What Is Your Favourite Line/Phrase In A Pogues Song??

[Guest]

ohh there are ruder ones than that but I can't remember them now. I do recall Shane regularly singing 'I wanna fuck you, you know it's true!' 'and going in ... between your thighs, oh yeah.'

[slugger]

this was are happy ever after so motherfucker kiss the ground!

[slugger]

rain street is one funny fuckin song,i love the way shane sings about people he knows, places he has passed through, the things he has been through,reading the lyrics to some of his songs is like reading his autobiography,iam glad shanes the way he is, i do not live my life through him,but theres many a screaming hangover from hell thats been eased just knowing shane must have woken up feeling alot worse an got over it!!

[Bottle_of_Smoke]

father mcgreer buys an ice cold beer and a short for father loyola father john's got the clap again he's drinkin' coca-cola

agreed! also "gave my love a goodnight kiss\tried to take a late night piss\toilet moved so again I missed\

in fact - the whole of Rain Street.

[Bottle_of_Smoke]

i whish i could say i just made them up, but they are from a live version from i think the live on rain street bootleg that i got from the FTP

Yes, the lyrics to that song have always been...um.....flexible.

Aha. Well there it is then.

Yeah it's on Streams of Whiskey, though isn't it "I wanna be in between your thighs"?

I bought the cd before I read the sites warning. . . youve got to believe me!

[Simon Maguire]

And you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the yids


(please dont take offense)

but this is the funniest line ever written by shane.

[pogues whistle player]

the whole of tuesday morning

[Eckhard]

the whole of tuesday morning

[Simon Maguire]

We put the hood around his head then we shot the bastard dead.

not the pogues but a cracker from shane and the popes.

[beanajane]

"i could have been someone ... well so could anyone ..."

a put-me-down and a pick-me-up all in the same 10 seconds, brilliantly genius!

[real whistle player]

Fuck off fake pogues whistle player. my favourite pogues lyric is Saw the men coming home from the fair at Shinrone, their hearts in Tipperary wherever they go - spider

[Simon Maguire]

erm...???, theres a fake pogues whistle player, its like a bad crime movie.

[trashcity]

Rainy Night in Soho has some of the best lyrics written by anyone, ever.
I also love
"and if you cut me, dont you think i feel, is this body clay, is this heart made of steel?"

[Guest]

The best overall lyric, "Rainy Night" apart, is "The Bottle Of Smoke".

I have to agree with Mr. Chevron
Rainy night in Soho has to be one of the best songs of all time.
You´re the meassure of my dreams being one of my favourite lines...
but The bottle of smoke has got me fascinated right now. that song has so many fucking kick ass brilliant lines!

the day being clear the sky being bright
it came up on the left like a streak of light
like a drunken fuck on a saturday night
up came the bottle of smoke

or

Twenty fucking five to one
my gambling days are done

or

Screaming springers and stoppers
And call out coppers
But the money still gleams in my hand like a light

or

Fuck the yanks
And drink their wives
The moon is clear
The sky is bright
I’m happy as the horses shite
Up came the bottle of smoke

btw, cheers everybody, I´m new here.

and I´m gonna see the pogues live in Spain in a month! yaay!

[trev]

'i drank ten pints of beer and i cursed all the people there, i wish that all this rain would stop falling down on me!'

or

'..we took him out the back and we broke his fucking balls..'

in fact, the entirety of boys from the county hell is pretty fantastic