Pogue ma mahon.

[Starry Messenger]

Anyone in the mood for a little music?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1EVrKDkyk4

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

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 f*cking blackshirt who was cursing 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 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

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[dbt]

1. The Pogues Forever!

First time I heard the fiddle and Uillean pipes in "Dirty Old Town," it stood the hair up on the back of my neck and down both arms. Gimme "If I Should Fall From Grace With God," "Turkish Song Of The Damned," "Rain Street," "Sunny Side Of The Street" and DO let me hear Cait O'Riordan singing "I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day" now and again. BTW, it AIN'T Christmas without "Fairytale Of New York!"

Gwan ye boys!

:beer:

[Symarip]

2. You're missing the last part of the song

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 well have another round
At the graveside of cuchulainn well kneel around and pray
And God is in his heaven, and billy's down by the bay

[Starry Messenger]

4. That's weird.

Thanks for putting it in. :thumbsup: I was cutting and pasting with one eye open. :beer:

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Watch your language!

:D I remember the first time I heard of the Pogues... loved the band name long before I heard the music.