The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn-The Pogues

[ti:The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn] [ar:The Pogues] [al:Rum Sodomy & The Lash [Expanded]] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn - The Pogues [00:13.62]McCormack and Richard [00:14.32]Tauber are singing by the bed [00:17.75] [00:18.97]There's a glass of punch [00:20.47]Below your feet [00:21.28] [00:21.97]And an angel at your head [00:23.49] [00:24.62]There's devils on each [00:25.51]Side of you with bottles in their hands [00:29.17] [00:30.14]You need one more drop of poison [00:31.89]And you'll dream of foreign lands [00:34.82] [00:38.04]When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt [00:39.39]And got syph down in Cologne [00:40.91]And you heard the rattling death [00:42.06]Trains as you lay there all alone [00:43.44] [00:44.39]Frank Ryan brought you whiskey [00:45.92]In a brothel in Madrid [00:47.55] [00:48.30]And you decked some f**king [00:49.49]Blackshirt who was cursing all the Yids [00:51.30]At the sick bed of Cuchulainn [00:53.03]We'll kneel and say a prayer [00:54.50]And the ghosts are rattling [00:55.97]At the door and the devil's in the chair [00:57.79] [01:05.68]And in the Euston Tavern [01:06.65]You screamed it was your shout [01:08.32]But they wouldn't give you service [01:10.25]So you kicked the windows out [01:11.96]They took you out into the street [01:13.43]And kicked you in the brains [01:15.16]So you walked back in through a bolted [01:16.95]Door and did it all again [01:18.76]At the sick bed of Cuchulainn [01:20.05]We'll kneel and say a prayer [01:22.00]And the ghosts are rattling at the door [01:24.14]And the devil's in the chair [01:25.44] [01:46.24]You remember that foul evening [01:48.11] [01:49.43]When you heard the banshees howl [01:51.12] [01:52.30]There was lazy drunken bastards [01:54.16]Singing Billy is in the bowl [01:56.70] [01:58.11]They took you up to midnight mass [02:00.07] [02:00.91]And left you in the lurch [02:02.37] [02:03.17]So you dropped a button in the plate [02:05.21] [02:06.03]And spewed up in the church [02:07.61] [02:10.74]Now you'll sing a song of liberty [02:12.21]For blacks and paks and jocks [02:13.98]And they'll take you from this dump [02:15.58]You're in and stick you in a box [02:17.72]Then they'll take you to Cloughprior [02:19.05]And shove you in the ground [02:20.84]But you'll stick your head back out [02:22.40]And shout we'll have another round [02:24.34]At the graveside of Cuchulainn [02:26.15]We'll kneel around and pray [02:27.85]And God is in His heaven [02:29.67]And Billy's down by the bay