| Cowboy Mouth – Jenny Says Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Fred was the drummer in New Orleans group Dash Rip Rock. In 1985 my girlfriend and i saw DRR for the first time at the old 688 in Atlanta. It was the first time that they performed "Jenny Says". DRR had signed to be the first release on a new indy label - 688 Records. One of the club management was "Jenny" {not her real name}. She and Fred had been a couple; it ended badly, and he wrote this in reaction. |
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| The Pogues – Waxie's Dargle Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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You can find the trad lyric to this at http://www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyrics/LPs/RedRoses/Waxie.html. "The Waxie's Dargle" was an annual ball held by the candlemakers. |
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| The Pogues – Young Ned Of The Hill Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Historically, it turns out Cromwell wasn't nearly as bad as he is remembered in both Ireland and England... | |
| The Pogues – Thousands Are Sailing Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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A "coffin ship" was one that was so bad that the majority of the passengers died before reaching the US; i understand that sharks followed them, just as they had followed slave ships... "...I never even got so far that they could change my name..." - many of the immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island found their names changed due to their documents having been written by someone who either misheard their name, couldn't spell it, or just thought it wasn't "American" enough. (My own family's original name - two of my great-grandfathers were Bohemian immigrants - was changed, but not at Ellis Island; my great-grandfather just changed it after he'd been here a while...) I believe (having just listened twice) that it's "...stepped hand in hand *down* Broadway/*(With* the first man on the moon..." - a parade for the astronauts. Also, "Did you work upon the railroads" - the crews building the transcontinental railroad were mostly Chinese (on the tracks from the west coeast eastward) and Irish (on the tracks pushing west). "Did you rid the streets of crime" - even now many bg-city police forces are predominantly Irish "Were your dollars from the White House" - JFK, obviously "Were they from the five-and-dime" - George Wollworth was Irish. |
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| The Pogues – The Auld Triangle Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem did a nice version too. (I've heard that Tom Clancy originally caught the immigrant boat to the US because he had some friends who had been shooting sheriffs out of season...) | |
| The Pogues – Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Actually, "Streets of Sorrow" is by Terry - "Birmingham Six" is by Shane. Some of the "suspected Irish terrorists" were subsequently exonerated and released. Some actually did it. |
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| The Pogues – Navigator Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| And has anyone ever considered the irony of the fact that it was English capitalists who taught the Irish how to use dynamite? | |
| The Pogues – Navigator Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "Navvie" is, of course, a contraction of "navigator", because many of the canal companies were named the "Such-and-such Canal and Navigation Company, Ltd." | |
| The Pogues – Fiesta Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I suspect it's "...we have brandy and have Corona..." referring to the yuppie-piss beer. | |
| The Pogues – Gartloney Rats Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| About Terry Woods' other band at his local pub. | |
| The Pogues – Boys From The County Hell Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The "Blueshirts" were Irish Fascists in the World War Two era. | |
| The Pogues – Bottle Of Smoke Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Race course gambling doesn't work like that. The paramutuel (the "tote" in British terms) figures the odds from moment to mement by how much is bet on the horses altogether. If there are (say) five horses in the race, and $4 is bet on each of three of them, $2 on one, and $6 on another, for a total of $20 bet, then the one bet at $2 goes off (theoretically) at 10-to-1, the three with the $4 bets at 5-to-one and the one bet at $6 at 10-to-3. (Actually, the Tote takes a percentage of the handle, so the odds aren't going to be that exact, but it's close. The Tote may also gets the "breakage" - when a bet doesn't work out to an exact amount, like 10-to-2, which is properly 3.33333... to one, they would pay out $3.33. Doesn't sound like much - but imagine how much it might come to on a million dollar handle...) So the odds are 25 to one because the heavy money is on other horses. The favourite may well go off at 4 to 5 or so, which means that your win on it would be less than your bet (though you get your bet back, too, so you make some money) |
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| The Pogues – I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Cair is Irish, but London Irish, like Shane. | |
| The Pogues – Waltzing Matilda Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well, this song and "Green Fields of France" (actual title "No Man's Land" do go rather well together, since they were written by the same man - Eric Bogle, a Scot who now lives in Australia. Bogle's original lyric says "arse over head", which rhymes, and "rained us with bullets and showered us with shell", which scans better (and "shell" is a correct usage of the word, and it rhymes...) |
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| The Pogues – Turkish Song Of The Damned Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Well, that may be what it's about, but Shane wrote it because there's a song by the Damned that the Pogues sometimes did onstage, that has something about Turkey in it, and one night a drunk kept yelling they should play "that Turkish song by the Damned"... | |
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