I've heard a similar story as fairportfan's, except that it was something about them being in Turkey and hearing a Damned song.
Some of the lyrics are paraphrased from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner". Shane also used the phrase about the minstrel "who stoppeth one in three", from the same poem, in the song "Fiesta".
I've heard a similar story as fairportfan's, except that it was something about them being in Turkey and hearing a Damned song.
Some of the lyrics are paraphrased from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner". Shane also used the phrase about the minstrel "who stoppeth one in three", from the same poem, in the song "Fiesta".