A Drinking Song

A      Em     D    Dm
F#m    Amaj7  D    E

[Verse 1]
A           Em       D         Dm
Back at the house, a bottle is found
    F#m       Amaj7     D        
And opened in honour of those who
      E
 have drowned
      Bm          Em      D      
While we who have not are 
       G
stricken with guilt
    F         Bb6          E
And dutifully see that not one drop 
is spilt
      A           Em       
We're drinking to life we're 
  D           Dm
drinking to death
      F#m           Amaj7     
We're drinking 'til none of our 
  D          E
livers are left
      Bm          Em          D  
We're winding our way down to the
        G
 spirit store
      F             Bb6        E 
We'll drink till we just can't 
       A     Em  D  Dm
drink anymore

[Refrain]
F#m   Amaj7  D  E    A    Em  D  Dm
Raise your   glasses high,
F#m   E   D  E   A
drink the cellar dry

[Verse 2]
      A         Em       D       
Well, bloody my nose and blacken 
   Dm
my eye
      F#m              Amaj7 
If it ain't some young Turk in 
  D           E
search of a fight
    Bm            Em       D     
And Chanticleer's chest is 
       G
sagging with pride
    F          Bb6       E
For honour has yet to be satisfied
      A         Em         D     
Well, Heaven be thanked we live 
     Dm
in an age
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     F#m         Amaj7     D     
When no man need bother except on
     E
 the stage
      Bm        Em           
With "Dulce et decorum est pro 
D          G
patria mori"
    F          Bb6   G#
And definitely not tonight

[Bridge]
                     Fm
I can still remember
                     C#
When I was just a kid
                                  Eb
I was free to do what I wanted to
                      Cm
But I never, ever did
So now with years of discretion 
        C#
reached
                  C#
May we not forget
       Bb
"Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité"
            Eb
For there's life in the Old World 
yet!
         G#           Fm
There'll always be an England
   C#            Eb
An Ireland and a France
  Cm                C#
A Liechtenstein and Finland
    Bb           E   Eb
And we have only one chance

[Pre-Chorus]
G#
Earnest young man with an unhealthy 
tan
       Fm
Puts a drink in my hand and says "I 
understand
          C#
You're in search of the place to 
continue the chase
       Eb
Of the heavenly taste I suggest in 
that case that you
Cm
All come with me to my place by the 
sea
          C#
Where the glasses shall be 
overflowing with free
    Bb
Alcoholic delights and free love if 
you like
         E
For what point has this life If you 
can't realise
     A        Em  D  Dm
Your dreams?"

[Refrain]
    F#m   Amaj7  D  E    A   Em
Oh, raise your   glasses high
  D  Dm

    F#m   Amaj7   D    E
And drink the     town dry

[Verse 3]
      A       Em       D         
We'll drink beyond the boundaries
    Dm
 of sense
      F#m           Amaj7        
We'll drink 'til we start to see 
D           E
lovely pink elephants
Bm         Em    D          G
Inside our heads inside our beds
F          Bb6            E
Inside the threads of our pyjama 
legs
         A             Em      D 
So don't shoot til you see the 
          Dm
reds of our eyes
       F#m     Amaj7     D       
And an army of elephants marching
   E
 behind
         Bm        Em            
From the day I was born till the 
D            G
night I will die
       F              Bb6    
All my lovers will be pink and 
  E      A
elephantine