The shaman came a calling He was howling at the moon He offered me a vision On the end of a silver spoon He said he’d give me dreams That all were in his powers If only i would follow him The universe was ours Walked a thin white line to the coffin club Downstairs […]
Too many sad days Too many tuesday mornings I thought of you today I wished it was yesterday morning I thought of you today I dreamt you were dressed in mourning But i knew that you With your heart beating And your eyes shining Would be dreaming of me Lying with you On a tuesday […]
I love you baby since we were at school I didn’t show it i was a fool You were burning i was cold as ice And baby now i realize Oh yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah (yeah yeah yeah yeah) Yeah yeah yeah yeah (yeah yeah yeah yeah) Yeah yeah yeah yeah (yeah yeah yeah […]
On the fourth of july, 1806 We set sail from the sweet cove of cork We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks For the grand city hall in new york ’twas a wonderful craft She was rigged fore and aft And oh, how the wild wind drove her She stood several blasts She […]
the body of an american The cadillac stood by the house And the yanks they were within And the tinker boys they hissed advice ‘hot-wire her with a pin’ We turned and shook as we had a look In the room where the dead men lay So big jim dwyer made his last trip To […]
The devil moon took me through the alley Down by the kardomah and the centrale To the mews running through the backstreets Where the blacks sold fire and sleep The devil moon took me out of soho Up to camden where the cold north winds blow Sucked along by a winter shower To stand beside […]
I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in memphis, She tried to take me upstairs for a ride. She had to heave me right across her shoulder, Cause i just can’t seem to drink you off my mind. It’s the honky tonk women, That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues. I laid a divorcee in […]
when i was a young man i carried my pack And i lived the free life of a rover From the murrays green basin to the dusty outback I waltzed my matilda all over Then in nineteen fifteen my country said son It’s time to stop rambling ’cause there’s work to be Done So they […]
[the pogues’ version] ——————————– It’s of a gentleman soldier As sentry he did stand He saluted a fair maiden By a waiving of his hand So then he boldly kissed her And he passed it off as a joke He drilled her up in the sentry box Wrapped up in a soldier’s cloke And the […]
