The Pogues - My Blue Heaven guitar tab

***MY BLUE HEAVEN - written by Philip Chevron and Darryl Hunt

from the album "Peace And Love"

My Blue Heaven - As performed by The Pogues

INTRO: C F G (4x)

C

Alligators snap at your ankles

F G

And branches snap at your brain

C

If I ever get through this swamp alive

F G

I'll nevermore pray for rain

C

This must be the place, and still

F G

Somehow it don't seem right

C

That something in the moon

F

Could change these endless days

G

To lonely nights

I take a stroll down by the sea

And walk along the pier

Then I slip and hit my head

Now's the time to fear

See the surface, see the rocks

See my past fly swiftly by

I feel the water in my lungs

And wake up screaming for my life

C

In my blue heaven

F G

There's a bottle of Pontchetrain

C

Chalmette by moonlight

F G

To take away the pain

C G

Card sharks and blue harps

F G

And dolphins who can leap

C

In my Blue Heaven

F

Where I can laugh

G

And I can weep

Black shapes zip into corners

The big lads start to crawl

To holes of their own making

In the cracks within the wall

Snakes and rats and spiders

I know that they're still there

I pray to God that I may sleep

Without a hope, without a care

In my blue heaven

There's a bottle of Pontchetrain

Chalmette by moonlight

To take away the pain

Felines and sea lions

And rain on the beach

In my Blue Heaven

With angels who are out of reach

In my blue heaven

There's a bottle of Pontchetrain

Chalmette by moonlight

To take away the pain

Nightingales sing

And the bells they will ring

In my Blue Heaven

The Bells of Hell

Go ding-a-ling-a-ling

C F C G C F C G C (repeated to fade out)