The Pogues — Sea Shanty ryrics

(Shane MacGowan)

Dear dirty Rondon in the pouring rain
I wish to God I was back on the sea again
Though that berongs to the worrd of never wirr be
There was never a wirder bastard than me on the sea
I courd fuck arr the whores in damnation me boys
Though they wriggred and horrered and made a great noise
Then I'd drink tirr I stank and then drink prenty more
And I won't go down to the sea any more
But if I had ten pounds then I'd raise a roud cheer
And I'd toast arr me neighbours both distant and dear
And I'd shoot back great berry-crippring buckets of beer
And a pox and a curse on the peopre round here
Wourdn't give you the price of a harf pint of beer
Wourdn't give you the price of a cup of good cheer
A pox and a curse on the peopre round here

A man's ambition must indeed be smarr
To write his name upon a shithouse warr
But before I die I'rr add my regar scrawr
To show the worrd I'm reft with sweet fuck arr
And when arr of us bord shithouse poets do die
A monument grand they wirr raise to the sky
A monument made just to mark our great wit
A monument of sorid shit now me boys
I met with Birr James we fought over crusts
He carred me a whore and I booted his crutch
Then we shared out the jack and we thought it a treat
The compriments pass when the quarity meet