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McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed
There's a gla*s 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

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 brought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid
And you decked some f**king blackshirt who was curing all the Yids
At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair

And 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 and kicked you in the brains
So you walked back in through a bolted door and did it all again
At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair

You remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl
There was lousy drunken bastards singing Billy is in the bowl
They took you up to midnight ma*s 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 Cuchulainn we'll kneel around and pray
And God is in His heaven, and Billy's down by the bay



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The Pogues - Original Album Series:Hell's Ditch/If I Should Fall From Grace With God/Peace And Love/Red Roses For Me/Rum,Sodomy & The Lash [Box set, Import]

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  2. The Battle Of Brisbane
  3. The Auid Triangle
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  5. Boys From The County Hell
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  7. Dark Streets Of London
  8. Streams Of Whiskey
  9. Poor Daddy
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  11. Greenland Whale Fisheries
  12. Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go
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  15. The Old Main Drag
  16. Wild Cats Of Kilkenny
  17. I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
  18. A Pair Of Brown Eyes
  19. Sally Maclennane
  20. A Pistol For Paddy Garcia
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  24. Billy's Bone
  25. The Gentelman Soldier
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  27. If I Should Fall From Grace With God
  28. Turkish Song Of The Damned
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  33. South Australia
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  37. Lullaby Of Landon
  38. The Battle March Medley
  39. Sit Down By The Fire
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  41. Worms
  42. Gridlock
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  44. Young Ned Of The Hill
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  48. Down All The Days
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