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