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