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The Pogues Streams Of Whiskey Play Video

The Pogues Streams Of Whiskey

Good video of a classic Pogues song.

pogues - dirty old town Play Video

pogues - dirty old town

pogues - dirty old town

The Pogues & Kirsty McColl Fairytale Of New York Play Video

The Pogues & Kirsty McColl Fairytale Of New York

The Pogues & Kirsty McColl - Fairytale Of New York. This has always been my dads favourite christmas song and ever since i first heard it it was mine too. the best christmas song ever

The Pogues: Live Concert 1985 Play Video

The Pogues: Live Concert 1985

Here's a really great quality early show with The Pogues. Lots of really rare stuff featuring, And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, and Whiskey You're The Devil. Shane MacGowan, Jem Finer, James Fearnley, Cait O'...

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The Pogues Biography

The Pogues are a Celtic punk band from London, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems but the band continued first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals before breaking up in 1996. The band reformed in 2001, and has been playing regularly ever since, most notably on the US East Coast around St Patrick's Day and across the UK and Ireland every December. The group has yet to record any new music and, according to Spider Stacy on Pogues.com, has no inclination to do so.

Their politically-tinged music was informed by MacGowan and Stacy's punk backgrounds, yet used traditional Irish instruments such as the tin whistle, cittern, mandolin and accordion.

The Pogues were founded in Kings Cross, a district of North London, in 1982 as Pogue Mahone--pogue mahone being the Anglicisation of the Irish pog mo thoin, meaning "kiss my arse".

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The Pogues Lyrics

The Pogues - Love You 'till The End Lyrics

I just want to see you
When you're all alone
I just want to catch you if I can
I just want to be there

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The Pogues - The Body of an American Lyrics

The Cadillac stood by the house
And the yanks they were within
And the tinker boys they hissed advice
'Hot-wire her with a pin'

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The Pogues - A Rainy Night In Soho Lyrics

I've been loving you a long time
Down all the years, down all the days
And I've cried for all your troubles
Smiled at your funny little ways

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The Pogues - The Leaving Of Liverpool Lyrics

Farewell to you, my own true love
I am going far, far away
I am bound for California
And I know that I'll return someday

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The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York Lyrics

It was Christmas eve, babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me
Won't see another one

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The Pogues - The Parting Glass Lyrics

Of all the money that e'er I spent
I've spent it in good company
And all the harm that ever I did
Alas, it was to none but me

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The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace With God Lyrics

Well, if I should fall from grace with God
Where no doctor can relieve me
If I'm buried 'neath the sand
Where the Angels won't receive me

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The Pogues - Sayonara Lyrics

Okay, it's time for Sayonara
Go on, Yankee break my heart
There's nothing left for us to say now
Even the best friends, they must part

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The Pogues - The Irish Rover Lyrics

On the 4th of July, 1806
We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork
We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
For the Grand City Hall in New York

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The Pogues - The Sunnyside of The Street Lyrics

Seen the carnival at Rome, had the women, I had the booze
All I can remember now, is little kids without no shoes
So I saw that train and I got on it
With a heart full of hate and a lust for vomit

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The Pogues Discography

The Pogues albums.

  • Rum Sodomy & the Lash - 13/12/2004 (WEA Records/GB)
  • Waiting for Herb - (Chameleon Records/US)
  • Hell's Ditch - (Island Records/US)
  • Rum, Sodomy & the Lash - 08/08/1989 (WEA/GB)
  • Peace and Love - (Island Records/US)
  • If I Should Fall From Grace With God - 01/01/1988 (Stiff Records/GB)
  • Red Roses for Me - (WEA/GB)

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