The Waterboys – The Hammerhead Bar (Guitar)

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The song riffs around an E E7 [Verse 1}
E
Anto took me down to Whistler's place
It was like a scene from a dream
D                         A
Tarantulas, drapes, magic mushroom cakes

       E
Sharks hanging from the beams

E
Dave Ruffian was there with a sad-eyed girl
And the son of Ringo Starr
         D
It was a night like any other, man

       A           A7               A6sus4
At the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead Bar
[Verse 2}
E
Four beer-bellied roadies from Uriah Heep
Were comparing stomach tattoos
D                         A
Two had Satan, one had Tam Paton

 E
One had a belt-shaped bruise

     E
In a spotlit corner a famous DJ
Was showing a starlet his scars
              D
Yeah it was all for one and one for all

        A           A7               A6sus4
At the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead, at the Hammerhead Bar
[Verse 3}
E
Three groupies were gargling umbrella drinks
Under the eye of the Ox
    D                         A
The first said to the second about the third

          E
"She's as square as a fucking box"

     E
Viv Stanshall turned up on cue
With a pickled skull in a jar
          D
There was always something intriguing to do

        A           A7               A6sus4
At the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead, at the Hammerhead Bar
[Verse 4}
    E
The local MP, a Tory grandee

    E
Sir Bufton Fairbairn-Smart

     D                           A
Who dressed like a cross between Robert The Bruce

       E
And Napoleon Bonaparte

      E
Was busy murdering Billy Joel's
"Just The Way You Are"
       D
It was business as usual, sunny boys

        A           A7               A6sus4
At the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead, at the Hammerhead Bar
[Verse 5}
       E
On the stroke of midnight Whistler said
N/C "Let us now toast the deceased!"
       D                   A
And he sank his snout in a stained-glass keg

   E
Of alcohol and yeast

    E
Nine Lithuanian dancing girls
Each sucking a fat cigar
      D
Jitterbugged along the beer-strewn top

        A           A7               A6sus4
Of the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead, of the Hammerhead Bar
[Verse 6}
      E
Those days are gone, those dancing days

   E
Of bacchanal, of drink

D                    A
Whistler sleeps with mermaids

E
Groupies are extinct

     E
The famous DJ is doing time
For acts lewd and bizarre
    D
And only dust remains, boys,

        A           A7               A6sus4
Of the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead, the Hammerhead Bar

                  E
Of the Hammerhead Bar

                  E
Of the Hammerhead Bar

                  E
Of the Hammerhead Bar