoholic delights and free love if you like
     E MajorE
For what point has this life If you can't realise
   A augmentedA    E minorEm D MajorD DmDm
Your dreams?"

Refrain:
  F#dimF#dim Amaj7Amaj7 D MajorD E MajorE  A augmentedA  E minorEm D MajorD DmDm
Oh, raise your  glasses high
  F#dimF#dim Amaj7Amaj7  D MajorD  E MajorE
And drink the   town dry

Verse 3:
   A augmentedA    E minorEm    D MajorD       DmDm
We'll drink beyond the boundaries of sense
   F#dimF#dim     Amaj7Amaj7    D MajorD      E MajorE
We'll drink 'til we start to see lovely pink elephants
BdimBdim    E minorEm  D MajorD     G+G
Inside our heads inside our beds
FF     Bb6Bb6      E MajorE
Inside the threads of our pyjama legs
     A augmentedA       E minorEm   D MajorD      DmDm
So don't shoot til you see the reds of our eyes
    F#dimF#dim  Amaj7Amaj7   D MajorD     E MajorE
And an army of elephants marching behind
     BdimBdim   E minorEm      D MajorD      G+G
From the day I was born till the night I will die
    FF      Bb6Bb6     E MajorE   A augmentedA
All my lovers will be pink and elephantine