The Pogues - Birmingham Six guitar tab

***Birmingham Six - by Shane MacGowan

from the album "If I Should Fall From Grace With God"

Birmingham Six - as performed by the Pogues

D

There were six men in Birmingham

G D

In Guildford there's four

D

That were picked up and tortured

G A

And framed by the law

D

And the filth got promotion

G

But they're still doing time

D

For being Irish in the wrong place

G A

And at the wrong time

D G D

In Ireland they'll put you away in the Maze

D G A

In England they'll keep you for several long days

D G

God help you if ever you're caught on these shores

D G A

The coppers need someone and they walk through that door

D

You'll be counting years

G

First five then ten

A7 D

Growing old in a lonely hell

D G

Round the yard and the stinking cell

A D

From wall to wall and back again

A curse on the judges, the coppers and screws

Who tortured the innocent wrongly accused

For the price of promotion

And justice to sell

May the judged be the judges

When they rot down in hell

You'll be counting years

First five then ten

Growing old in a lonely hell

Round the yard and the lousy cell

From wall to wall and back again

Break: [C,D] [C,D] [C,D] [C,A]

May the whores of the empire lie awake in their beds

And sweat as they count out their sins in their heads

While over in Ireland eight more men lie dead

Kicked down and shot in the back of the head

You'll be counting years

First five then ten

Growing old in a freezing hell

Round the yard and the lousy cell

From wall to wall and back again

Counting years

First five then ten

Growing old in a lonely hell

Round the yard and the lousy cell

From wall to wall and back again

Break: [C,D] [C,D] [C,D] [C,D] [C,D] [C,D] [C,D] [C,A]