[ti:The Sickbed of Cuchulainn (Live At The Brixton Academy 2001)] [ar:The Pogues] [al:The Ultimate Collection (with Bonus disc Live At The Brixton Academy)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Sickbed of Cuchulainn (Live At The Brixton Academy 2001) - The Pogues [00:30.69]McCormack and richard tauber [00:33.47]Are singing by the bed [00:35.69]There's a glass of punch below your feet [00:39.12]And an angel at your head [00:41.64]There's devils on each side of you [00:44.53]With bottles in their hands [00:47.17]You need one more drop of poison [00:49.99]And you'll dream of foreign lands [00:55.00]When you pissed yourself in frankfurt [00:56.84]And got syph down in cologne [00:58.50]And you heard the rattling death [00:59.50]Trains as you lay there all alone [01:01.51]Frank Ryan brought you whiskey [01:02.99]In a brothel in Madrid [01:04.79]And you decked some f**king blackshirt [01:06.37]Who was cursing all the yids [01:07.87]At the sick bed of cuchulainn [01:09.24]We'll kneel and say a prayer [01:10.91]And the ghosts are rattling at the door [01:12.39]And the devil's in the chair [01:13.49]Yeah [01:20.48]And in the euston tavern [01:21.87]You screamed it was your shout [01:23.42]But they wouldn't give you service [01:24.82]So you kicked the windows out [01:26.50]They took you out into the street [01:28.58]And kicked you in the brains [01:29.93]So you walked back in through a bolted [01:31.06]Door and did it all again [01:32.86]At the sick bed of cuchulainn [01:34.42]We'll kneel and say a prayer [01:36.14]And the ghosts are rattling at the [01:37.47]Door and the devil's in the chair [01:38.80]Yeah [01:52.78]You remember that foul evening [01:55.16]When you heard the banshees howl [01:58.82]There was lousy drunken bastards [02:01.94]Singing billy is in the bowl [02:05.79]They took you up to midnight mass [02:08.34]And left you in the lurch [02:10.87]So you dropped a button [02:12.96]In the plate and [02:14.46]Spewed up in the church [02:18.94]Now you'll sing a song of liberty [02:20.27]For blacks and paks and jocks [02:21.38]And they'll take you from this dump [02:23.24]You're in and stick you in a box [02:25.08]Then they'll take you to cloughprior [02:26.88]And shove you in the ground [02:28.25]But you'll stick your head back out [02:29.55]And shout we'll have another round [02:31.33]At the graveside of cuchulainn [02:32.89]We'll kneel around and pray [02:34.53]And god is in his heaven [02:36.04]And billy's down by the bay [02:37.32]Yeah