[ti:The Sicked Bed Of Cuchulainn] [ar:The Pogues] [al:The Pogues In Paris - 30th Ann] [offset:0] [00:01.56]The Sicked Bed Of Cuchulainn—The Pogues [00:32.01]McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed [00:36.99]There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head [00:41.99] [00:42.55]There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands [00:48.12]You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands [00:54.44] [00:56.37]When you pissed yourself Frankfurt in and got down syph in cologne [00:59.94]And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone [01:03.03]Frank Ryan brought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid [01:06.34]And you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the yids [01:09.66]At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer [01:12.97]And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair [01:16.86] [01:23.17]And in the Euston tavern you screamed it was your shout [01:26.30]But they wouldn't give you service so you kicked the windows out [01:29.61]They took you out into the street and kicked you in the brains [01:33.11]So you walked back in through a bolted door and did it all again [01:36.44]At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer [01:39.10]And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair [01:43.47] [01:57.50]You remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl [02:03.10] [02:03.91]There was lousy drunken bastards singing billy is in the bowl [02:10.50]They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch [02:16.27]So you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church [02:22.48] [02:25.67]Now you'll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks [02:28.80]And they'll take you from this dump you're in and stick you in a box [02:32.20]Then they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground [02:35.48]But you'll stick your head back out and shout "We'll have another round" [02:38.84]At the graveside of Cuchulainn we'll kneel around and pray [02:41.92]And god is in his heaven, and billy's down by the bay