Drunken Boat Chords by The Pogues

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_ _ The wind was whipping shingle through the [G] old walls in the town.
A hail of stones across the room, [Cm] the sleighs came raining down.
A blade of lice upon the spit came [Fm] sweeping through the roar.
With [G] me head inside a barrel and me legs screwed in the floor.
[Cm] Mother pack me back because [G] I'm a-fuckin'-poss.
Don't ask me where I'm going, cause I'm [Cm] sure it's up the charts.
I'll pin you like this on the wall right [Fm] by my sleeping head.
[G] I'll send you nerdy letters so you'll know that I'm not dead.
[Cm] By this time in a week I should be far away from home.
Trailing finger through the phosphor or [Cm] a sleeping cloud of foam.
From Macau to Acapulco, from Havana to Seville.
We'll [G] see monoliths and bridges and the Christ up on the hill.
[Cm] An aria with the Russians at [G] the piano in the bar.
[G] When ice flows through the window we [Cm] write glass into the jar.
We squared up for a dockside with a couple of hundred men.
We gallied in a dilly and we soaked ourselves to jet.
[Fm] Now the only deck that [Cm] I want to walk [G] are the sloughs of [Cm] cotton beneath my feet.
[Fm] And the only sea [Cm] I want to sail.
[G] It's a darkened pond in the sand and dust where a kid craps for her Samus.
Next his boat goes drifting out [Cm] into the [G] evening [Cm] sun. _ _ _ _
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We sailed through constellations [G] and were ruffled by the storm.
I crumpled under cudgel blows [Cm] and finally came ashore.
I spent the next two years or more just staring at the wall.
[G] We went to sea to see [G] our world.
What do you think we saw?
[Cm] We turned the table upside down and [G] sailed around the bed.
Clamped knives between our teeth and [Cm] tied bandanas round our heads.
With the wainscot our horizon [C] and the ceiling as the sky.
[G] You'd not expect that anyone would go and fucking die.
[Fm] Now the only deck [Cm] that I want to walk [G] are the sloughs of [Cm] cotton beneath my feet.
And [Fm] the only sea [Cm] I want to sail.
[G] It's a darkened pond in the sand and dust where a kid craps for her Samus.
Next his boat goes drifting out into the evening [Cm] sun.
_ _ _ _ _ _ At night we passed a bottle [G] round and drank to our last friends.
We lay alone upon our boats in the [Cm] dread that this would end.
A wall of moving shadows with [Fm] rows of swinging keys.
We dreamed that all the fireflies lay rotting in the reeds.
[Cm] There's a sound that comes from miles away [G] if you leave your head to hear.
A ship's bell rings on board a wreck [Cm] when the air is still and clear.
And up above that means [C] another angel's got his wings.
[G] But all below it signifies is a ship's caught in the drink.
[Fm] Now the only deck [Cm] that I want to walk are [G] the sloughs of [Cm] cotton beneath my feet.
And [Fm] the only [F] sea [Cm] I want to sail.
[G] It's a darkened pond in the sand and dust where a kid craps for her Samus.
Next his boat goes drifting out [Cm] into the evening sun.
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