Upcoming Concerts for The Pogues
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Shane MacGowan
Vocals
James Fearnley
Accordion
Jem Finer
Banjo
Cait O'Riordan
Bass Guitar
Andrew Ranken
Drums
Henry Benagh
Fiddle
Dick Cuthell
French Horn
Philip Chevron
Guitar
Spider Stacy
Tin Whistle
Tome Keane
Uilleann Pipes
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Shane MacGowan
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Nick Robbins
Engineer
Paul Scully
Engineer
Elvis Costello
Producer
Lyrics
McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed
There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head
There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands
You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands
(One, two, three, four)
When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in Cologne
And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone
Frank Ryan bought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid
And you decked some fucking black shirt who was cursing all the Yids
At the sick bed of Cúchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
But the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair, whoa!
Well, in the Euston Tavern you screamed it was your shout
But they wouldn't give you service so you kicked the windows out
They took you out into the street, kicked you in the brains
So you walked back in through a bolted door and did it all again
At the sick bed of Cúchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair, hey
You remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl
There was lazy drunken bastards singing Billy in the bowl
They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch
So, you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church
Now you'll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks
And they'll take you from this dump you're in and stick you in a box
Then they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground
But you'll stick your head back out and shout "We'll have another round"
At the graveside of Cúchulainn we'll kneel around and pray
And God is in his Heaven and Billy's down by the bay (yah!)
Writer(s): Shane Patrick Lysaght Macgowan
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