The Pogues - A Song From the Pogues

The pogues were the first band i ever went to sea. And this my favourite song of theirs, from album rum sodomy. The sa out verse from this song is always a frank ryan bought you whiskey in a brothel in madrid,. and you decked some blackshirt who was cursing all the years. It's really striking with both the billy brag song and the pogue song, that hat this moment in the mid eighties there is powerful nostalgia for the heroism of those struggles which produced ike woody gufferi and petes eager in the first place.