Pogues
Em
On the first day
of march
it was raining
It was raining
worse than anything
Am
that I have ever seen
I drank ten pints
of beer
G
and I cursed all the people there
And I wish that
all this rain
Em
would stop falling down on me
G
And it's lend me
ten pounds
D
and I'll buy you a drink
G
And mother wake me
D Em
early in the morning
At the time I was
working for a landlord
And he was the
meanest bastard that you have ever seen
And to lose a
single penny would grieve him awful sore
And he was a
miserable bollocks and a bitch's bastard's whore
I recall that we
took care of him one Sunday
We got him out the
back and we broke his fucking balls
And maybe that was
dreaming and maybe that was real
But all I know is
I left the place without a penny or fuck all
And now I've the
most charming of verandahs
I sit and watch
the junkies, the drunks and pimps and whores
Five green bottles
are sitting on the floor
And I wish to
Christ I wish to Christ that I had fifteen more
The boys and me are drunk and looking for you
We'll eat your
frigging entrails and we won't give a damn
Me daddy was a blueshirt
and my mother a madam
And my brother
earned his medals raping gooks in Vietnam
On the first day
of march it was raining
It was raining
worse than anything that I have ever seen
Stay on the other
side of the road 'cause you can never tell
We've a thirst
like a gang of devils we're the boys from the county hell