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McCormack and Richard Tauber, Are singin' by the bed
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There's a glass of punch below your feet, And an angel at your head
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There's devils on each side of you, With bottles in their hand
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You'll need one more drop of poison, And you'll dream of foreign lands
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When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt, And got syph down in Cologne
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And you heard the rattlin' death trains, As you lay there all alone
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Frank Ryan brought you whiskey, In a brothel in Madrid
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And you decked some fuckin' blackshirt, That was cursing all the yids
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At the sick bed of Cuchulainn, We'll kneel and say a prayer
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And the ghosts are rattlin' at the door, And the Devil's in the chair, Wheew
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And, In the Euston Tavern, You screamed it was your shout
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But they wouldn't give you service, So you kicked the windows out
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They took you out into the street, Kicked you in the brains
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So you walked back in through a bolted door, And did it all again
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At the sick bed of Cuchulainn, We'll kneel and say a prayer
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And the ghosts are rattlin' at the door, And the Devil's in the chair, Hey
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You remember that foul evening, When you heard the Banshees howl
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There were lazy drunken bastards singin', Billy In The bowl
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They took you up to midnight mass, And left you in the lurch
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So you dropped a button in the plate, And spewed up in the church
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Now, You'll sing a sing of liberty, For blacks and paks and jocks
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And they'll take you from this dump you're in, And stick you in a box
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Then they'll take you to Cloughprior, And shove you in the ground
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But you'll stick your head back out and shout, We'll have another round
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At the graveside of Cuchullainn, We'll kneel around and pray
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And God is in his Heaven, And Billy's down by the bay, Whoow
