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              E
And opened in honour of those who have drowned
      Bm          Em      D             G
While we who have not are stricken with guilt
    F         Bb6          E
And dutifully see that not one drop is spilt
      A           Em         D           Dm
We're drinking to life we're drinking to death
      F#m           Amaj7       D          E
We're drinking 'til none of our livers are left
      Bm          Em          D          G
We're winding our way down to the spirit store
      F             Bb6        E        A     Em  D  Dm
We'll drink till we just can't 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          Dm
Well, bloody my nose and blacken my eye
      F#m              Amaj7   D           E
If it ain't some young Turk in search of a fight
    Bm            Em       D            G
And Chanticleer's chest is sagging with pride
    F          Bb6       E
For honour has yet to be satisfied
      A         Em         D          Dm
Well, Heaven be thanked we live in an age
     F#m         Amaj7     D          E
When no man need bother except on the stage
      Bm        Em           D          G
With "Dulce et decorum est pro 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
                                        C#
So now with years of discretion 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  D  Dm
Oh, raise your   glasses high
    F#m   Amaj7   D    E
And drink the     town dry

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