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Down All The Days Lyrics
Christy Brown a clown around town
Now he's a man of renown from Dingle to Down
I type with me toes
Suck stout through me nose
And where it's gonna end
God only knows
Down all the days
The tap-tap-tapping
Of the typewriter pays
The gentle rattling
Of the drays
Down all the days
I have often had to depend upon
The kindness of strangers
But I've never been asked
And I never replied
If I supported the Glasgow Rangers
Down all the days
The tap-tap-tapping
Of the typewriter pays
The gentle rattling
Of the drays
Down all the days
Now he's a man of renown from Dingle to Down
I type with me toes
Suck stout through me nose
And where it's gonna end
God only knows
The tap-tap-tapping
Of the typewriter pays
The gentle rattling
Of the drays
Down all the days
The kindness of strangers
But I've never been asked
And I never replied
If I supported the Glasgow Rangers
The tap-tap-tapping
Of the typewriter pays
The gentle rattling
Of the drays
Down all the days
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"I have often had to depend upon / The kindness of strangers"
That's a reference to Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, in her last lines in the play, Blanche DuBois says how she "always depended on the kindness of strangers."
"But I've never been asked / And I never replied / If I supported the Glasgow Rangers"
the Rangers are the Protestant football (soccer) team in Glasgow, Scotland. Their rivals are the Glasgow Celtic Football Club which was the Catholic football club. The fans tended to divide along sectarian lines and if someone asked you if you supported the Rangers or Celtic, then you were being asked if you were Protestant or Catholic.
This song is about Christy Brown, the man who was portrayed in the movie "My Left Foot". Awesome song. The Pogues RULE!!!
FWIW, noise technicians Steel Pole Bath Tub did a very reverent cover of this song....