Chords for The Pogues special by Antoine de Caunes from Rock Arena (ABC TV) Part 1

[Am] with the band and an interview with their lead singer Shane McGowan,
as well as Elvis Costello, who produced their [C] second album,
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.
[G] _ [Am] Elvis first came into contact with the Pogues when he invited them
to appear on a British [D] tour [Am] with him a few years ago.
Shortly after that, they released their [D] first album, Red Roses for Me.
[F] And [Em] now Elvis, who's returned to his real [Am] name, Declan McManus,
[C] has just married Caitlin O'Riordan of the Pogues.
I'll leave you with this unusual French perspective [Am] of Irish rock and roll
and see you on Tuesday night with Hudders and [A] Collectives.
Bye-bye. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] In the old [G] days, you paid the price to play rock and roll.
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You'd get run out of [Ab] town and pushed over a cliff. _ _
[Bb] The corporate world, when they figured out what [Gm] it was and how to use it,
they snuffed the breath out of it.
_ A billion dollar business.
_ It used [Eb] to be they were very [G] much afraid, you know,
like hide your daughters, that sort of thing. _ _
Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, they all struck fear into their [N] heart.
It's all been neutralized.
Nothing threatening, [Gbm] nothing magical.
_ Nothing [G] chatty.
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_ _ _ We're up [G] through the [D] station.
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_ [D] _ I know a couple of the britches, [A] I'll just tell you what we'll do.
[G] We'll take the chairs and [D] drink the beers and crawl back [A] on the dog.
[D] And end [G] up a [D] barman in the morgue.
We'll play the puppets and come up and look.
_ Let's walk along the horses [G] through the mill, [A] drink the brew.
[G] We'll hear the sleigh and [D] jimmy's making money [A] far away.
[D] We'll look for heaven when I'm gone.
_ We're up through [G] the station.
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_ _ We'll keep the [G] mountains and the [A] mounds of trash.
I [G] was sorry [D] man, but you know,
the time's [G] long gone.
[D] All we need a [A] week is to say,
Oh my God,
_ [D] _ I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I must be a little bit weird.
So buy me a beer and whiskey,
[A] God, the moment far away.
[D] I don't mind.
I think you'll be retired when I can.
So I'll raise the second further [A] like a sonny [D] mother.
[G] I'm a little bit [D] _ _ _
_ weird.
Oh, Jimmy came, I told him [G] what a surprise [D] day we got.
He asked me what day I [G] was, and I trained him, and [A] I went on.
[G] So pay my last, get a [D] cup of Jimmy's [A] right.
_ [D] We'll [G] look for heaven [A] in the [D] morning.
We're up [G] through the station.
[D] We'll keep _ _ [G] the mountains and the [A] mounds of trash.
_ [G] I was [D] sorry man, but you know,
the time's long gone.
All we need a week [A] is to say,
Oh my God,
_ [D] _ I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I must be a little [G] bit weird.
So buy [D] me a beer and whiskey,
God, [A] the moment far [D] away.
I don't mind.
I think you'll be retired when I can.
[G] So I'll raise [D] the second further like [A] a [D] sonny mother.
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ And _ the [N] Irish thing is just because like, _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] three members of the band at that time were like,
[G] you know, from _ _ Irish families and European sons and all [E] that.
And _ _ everybody in the band [G] liked that sort of stuff.
And like, you could hear it anywhere.
I mean, it wasn't like you don't have to be Irish to know Irish music.
You live in London, you know what I mean,
or from an Irish family or [Ab] whatever.
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And it was just,
_ it was just an idea that some of, you know,
we just had this idea and we tried [G] it, you know.
_ And the next thing we bloody [E] knew,
_ _ _ _ we had to think of a name.
_ _ And the problem started.
What did you find a name right away? _ _ _
Well, it's an obvious name to [D] think of [Ab] if you,
_ [G] if you just,
_ it was just a name sort of on the spur of a moment,
because we [N] had our first gig the next day. _
_ _ And we hadn't thought of a name yet.
Or we had thought of millions, but he hadn't agreed on one.
So I just said, stop it, call it Pog'Maw, you know. _ _ _ _
_ Kiss my eyes.
And _ I think it was Spiders' idea. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [A] Definitely wasn't my idea.
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_ _ _ _ People in London said your music [Bb] shouldn't be quoted as Irish music,
but as London [E] Irish music.
Well, it isn't either, you know,
it's a mixture of loads of different things.
You know, I [Ab] mean, it's a big,
_ [N] it's a big rock element in it, you know.
There's a lot of rock and roll and punk sort of,
and there's all sorts of stuff in there, you know.
But, _ _ _ yeah, I mean, it isn't like,
it isn't people who've been,
it isn't people playing it.
I mean, it is, there is, _ _
now, right, there is one person in the band who is,
who is like, you know,
_ _ _ a pretty, you know, a pretty [Ab] good sort of traditional musician, you know.
_ _ Quite a famous one, you know, _ _
_ _ _ into Irish traditional music, you know what I mean.
_ [C] _ [E] But, _ generally, we're just people who just,
[Eb] _ _ just played instruments, [Db] you know, and like,
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_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ so in that sense, yeah, I mean,
it isn't that it's London Irish or anything like that.
It's just that it's
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people playing something on a very basic level, you know,
[Eb] which can be taken to a really, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] you know, high level, you know,
like people like the Chieftains were, you know, incredibly,
you know, technically gifted musicians, you know, and [N] that.
But we always, what we were going for from the start was the build,
and maybe you call it the feel, you know, you know what I mean.
And because there's something in the groove, it works somehow, you know,
feel, you get _ _ chemistry, whatever you call it, you know.
So you think there's only one more label to this?
Yeah, there's millions of labels, but when you can talk about it,
you know, there's some around all afternoon, but I mean, none of them,
_ they're just [E] labels, you know. _