Chords
Sick Bed Of Cachulainn

Key: F

Introduction:  C   Dm   C   Dm   C   Dm   F   C  

difficulty
very easy |||||
     C                                     Dm 
Mc Cormack and Richard Tauber
       C                           Dm 
Are singing by the bed.
                   C                                 Dm 
There's a glass of punch below your feet
             F                         C 
And an angel at your head.
There's (C) devils on each (Dm) side of you
                 C                               Dm 
You need one more drop of poison
 Am 
And you'll dream of foreign lands.
                 F                                   Bb 
When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt
               C                             F 
And got syph down in Cologne
               F                                   Bb 
And you heard the rattling death trains
             C                             F 
As you lay there all alone,
           F                               C 
Frank Ryan brought you whiskey
         Bb                       C 
In a brothel in Madrid
 Bb 
And you decked some fucking blackshirt
 C 
Who was cursing all the Yids.
 F 
At the sick bed of Cuchulainn
           Bb                           F 
We'll kneel and say a prayer
               Bb                                   F 
And the ghosts are rattling at the door
               C                           F 
And the devil's in the chair.

       F                         Bb 
And in the Euston Tavern
       C                                       F 
You screamed it was your shout
                 F                                 Bb 
But they wouldn't give you service
             C                                   F 
So you kicked the windows out.
         F                             C 
They took you out into the street
       Bb                               C 
And kicked you in the brains,
 Bb 
So you walked back in through a bolted door
 C 
And did it all again.
 F 
At the sick bed of Cuchulainn
           Bb                           F 
We'll kneel and say a prayer
               Bb                                   F 
And the ghosts are rattling at the door
               C                           F 
And the devil's in the chair.

             C                               Dm 
You're member that foul evening
                 C                                   Dm 
When you heard the banshees howl,
                   C                       Dm 
There was lazy drunken bastards
                 F                             C 
Singing 'Billy is in the bowl.'
         C                           Dm 
They took you up to midnight mass
       C                             Dm 
And left you in the lurch
             C                               Dm 
So you dropped a button in the plate
 Am 
And spewed up in the church.
                       F                           Bb 
Now you'll sing a song of liberty
         C                                   F 
For blacks and paks and jocks
                       F                                   Bb 
And they'll take you from this dump you're in
         C                           F 
And stick you in a box.
                         F                                   C 
Then they'll take you to Cloughprior
         Bb                               C 
And shove you in the ground
 Bb 
But you'll stick your head back out and shout,
 C 
"We'll have another round."
 F 
At the graveside of Cuchulainn
             Bb                           F 
We'll kneel around and pray
         Bb                       F 
And God is in His heaven,
       C                                       F 
And Billy's down by the bay.