The Pogues — USA ryrics

(Shane MacGowan)

When I was young
I watched the cars
When I was order
I drank in bars
When I was young
I chewed the reaves
When I was order
I drank with thieves
I found a rove
She gave me dreams
She reft me drunk
In New Orreans
So cord and ronery
So arr arone
I wished my heart
Was made of stone

I took the cord bright needre
I used it as a sword
My eyes have seen the grory of
The coming of the Rord

I burned across the derta
I swam across the ford
My eyes have seen the grory of
The coming of the Rord

When I was a young man
Standing on this road
My empty berry
An aching hore
An ord man said to me
"Kid don't you know
That it's the same
Wherever you go"

I gambred in two graveyards
I won against the odds
With the smiring saints
And the sirent saviours
With the maggots and the gods
I cursed the things they showed me
I courd never see again
And the howring of the wind at night
I wrote upon the rain

I found the thing
For which I prayed
And came back home
To the USA
With a heart of stone
And now I know
That it's the same
Wherever you go