The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn-The Pogues

[ti:The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn] [ar:The Pogues] [al:Rum Sodomy & The Lash] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn - The Pogues [00:06.67]Written by：Shane Macgowan [00:13.34]McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed [00:17.77] [00:18.83]There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head [00:23.63] [00:24.57]There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands [00:29.98]You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands [00:35.23] [00:37.53]When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in Cologne [00:41.14]And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone [00:43.96] [00:44.52]Frank Ryan brought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid [00:47.32] [00:47.94]And you decked some f**king blackshirt who was cursing all the Yids [00:51.37]At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer [00:54.69]And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair [00:57.54] [01:04.91]And in the Euston Tavern you screamed it was your shout [01:08.30]But they wouldn't give you service so you kicked the windows out [01:11.61]They took you out into the street and kicked you in the brains [01:15.10]So you walked back in through a bolted door and did it all again [01:18.60]At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer [01:21.97]And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair [01:25.13] [01:46.03]You remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl [01:52.08]There was lazy drunken bastards singing Billy is in the bowl [01:56.82] [01:57.70]They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch [02:02.06] [02:02.94]So you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church [02:08.04] [02:10.42]Now you'll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks [02:14.06]And they'll take you from this dump you're in and stick you in a box [02:17.53]Then they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground [02:20.80]But you'll stick your head back out and shout "we'll have another round" [02:24.38]At the graveside of Cuchulainn we'll kneel around and pray [02:27.76]And God is in His heaven and Billy's down by the bay