The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn chords by The Pogues

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Novice

THE SICK BED OF CUCHULAINN

 INTRO:  C  Dm  C  Dm   C  Dm  F  C

   C          Dm      C      Dm
 McCormack and Richard Tauber, Are singin' by the bed
       C       Dm            F       C
 There's a glass of punch below your feet, And an angel at your head
      C      Dm          C       Dm
 There's devils on each side of you, With bottles in their hand
        C         Dm         Am        Am
 You'll need one more drop of poison, And you'll dream of foreign lands

 *STRUM CHANGE*
       F          Bb        C       F
 When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt, And got syph down in Cologne
      F         Bb          C       F
 And you heard the rattlin' death trains, As you lay there all alone
     F         F      Bb     F
 Frank Ryan brought you whiskey, In a brothel in Madrid
      Bb          Bb          F       C
 And you decked some fuckin' blackshirt, That was cursing all the yids

     F       F        Bb        F
 At the sick bed of Cuchulainn, We'll kneel and say a prayer
      Bb        F            C       F
 And the ghosts are rattlin' at the door, And the Devil's in the chair, Wheew


 INST:  F  F  Bb  C    F  F  Bb  F

    F        Bb      C          F
 And, In the Euston Tavern, You screamed it was your shout
       F         Bb       C         F
 But they wouldn't give you service, So you kicked the windows out
    F      F         Bb        F
 They took you out into the street, Kicked you in the brains
      Bb            Bb       F      C
 So you walked back in through a bolted door, And did it all again

     F       F        Bb        F
 At the sick bed of Cuchulainn, We'll kneel and say a prayer
      Bb        F           C       F
 And the ghosts are rattlin' at the door, And the Devil's in the chair, Hey
                        *STRUM*
                        *CHANGE*
 INST:  F  F  Bb  C    F  F  Bb  F   C

     C         Dm         C        Dm
 You remember that foul evening, When you heard the Banshees howl
       C       Dm         F      C
 There were lazy drunked bastards singin', Billy in the bowl
    C        Dm         C        Dm
 They took you up to midnight mass, And left you in the lurch
      C       Dm         Am        Am
 So you dropped a button in the plate, And spewed up in the church

 *STRUM CHANGE*
        F        Bb      C          F
 Now, You'll sing a sing of liberty, For blacks and paks and jocks
        F         Bb           C       F
 And they'll take you from this dump you're in,  And stick you in a box
        F       F       Bb         F
 Then they'll take you to Cloughprior, And shove you in the ground
       Bb         Bb           F       C
 But you'll stick your head back out and shout, We'll have another round

       F       F        Bb        F
 At the graveside of Cuchullainn, We'll kneel around and pray
   Bb       F      C         F
 And God is in his Heaven, And Billy's down by the bay, Whoow

 INST:  F  F  Bb  C     F  F  Bb  C   TO FADE