The Hammerhead Bar chords by The Waterboys

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

The song riffs around an E E7

[Verse 1}
E
Anto took me down to Whistler's place

It was like a scene from a dream
D             A
Tarantulas, drapes, magic mushroom cakes
    E
Sharks hanging from the beams
E
Dave Ruffian was there with a sad-eyed girl

And the son of Ringo Starr
     D
It was a night like any other, man
    A      A7        A6sus4
At the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead Bar


[Verse 2}
E
Four beer-bellied roadies from Uriah Heep

Were comparing stomach tattoos
D             A
Two had Satan, one had Tam Paton
 E
One had a belt-shaped bruise
   E
In a spotlit corner a famous DJ

Was showing a starlet his scars
       D
Yeah it was all for one and one for all
    A      A7        A6sus4
At the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead, at the Hammerhead Bar


[Verse 3}
E
Three groupies were gargling umbrella drinks

Under the eye of the Ox
  D             A
The first said to the second about the third
     E
"She's as square as a fucking box"
   E
Viv Stanshall turned up on cue

With a pickled skull in a jar
     D
There was always something intriguing to do
    A      A7        A6sus4
At the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead, at the Hammerhead Bar

[Verse 4}
  E
The local MP, a Tory grandee
  E
Sir Bufton Fairbairn-Smart
   D              A
Who dressed like a cross between Robert The Bruce
    E
And Napoleon Bonaparte
   E
Was busy murdering Billy Joel's

"Just The Way You Are"
    D
It was business as usual, sunny boys
    A      A7        A6sus4
At the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead, at the Hammerhead Bar


[Verse 5}
    E
On the stroke of midnight Whistler said
N/C
"Let us now toast the deceased!"
    D          A
And he sank his snout in a stained-glass keg
  E
Of alcohol and yeast
  E
Nine Lithuanian dancing girls

Each sucking a fat cigar
   D
Jitterbugged along the beer-strewn top
    A      A7        A6sus4
Of the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead, of the Hammerhead Bar


[Verse 6}
   E
Those days are gone, those dancing days
  E
Of bacchanal, of drink
D          A
Whistler sleeps with mermaids
E
Groupies are extinct
   E
The famous DJ is doing time

For acts lewd and bizarre
  D
And only dust remains, boys,
    A      A7        A6sus4
Of the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead Bar
         E
Of the Hammerhead Bar
         E
Of the Hammerhead Bar
         E
Of the Hammerhead Bar