Browse Artists → # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Print
[ ]
Unrated:
0/5

Home P Pogues Down In The Ground Where The Dead ... Guitar Tab

#-----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE------------------------------#
# This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation #
# of the song. The owner of this website has not reviewed the contents of #
# this file. If you feel that the content of this file may be violating #
# copyright law, you may not use the information displayed here in any way. #
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------#

***Down in the Ground Where the dead Men Go - by Shane MacGowan
from the albums "Red Roses For Me"

Down in the Ground Where the dead Men Go - as perfomed by The Pogues


This song is pretty simple.

Play a C over the verse and an Am over the chorus.

Here is the melody:


e|-----------------------|
B|-----------------------|
G|-----------------------|
D|-----------0-2-0-2-0---|
A|---0-2-3-3-----------3-|
E|-3---------------------|


During the intro the guitar alternates between four bars of C and four bars of Am.
For the other melody parts I believe the guitar just plays C straight through.

***Version 2*** by Kristoffer Ekman

Intro ||:C |C |Am |Am |C |C |Am |Am :||
|C |C ||

C
Hello boys I've been away on a bit of a holiday
C
To the land where the rivers freely flow and the cattle roam on the wild callagh
C
Walking home three parts pissed I stumbled and fell in the morning mist
C
I fell and rolled in the hungry grass that tells the tale of a terrible past
C
I screamed and ran and dreamt I fell down in the depths of a freezing hell
C
The men coming off of their boats and say bouncing tooth and the skull that died
C
Bring out those ones for the better days gonna wrap me up and take me away
C
Four million people starved to death could smell the curse on their dying breath
C
Where no one ever wants to go
Am
Down in the ground where the dead men go down in the ground where the dead men go
Am
Down in the ground where the dead men go down in the ground where the dead men go

To hell which is circular all around down in the belly of the big cold ground
The moving shadows were everywhere the very trees seemed to bend and stare
I remembered the dunes on a Sligo shore screamed and ran till I could run no more
Over the hill and across the moor I ran in the house and slammed the door
What the hell's that over there a petrifying corpse sitting in that chair
Where no one ever wants to go
Down in the ground where the dead men go down in the ground where the dead men go
Down in the ground where the dead men go down in the ground where the dead men go

Inst |C |C |Am |Am |C |C |Am |Am ||

Been drunk as a skunk since I've been home from bar to bar like a ghost I roamed
I can't forget those things I saw been down with the devil in the Dalling Road
One place I don't want to go
Down in the ground where the dead men go down in the ground where the dead men go
Down in the ground where the dead men go down in the ground where the dead men go
Down in the ground where the dead men go down in the ground where the dead men go
Down in the ground where the dead men go down in the ground where the dead men go
Down in the ground where the dead men go down in the ground where the dead men go

Outro ||:C |C |Am |Am |C |C |Am |Am :||
||:C |C |Am |Am |C |C |Am |Am :||

Brought to you by the GUITARMASTA - http://www.guitarmasta.net

Source: GuitarMasta.net
http://www.guitarmasta.net/p/pogues,_the/.html


Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
 
 
No Picture

Pablo
Rhythm Player
#1 by Pablo Muņiz at Oct 31, 1983 at 3:56 AM EST
i love this song period. its just fun to listen to
 
No Picture

NIK
Average
#2 by NIK blaszczyszyn at Aug 17, 2003 at 9:02 PM EST
Main point I can make about this song is that it obviously refers to a trip to Ireland, as the reference to Sligo makes clear. Shane's rather morbid impressions never made much sense to me until I went to Ireland for myself. It's a beautiful country, yet there's a definite sense of haunting to the land, especially in the west. Givin the facts of Ireland's history (the Famine, continuous warfare) this is really not suprising. Stumble around drunk after midnight out in the countryside and you'll definitly get a feel for what Shane's talking about. There are ghosts out there, and you don't have to see them to feel their presence.