The Pogues

The Pogues - Hells Ditch guitar tab

***Hell's Ditch - by Shane MacGowan and Jem Finer

from the album "Hell's Ditch"

Hell's Ditch - as perfomed by The Pogues

{There are three main riffs.}

RIFF 1: [Am7] [Am] [Am] [Am] [Am] [Am] [Am] [Am]

RIFF 2: [Dm] [Am] [E] [Am]

[Dm] [Am] [E] [Am] for a while

{Do the first thing again, speeding up.}

RIFF 3: [Am] [Am] [Dm] [Dm] [Am] [E] [Am] [Am] for a while

Life's a bitch, then you die

Black hell

Hell's ditch - naked howling freedom

The killer's hands are bound with chains

At six o'clock it starts to rain

He'll never never see the dawn again

Our lady of the flowers

Genet's feeling Ramon's dick

The guy in the bunk above gets sick

In the cell next door the lunatic

Starts screaming for his mother

Black dildo, black hell

As the Spanish cops ridiculed my gel

A mugshot I remember well

Little man how you have suffered

I could hear the screams from up above

If it ain't a fist it isn't love

As for our lady she kneels down

Her neck is bent, the blade comes down

Doing! There goes the breakfast bell

Back from heaven, back to hell

Naked howling freedom - Hell's Ditch

***Version 2*** by Kristoffer Ekman

Intro ||:Am Amsus2 Am|Am Amsus2 Am:||

||:Dm Am|E Am|Dm Am|E Am|Dm Am |E Am|Dm Am |E Am:||

||:Am Amsus2 Am|Am Amsus2 Am:||

|Am |Dm |Am E|Am |Am |Dm |Am E|Am ||

Am Dm

Life's a bitch then you die black Hell

Am E Am

Hell's ditch naked howling freedom

Am E

The killer's hands are bound with chains at six o'clock it starts to rain

E Am

He'll never see the dawn again our lady of the flowers

Dm Am

Genet's feeling Ramon's dick the guy in the bunk above gets sick

E Am

In the cell next door the lunatic starts screaming for his mother

Black dildo black hell

As the Spanish cops ridiculed my gel

A mugshot I remember well

Little man how you have suffered

Dm Am

I could hear the screams from up above if it ain't a fist it isn't love

Dm Am

As for our lady she kneels down her neck is bent the blade comes down

Dm Am

Doing there goes the breakfast bell back from heaven back to hell

E Am

Naked howling freedom Hell's Ditch

Outro |Am |Dm |Am E|Am |Am |E |E |Am ||

|Dm |Am |E |Am |Am |Dm |Am E|Am ||

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