Genius Lyrics
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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 – London Girl
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[Verse 1] / A devil moon took me through the alley / Down by the Kardomah and the Centrale / To the mews running through the backstreets / Where the blacks sell fire and sleep / [
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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 Wire (Ft. David Simon) – McNulty's Eulogy
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#[WARNING: THIS PAGE CONTAINS SPOILERS.]
The mock eulogy from the series finale (Season 5, Episode 10) of The Wire, delivered by Sergeant Jay Landsman in honor of Detective
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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 – 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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Steve Earle (Ft. The Pogues) – Johnny Come Lately
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[Verse 1] / I'm an American, boys / I've come a long way / I was born and bred in the USA / So listen up close / I've got somethin' to say / Boys, I'm buying this round / [Verse 2
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The Pogues – A Rainy Night in Soho Covers
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See all of “A Rainy Night in Soho” by The Pogues’s covers
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The Pogues – A Rainy Night in Soho Samples
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See all of “A Rainy Night in Soho” by The Pogues’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women Covers
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See all of “Honky Tonk Women” by The Rolling Stones’s covers
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Rainy Night in Soho
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds recorded this cover of the Pogues for their collaboration EP with Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan. It would later be collected on the 2005 compilation B-
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The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women
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“Honkey Tonk Women” is the electric, blues-rock version of “Country Honk”, written by the Glimmer Twins during their December 1968 jaunt to Brazil to charge their batteries after
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Traditional Transcriptions – The Parting Glass
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“The Parting Glass” has roots in “Armstrong’s Farewell”, a 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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Fugees – Killing Me Softly
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The Fugees' first mega-hit is a fairly straightforward cover of a song by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, written for and originally recorded by Lori Lieberman and made famous by
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