Key: F
Introduction: C Dm C Dm C Dm F C
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 F)
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.
F Bb C)
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.
F Bb C)