Go Home Bible Mike by the Fatima Mansions
From the Fatima Mansions’ 1992 Valhalla Avenue album. Written by Cathal Coughlan. No capo.
INTRO
“One was taking the gate down today, and one reads the Bible.”
[C7] [Bb]
VERSE 1
[C7] Welcome to Apeville
[C7] Now you’re a citizen too
[Bb] Meet Mrs. Doreen Pompidou
She’d [Bb] like to do the shimmy on top of you
[C7] The wall is coming down
The [C7] one which holds the house up
A [Bb] brass band playing in a dumptruck
Is [Bb] visible through clouds of brick-dust
As [Dm7] people dressed as cows form an orderly queue
For a [Bbmaj7] drug that makes you dead for a second or two
I [Dm7] raise myself from my punchbowl, drowning:
The Ya [Bbmaj7] kuza are singing: It can’t be true
CHORUS 1
[Gm7] Go home, Bible Mike (x4)
VERSE 2
[C7]
Her [C7] hand squeezes mine and I shudder
She says “[C7] That was one shock, now here comes another
You [Bb] really don’t remember, do you?”
I said [Bb] “Why? Am I supposed to?
Me, the [C7] slut of disheveled women
Whom [C7] fun has made sad and careless?”
Now she’s [Bb] knocked me onto the greasy floor
And her [Bb] eunuch is barring the only door
Pi [Dm7] lar, in her room above the pharmacia
[Bbmaj7] Smiles as she pictures your little thing
I [Dm7] magine her surprise when she looks through the window
And sees you [Bbmaj7] riddled with bullets
While the cops all sing:
CHORUS 2
[Gm7] Go home, Bible Mike!
[Gm7] Go home, Bible Mike!
You [Gm7] preach without a right
[Gm7] Go home, Bible Mike!
You don’t [Gm7] make me laugh, you don’t make me horny
So [Gm7] what the hell are we doing here?
HAVE FUN!
[Gm6] [C7] [Bb]
Gasping all night in this Nazi city
You bit it, I’m bleeding, we’re sliding on my blood
Humping on my blood
Market my blood!
Market my blood!
You got a tourist mind
Deaf, dumb and blind to all the pain you bring
This is more than just sin
“Am I really such a nightmare?
If I had a home I’d go there.”
CHORUS 3/FADE
[Gm7] Anytime you like
This [Gm7] court says, “Take a hike”
The [Gm7] slate will not be wiped
Just [Gm7] go home, Bible Mike
[Gm7] Go home, Bible Mike
[Gm7] Go home, Bible Mike
[Gm7] Go home, Bible Mike
[Gm7]