The Pogues - Sea Shanty guitar tab

***SEA SHANTY - by Shane MacGowan

from the albums "Red Roses For Me"

Sea Shanty - as perfomed by The Pogues

C

Dear dirty London in the pouring rain

C F

I wish to God I was back on the sea again

C

Though that belongs to the world of never will be

C F

there was never a wilder bastard than me on the sea

C F

I could fuck all the whores in damnation me boys

C F

Though they wriggled and hollered and made a great noise

C F

Then I'd drink 'til I stank and then drink plenty more

C F

And I won't go down to the sea any more

C F

But if I had ten pounds then I'd raise a loud cheer

C F

And I'd toast all me neighbours both distant and dear

C F

And I'd shoot back great belly-crippling buckets of beer

C F

And a pox and a curse on the people round here

C F

Wouldn't give you the price of a half pint of beer

C F

Wouldn't give you the price of a cup of good cheer

C F

A pox and a curse on the people round here

Inst ||:C G|F G|C G|F G C:||

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A man's ambition must indeed be small to write his name upon a shithouse wall

But before I die I'll add my regal scrawl to show the world I'm left with sweet fuck all

And when all of us bold shithouse poets do die

A monument grand they will raise to the sky

A monument made just to mark our great wit

A monument of solid shit now me boys

I met with Bill James we fought over crusts

He called me a whore and I booted his crutch

Then we shared out the jack and we thought it a treat

The compliments pass when the quality meet

The compliments pass when the quality meet

The compliments pass when the quality meet

The compliments pass when the quality meet

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