The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn (Live)-The Pogues

[ti:The Sickbed Of Cuchulainn] [ar:The Pogues] [al:Streams Of Whiskey - Live In L] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn (Live) - The Pogues [00:33.19]McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed [00:40.10]There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head [00:46.93] [00:47.57]There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands [00:54.34] [00:55.14]You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands [01:04.28] [01:05.08]When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in Cologne [01:07.61]And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone [01:10.92]Frank Ryan brought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid [01:14.20]And you decked some f**king blackshirt who was cursing all the Yids [01:17.39] [01:18.02]At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer [01:21.04]And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair [01:24.36] [01:30.82]And in the Euston Tavern you screamed it was your shout [01:34.02]But they wouldn't give you service so you kicked the windows out [01:36.97]They took you out into the street and kicked you in the brains [01:40.23]So you walked back in through a bolted door and did it all again [01:43.43]At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer [01:46.42]And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair [01:49.50] [02:04.08]You remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl [02:09.72] [02:10.91]There was lazy drunken bastards singing Billy is in the bowl [02:17.57] [02:18.70]They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch [02:25.04] [02:25.91]So you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church [02:32.99] [02:34.87]Now you'll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks [02:38.95]And they'll take you from this dump you're in and stick you in a box [02:42.34]Then they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground [02:46.53]But you'll stick your head back out and shout "we'll have another round" [02:48.33]At the graveside of Cuchulainn we'll kneel around and pray [02:51.15]And God is in His heaven and Billy's down by the bay