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The Pogues (Ft. Kirsty MacColl) – Fairytale of New York
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The song took years to write, it was released in 1987. Now a Christmas Standard, it enters the UK Top Twenty every December.
It’s about an Irish couple who emigrated to America
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The Pogues – A Rainy Night in Soho
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First released on the Poguetry in Motion EP in 1991, “A Rainy Night in Soho” was retroactively included on the expanded CD edition of Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.
Like “Sally
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The Pogues – Dirty Old Town
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[Verse 1] / I met my love by the gas works wall / Dreamed a dream by the old canal / I kissed my girl by the factory wall / Dirty old town, dirty old town / [Verse 2] / Clouds are
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The Pogues – The Sickbed of Cúchulainn
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[Verse 1] / McCormack and Richard Tauber / Are singing by the bed / There's a glass of punch below your feet / And an angel at your head / There's devils on each side of you / With
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The Pogues – Thousands Are Sailing
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This song is from If I Should Fall from Grace with God (1988), and the lyrics were written by Phil Chevron.
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The Pogues – A Pair of Brown Eyes
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[Verse 1] / 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
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The Pogues – Boys from the County Hell
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[Verse 1] / On the first day of March, it was raining / It was raining worse than anything that I have ever seen / I drank ten pints of beer and I cursed all the people there / I
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The Pogues – Sally MacLennane
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The second single by the Pogues to make the UK Top 100, “Sally MacLennane” is a tale of life seen from behind the bar in a lively pub.
Sally MacLennane is either the singer’s
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The Pogues – Sayonara
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[Verse 1] / Okay, time for Sayonara / Go on, Yankee, break my heart / There's nothing left for us to say now / Even the best friends gotta part / [Verse 2] / I walked into the
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The Pogues – Misty Morning, Albert Bridge
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[Verse 1] / I dreamt we were standing by the banks of the Thames / Where the cold grey waters ripple in the misty morning light / Held a match to your cigarette, watched the smoke
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The Pogues – Fiesta
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“Fiesta” is a song from the Pogues' 1988 album If I Should Fall From Grace With God. It was based on a Spanish fairground melody overheard by Pogues member Jem Finer at the Feria
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The Pogues – The Old Main Drag
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[Verse 1] / When I first came to London, I was only sixteen / With a fiver in my pocket and my old dancing bag / I went down to the 'dilly to check out the scene / But I soon ended
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The Pogues – The Body of an American
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Originally released in 1986 on the Poguetry in Motion EP, Body of an American was later added as a bonus track to the 2005 reissue of Rum. It was also used as the music for wakes
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The Pogues – The Parting Glass
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“The Parting Glass” has roots in “Armstrong’s Farewell”, poem written by a Scottish Border Reiver on the occasion of his imminent execution for the murder of Sir John Carmichael
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The Pogues – Jesse James
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[Verse 1] / Jesse James, we understand, has killed him many a man / He robbed the Union trains / He stole from the rich, he gave to the poor / He had a hand and a heart and a brain
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The Pogues – Transmetropolitan
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[Verse 1] / In the rosy parks of England, we'll sit and have a drink / Of VP wine and cider 'til we can hardly think / And we'll go where the spirits take us, to heaven or to hell
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The Pogues – The Sunnyside of the Street
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[Verse 1] / Seen the carnival at Rome / Had the women and I had the booze / All that I can remember now / Is little kids without no shoes / [Chorus 1] / So I saw that train and I
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The Pogues – White City
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[Verse 1] / Here a tower shining bright once stood gleaming in the night / Where now there's just the rubble in the hole / Here the paddies and the frogs came to gamble on the dogs
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The Pogues – And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
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Cover version of Eric Bogle’s song
https://genius.com/Eric-bogle-and-the-band-played-waltzing-matilda-lyrics
The song describes war as futile and gruesome, while criticising those
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The Pogues – Navigator
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Navigators, or “navvies”, were labourers employed to work on the massive construction projects of the 18th to 20th centuries, including canals and railroads. Many if not most of
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The Pogues – Billy's Bones
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[Verse 1] / Billy ran around with the rare old crew / And he knew an Arsenal from Tottenham blue / We'd be a darn sight better off if we knew / Where Billy's bones are resting now
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The Pogues – Bottle of Smoke
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[Verse 1] / Thanks and praises, thanks to Jesus / I bet on the Bottle of Smoke / I went to hell and to the races / To bet on the Bottle of Smoke / The day being clear, the sky
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The Pogues – Infinity
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[Verse 1] / Now I'd like to tell you what your smile was for / And I loved you from the moment that you walked in that door / And I knew that I'd seen you before / [Chorus] / Some
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The Pogues – Medley: The Recruiting Sergeant / The Rocky Road to Dublin / The Galway Races
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This medley of three traditional songs appeared on the Pogues' 1988 album If I Should Fall From Grace With God.
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The Pogues – Summer in Siam
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[Verse] / When it's summer in Siam / And the moon is full of rainbows / When it's summer in Siam / And we go through many changes / [Chorus] / When it's summer in Siam / Then all I
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The Pogues – The Broad Majestic Shannon
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The title of this song is probably taken from the traditional song Will You Come To The Bower:
You can ride on the tide o'er the broad Majestic Shannon,
You can sail round Loch
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The Pogues – Streets of Sorrow / Birmingham Six
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Streets of Sorrow / [Chorus] / Oh farewell, you streets of sorrow / And farewell, you streets of pain / I'll not return to feel more sorrow / Nor to see more young men slain / [
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The Pogues – Streams of Whiskey
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[Verse 1] / Last night as I slept, I dreamt I met with Behan / I shook him by the hand and we passed the time of day / When questioned on his views on the crux of life's
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The Pogues – Haunted
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[Verse 1] / [Cait O'Riordan] Do you remember that sunny day? / Somewhere in London, it was really nowhere / Didn't have nothing to do that day / Didn't wanna do nothing anyway / [
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The Pogues – Metropolis
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[Instrumental]
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The Pogues – Dark Streets of London
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[Verse 1] / I like to walk in the summer breeze / Down Dalling Road by the dead old trees / And drink with my friends in the Hammersmith Broadway / Dear dirty delightful old
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The Pogues – Rain Street
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[Verse 1] / The church bell rings, an old drunk sings / A young girl hocks her wedding rings / Down Rain Street / [Verse 2] / Down the alley the ice wagon flew / Picked up a stiff
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The Pogues – Turkish Song of the Damned
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The second song from If I Should Fall From Grace With God, “Turkish Song of the Damned” follows the same metre and theme as Coleridge’s famous poem “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”.
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The Pogues – Lullaby of London
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[Verse 1] / As I walked down by the riverside / One evening in the spring / Heard a long-gone song from days gone by / Blowing in on the great north wind / [Verse 2] / Though there
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The Pogues – Poor Paddy
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[Verse 1] / In 1800 and 41, me corduroy breeches I put on / Me corduroy breeches I put on / To work upon the railway, the railway / I'm weary of the railway / Poor Paddy works on
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The Pogues – Worms
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[Verse] / The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out / The ones that go in are lean and thin / The ones that come out are fat and stout / Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
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The Pogues – Lorca's Novena
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[Verse 1] / Ignacio lay dying in the sand / A single red rose clutched in a dying hand / The women wept to see their hero die / And the big black birds gathered in the sky / [
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The Pogues – Hell's Ditch
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[Verse 1] / Life's a bitch, then you die, black hell / Hell's ditch, naked, howling freedom / The killer's hands are bound with chains / At six o'clock, it starts to rain / He'll
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The Pogues – The Ghost of a Smile
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[Verse 1] / You gotta walk that mile, honey child / You gotta walk that mile, honey child / I'll show you what is hip as we walk down Leeson Strip / And I'll do it for the ghost of
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