Pogues : Rum, Sodomy And The Lash

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One summer evening drunk to hell

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I sat there nearly lifeless

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An old man in the corner sang

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Where the water lilies grow

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And on the jukebox Johnny sang

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About a thing called love

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And it's "How are you, kid?"

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And "What's your name?"

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And "How would you bloody know?" In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky I lay down on the ground And the arms and legs of other men Were scattered all around Some cursed some prayed some prayed then cursed Then prayed and bled some more And the only thing that I could see

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Was a pair of brown eyes that was looking at me

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But when we got back labelled parts one to three

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There was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me

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And a-rovin', a-rovin', a-rovin' I'll go

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And a-rovin', a-rovin', a-rovin' I'll go

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And a-rovin', a-rovin', a-rovin' I'll go

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For a pair of brown eyes

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For a pair of brown eyes I looked at him he looked at me All I could do was hate him While Ray and Philomena sang Of my elusive dream I saw the streams and the rolling hills Where his brown eyes were waiting And I thought about a pair of brown eyes That waited once for me That waited once for me So drunk as hell I left the place Sometimes walking, sometimes crawling A hungry sound came through the breeze So I gave the walls a talking And I heard the sounds of long ago From the old canal And the birds were whistling in the trees Where the wind was gently laughing And a-rovin', a-rovin', a-rovin' I'll go A-rovin', a-rovin', a-rovin' I'll go And a-rovin', a-rovin', a-rovin' I'll go For a pair of brown eyes For a pair of brown eyes

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I met my love by the gas works wall

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Dreamed a dream by the old canal

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I kissed my girl by the factory wall

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Dirty old town, dirty old town Clouds are drifting across the moon Cats are prowling on their beats Springs a girl on the streets at night Dirty old town, dirty old town

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Heard a siren from the dock Saw a train cut the night on fire Smelled the breeze on the smokey wind Dirty old town, dirty old town I'm going to make me a big sharp axe Shining steel tempered in the fire I'll chop you down like an old dead tree Dirty old town, dirty old town I met my love, by the gas works wall Dreamed a dream, by the old canal I kissed my girl, by the factory wall Dirty old town, dirty old town Dirty old town, dirty old town

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When I was a young man, I carried my pack

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And I lived the free life of a rover

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From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback

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I waltzed my Matilda all over

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Then in 1915, my country said, "Son"

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"It's time to stop rambling, there's work to be done"

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So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun

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And they sent me away to the war

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And the band played Waltzing Matilda

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As we sailed away from the quay

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And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers

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We sailed off for Gallipoli How well I remember that terrible day When the blood-stained the sand and the water And how in that hell that they called Souvla Bay We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter Johnny Turk, he was ready, he'd primed himself well He showered us with bullets and he rained us with shells And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell Nearly blew us right back to Australia And the band played Waltzing Matilda As we stopped to bury our slain And we buried ours and the Turks buried theirs And it started all over again Now those who were living, did their best to survive In that mad world of guts, blood, and fire And for seven long weeks I kept myself alive As the corpses around me piled higher Then a big Turkish shell, knocked me arse over tit And when I awoke in my hospital bed And saw what it had done, Christ I wished I was dead Never knew there were worse things than dying And no more I'll go Waltzing Matilda To the green bushes so far and near For to hang tent and pegs a man needs two legs No more Waltzing Matilda for me So they collected the crippled, the wounded and maimed And they shipped us back home to Australia The legless, the armless, the blind and insane Those proud wounded heroes of Souvla And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay I looked at the place where my legs used to be And thank Christ, there was nobody waiting for me To grieve and to mourn and to pity And the band played Waltzing Matilda As they carried us down the gangway But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared And they turned their faces away And now every April, I sit on my porch And I watch the parades pass before me I see my old comrades, how proudly they march Reliving the dreams of past glory I see the old men, all twisted and torn The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war And the young people ask me, what are they marching for? And I ask myself the same question And the band plays Waltzing Matilda And the old men still answer the call But year after year their numbers get fewer Someday no one will march there at all

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Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda

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Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me?

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Pogues : Rum, Sodomy And The Lash 1985

A Pair Of Brown Eyes

Dirty Old Town

And The Band Played Walzing Matilda