Sea Shanty Lyrics - Red Roses For Me - Pogues

Dear dirty London in the pouring rain 

I wish to God I was back in the sea again 

Though that belongs to the world of never will be 

There was never a wilder bastard than me on the sea 

I could fuck all the whores in damnation me boys 

Though they wriggled and hollered and made a great noise 

Then I'd drink till I stank and then drink plenty more 

And I won't go down to the sea any more 

But if I had ten pounds then I'd raise a loud cheer 

And I'd toast all me neighbours both distant and dear 

And I'd shoot back great belly-crippling buckets of beer 

And a pox and a curse on the people round here 

Wouldn't give you the price of a half pint of beer 

Wouldn't give you the price of a cup of good cheer 

A pox and a curse on the people round here 

A man's ambition must indeed be small 

To write his name upon a shit house wall 

But before I die I'll add my regal scrawl 

To show the world I'm left with sweet fuck all 

And when all of us bold shit house poets do die 

A monument grand they will raise to the sky 

A monument made just to mark our great wit 

A monument of solid shit now me boys 

I met with Bill James we fought over crusts 

I called him a whore and he booted his crutch 

We shared out the jack and we thought it a treat 

The compliments pass when the quality meet 

The compliments pass when the quality meet 

The compliments pass when the quality meet 

The compliments pass when the quality meet