And I courted Peggy Dignam, as pretty as you please.
A rogue and child of Mary, from the rebel Liberties.
I lost her to a student chap, with skin as black as coal.
When he took her off to Birmingham, she took away me soul
Is it just me or does that sound slightly racist? It's a good thing Dave King didn't write these lyrics, or I might have stopped listening to them. Some guy named Pete St. John wrote the words.
And I courted Peggy Dignam, as pretty as you please. A rogue and child of Mary, from the rebel Liberties. I lost her to a student chap, with skin as black as coal. When he took her off to Birmingham, she took away me soul
Is it just me or does that sound slightly racist? It's a good thing Dave King didn't write these lyrics, or I might have stopped listening to them. Some guy named Pete St. John wrote the words.