A Pistol For Paddy Garcia
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A Pistol For Paddy Garcia
Sat Dec 11, 2004 7:42 am
I heard the song, on an old copy of RS&tL, I was wondering what inspired it, if anyone knew. It sounds a bit western. It's really puzzled me, since I first heard it, what really inspired it. It doesn't sound like the usual Irish music; but, none-the-less, it is great.
“An’ this is the last of Brummy,” he said, leaning on his spade and looking away over the tops of the ragged gums on the distant range.
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TheIrishRover - Scaramuccia
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Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:32 pm
I swear I'm no secret agent of Poguetry.com but let me quote from that web again:
This was the original title for the Alex Cox film featuring the Pogues, Elvis Costello, Courtney Love, and Dennis Hopper that subsequently became "Straight to Hell." Here's some words from Jem about the tune that were included in the 2003 release "Jem Finer (of the Pogues).": "I wrote this during the period in which I became obsessed with Sergio Leone!"
This was the original title for the Alex Cox film featuring the Pogues, Elvis Costello, Courtney Love, and Dennis Hopper that subsequently became "Straight to Hell." Here's some words from Jem about the tune that were included in the 2003 release "Jem Finer (of the Pogues).": "I wrote this during the period in which I became obsessed with Sergio Leone!"
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Sat Dec 11, 2004 8:07 pm
Thanks.
“An’ this is the last of Brummy,” he said, leaning on his spade and looking away over the tops of the ragged gums on the distant range.
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Sun Dec 12, 2004 10:02 am
Tá fáilte romhat! 
Pistol For Paddy Garcia is a great tune. By the way, have you heard the Pogues version of Good, Bad and Ugly, that famous western-style instrumental by Ennio Morricone? Totally crazy – but terrific.
Pistol For Paddy Garcia is a great tune. By the way, have you heard the Pogues version of Good, Bad and Ugly, that famous western-style instrumental by Ennio Morricone? Totally crazy – but terrific.
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Pogues doing a version of The good the bad and the ugly
Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:41 am
Where can i get it?
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Re: Pogues doing a version of The good the bad and the ugly
Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:57 am
It's on the original soundtrack to Straight To Hell:trent wrote:Where can i get it?
Amazon.com
It was dropped from the reissue though (Straight to Hell Returns).
“I know all those people that were in the film [...] But that’s when they were young and strong and full of life, you know?”
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Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:11 am
It's also on the CD and cassette of Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, regular and reissue. It's not on the LP, but good luck finding an LP, anyways!
“An’ this is the last of Brummy,” he said, leaning on his spade and looking away over the tops of the ragged gums on the distant range.
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Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:18 am
"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" is on <i>Rum, Sodomy & The Lash</i>?TheIrishRover wrote:It's also on the CD and cassette of Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, regular and reissue.
Umm. No.
Or were you think of "A Pistol for Paddy Garcia"?
“I know all those people that were in the film [...] But that’s when they were young and strong and full of life, you know?”
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Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:33 pm
Paddy Garcia.
“An’ this is the last of Brummy,” he said, leaning on his spade and looking away over the tops of the ragged gums on the distant range.
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Re: A Pistol For Paddy Garcia
Fri Mar 16, 2018 10:33 am
One possibility is that during the Mexican American war, a group of Irish Catholic soldiers saw that Catholics in Mexico were not treated as second rate citizen and they switched sides! They fought along side their Catholic counter parts. In the end, Mexico lost and they were all hanged for treason.
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