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Current version of The Pogues Lyrics Drunken Boat (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/p/pogues/drunken/) Current version of the lyrics |
Version 1 of The Pogues Lyrics Drunken Boat (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/p/pogues/drunken/v1.html) Version 1 of the lyrics | |||||||||||||
| The wind was whipping shingle through the windows in the town | The wind was whipping shingle through the windows in the town | |||||||||||||
| A hail of stones across the roof, the slates came raining down | A hail of stones across the roof, the slates came raining down | |||||||||||||
| A blade of light upon the spit came sweeping through the roar | A blade of light upon the spit came sweeping through the roar | |||||||||||||
| With me head inside a barrel and me leg screwed in the floor | With me head inside a barrel and me leg screwed in the floor | |||||||||||||
| Mother pack me bags because I'm off to foreign parts | Mother pack me bags because I'm off to foreign parts | |||||||||||||
| Don't ask me where I'm going 'cause I'm sure it's off the charts | Don't ask me where I'm going 'cause I'm sure it's off the charts | |||||||||||||
| 1 | I'll pin your likeness on the wall right by my sleeping head | I'll pin your likeness on the wall right buy my sleeping head | 1 | |||||||||||
| I'll send you cards and letters so you'll know that I'm not dead | I'll send you cards and letters so you'll know that I'm not dead | |||||||||||||
| By this time in a week I should be far away from home | By this time in a week I should be far away from home | |||||||||||||
| Trailing fingers through the phospor or asleep in flowers of foam | Trailing fingers through the phospor or asleep in flowers of foam | |||||||||||||
| From Macao to Acapulco from Havana to Seville | From Macao to Acapulco from Havana to Seville | |||||||||||||
| We'll see monoliths and bridges and the Christ up on the hill | We'll see monoliths and bridges and the Christ up on the hill | |||||||||||||
| An aria with the Russians at the piano in the bar | An aria with the Russians at the piano in the bar | |||||||||||||
| 2 | With ice floes through the window we raised glasses to the Czar | With icefloes through the window we raised glasses to the Czar | 2 | |||||||||||
| 3 | We squared off on a dockside with a couple a hundred Finns | We squared off on a dockside with a coupled hundred Finns | 3 | |||||||||||
| 4 | We dallied in the 'dilly and we soaked ourselves in gin | And we dallied in the 'dilly and we stoaked ourselves in gin | 4 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Now the only deck that I'd want to walk | Now the only deck I'd want to walk | 5 | |||||||||||
| Are the stalks of corn beneath my feet | Are the stalks of corn beneath my feet | |||||||||||||
| And the only sea I want to sail | And the only sea I want to sail | |||||||||||||
| Is the darkned pond in the scented dusk | Is the darkned pond in the scented dusk | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Where a kid grow's full of sadness | Where a kid crouced full of sadness | 6 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Let's all go drifting out into the evening sun | Lets his boat go drifting out | 7 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Into the evening sun | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | At nights we'd pass the bottle round andd drink to our lost friends | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | We lay alone upon our bunks and prayed that this would end. | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | With walls of moving shadows, and rows of swinging keys | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | We dreamed that whole leviathans lay rotting in the reeds. | 6 | ||||||||||||
| We sailed through constellations and were rutted by the storm | We sailed through constellations and were rutted by the storm | |||||||||||||
| I crumpled under cudgel blows and finally came ashore | I crumpled under cudgel blows and finally came ashore | |||||||||||||
| I spent the next two years or more just staring at the wall | I spent the next two years or more just staring at the wall | |||||||||||||
| We went to sea to see the world and what d'you think we saw? | We went to sea to see the world and what d'you think we saw? | |||||||||||||
| If we turned the table upside down and sailed around the bed | If we turned the table upside down and sailed around the bed | |||||||||||||
| Clamped knives between our teeth and tied bandannas round our heads | Clamped knives between our teeth and tied bandannas round our heads | |||||||||||||
| With the wainscot our horizon and the ceiling as the sky | With the wainscot our horizon and the ceiling as the sky | |||||||||||||
| 8 | You'd not expect that anyone would go and fuckin' die | You'd not expect that anyone would go and fucking die | 8 | |||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Now the only deck that I'd want to walk | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Are the stalks of corn beneath my feet | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | And the only sea I want to sail | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Is the darkned pond in the scented dusk | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Where a kid grow's full of sadness | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Let us all go drifting out into the evening sun | 7 | ||||||||||||
| At nights we passed the bottle round and drank to our lost friends | At nights we passed the bottle round and drank to our lost friends | |||||||||||||
| We lay alone upon our bunks and prayed that this would end | We lay alone upon our bunks and prayed that this would end | |||||||||||||
| A wall of moving shadows with rows of swinging keys | A wall of moving shadows with rows of swinging keys | |||||||||||||
| We dreamed that whole Leviathans lay rotting in the weeds | We dreamed that whole Leviathans lay rotting in the weeds | |||||||||||||
| There's a sound that comes from miles away if you lean your head to hear | There's a sound that comes from miles away if you lean your head to hear | |||||||||||||
| 9 | A ship's bell rings on board a wreck when the air is still and clear | A ship's bell rings on board a wreck where the air is still and clear | 9 | |||||||||||
| 10 | And up above that means another angel's got his wings | And up in heaven that means another angel's got his wings | 10 | |||||||||||
| 11 | But all below it signifies is a ship's gone in the drink | But all below it signifies is a ship's gone in the drink | 11 | |||||||||||
| 8 | 8 | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Now the only deck that I'd want to walk | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | Are the stalks of corn beneath my feet | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | And the only sea I want to sail | 11 | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Is the darkned pond in the scented dusk | 12 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Where a kid grow's full of sadness | 13 | ||||||||||||
| 14 | Let us all go drifting out into the evening sun | 14 | ||||||||||||
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