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| Pogues Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Old Main Drag When I first came to London I was only sixteen With a fiver in my pocket and my ole dancing bag I went down to the dilly to check out the scene And I soon ended up on the old main drag There the he-males and the she-males paraded in style And the old man with the money would flash you a smile In the dark of an alley you'll work for a five For a swift one off the wrist down on the old main drag In the cold winter nights the old town it was chill But there were boys in the cafes who'd give you cheap pills If you didn't have the money you'd cajole or you'd beg There was always lots of tuinol on the old main drag One evening as I was lying down by Leicester Square I was picked up by the coppers and kicked in the balls Between the metal doors at Vine Street I was beaten and mauled And the ruined my good looks for the old main drag In the tube station the old ones who were on their way out Would dribble and vomit and grovel and shout And the coppers would come along and push them about And I wished I could escape from the old main drag And now I'm lying here I've had too much booze I've been shat on and spat on and raped and abused I know that I am dying and I wish I could beg For some money to take me from the old main drag (Shane MacGowan) SONG: A Pair Of Brown Eyes One summer evening drunk to hell I sat there nearly lifeless An old man in the corner sang where the water lilies grow And on the jukebox Johnny sang about a thing called love And it's how are you kid and what's your name and how would you bloody know In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky I lay down on the ground And the arms and legs of other men were scattered all around Some cursed some prayed some prayed then cursed Then prayed then bled some more And the only thing that I could see Was a pair of brown eyes that was looking at me But when we got back labeled parts one to three There was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me And a rovin' a roving' a rovin' I'll go For a pair of brown eyes I looked at him he looked at me all I could do was hate him While Ray and Philomena sang of my elusive dreams I saw the streams and rolling hills where his brown eyes were waiting And I thought about a pair of brown eyes that waited once for me So drunk to hell I left the place sometimes crawling sometimes walking A hungry sound came across the breeze so I gave the walls a talking And I heard the sounds of long ago from the old canal And the birds were whistling in the trees where the wind was gently laughing So a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go For a pair of brown eyes For a pair of brown eyes (Shane MacGowan) |
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