POGUES - Sea Shanty lyrics

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Dear dirty london in the pouring rain<br>I wish to God I was back on the sea again<br>Though that belongs to the world of never will be<br>There was never a wilder bastard than me on the sea<br>I could fuck all the whores in damnation me boys<br>Though they wriggled and hollered and made a great noise<br>Then I'd drink till I stank and then drink plenty more<br>And I won't go down to the sea any more<br>But if I had ten pounds then I'd raise a loud cheer<br>And I'd toast all me neighbours both distant and dear<br>And I'd shoot back great belly-crippling buckets of beer<br>And a pox and a curse on the people round here<br>Wouldn't give you me the price of a half pint of beer<br>Wouldn't give you me the price of a cup of good cheer<br>A pox and a curse on the people round here<br><br>A man's ambition must indeed be small<br>To write his name upon a shithouse wall<br>But before I die I'll add my regal scrawl<br>To show the world I'm left with sweet fuck all<br>And when all of us bold shithouse poets do die<br>A monument grand they will raise to the sky<br>A monument made just to mark our great wit<br>A monument of solid shit now me boys<br>I met with bill james we fought over crusts<br>I called him a whore and he booted me crotch<br>Then we shared out the jack and we thought it a treat<br>The compliments pass when the quality meet<br>The compliments pass when the quality meet<br>The compliments pass when the quality meet<br>The compliments pass when the quality meet