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Track: Sally MacLennane
Artist: The Pogues
Album: Rum Sodomy & The Lash (Expanded Edition)

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Name: The Pogues
Spotify Genres: celtic punk, celtic rock, christmas, folk punk, celtic
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The Pogues are an Irish-British Celtic punk / folk band founded as [a=Pogue Mahone] ("kiss my arse" in Gaelic) in London in the early 1980s. Founder & front man [a=Shane MacGowan] was fired in 1991, going on to form [a=Shane MacGowan And The Popes]. The band continued, with some lineup changes (including the temporary addition of [a=Joe Strummer]), until 1996. The group reformed in 2001, and played their final show in August 2014, shortly after the death by cancer of [a=Philip Chevron] on 8 October 2013. [a=Darryl Hunt] died on 8 August 2022, and MacGowan passed away on 30 November 2023. [a=Spider Stacy], [a=James Fearnley], and [a=Jem Finer] reconvened under The Pogues' name, with a long list of special guests, for a series of shows in 2024 & 2025 curated by Stacy to celebrate the 40th anniversaries of [Link] and [Link].

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Release: The Pogues - Sally MacLennane
Year: 1985
Genres: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Styles: Folk Rock, Alternative Rock, Punk, Celtic

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Well Jimmy played harmonica in the pub where I was born
He played it from the night time to the peaceful early morn
He soothed the souls of psychos and the men who had the horn
And they all looked very happy in the morning
Now Jimmy didn't like his place in this world of ours
Where the elephant man broke strong men's necks
When he'd had too many Powers
So sad to see the grieving of the people that he's leaving
And he took the road for God knows in the morning

We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing him again
(Far away) sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey 'cause I'm going far away (far away)
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer and to Sally MacLennane

The years passed by the times had changed I grew to be a man
I learned to love the virtues of sweet Sally MacLennane
I took the jeers and drank the beers and crawled back home at dawn
And ended up a barman in the morning

I played the pump and took the hump and watered whiskey down
I talked of whores and horses to the men who drank the brown
I heard them say that Jimmy's making money far away
And some people left for heaven without warning

We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing him again
(Far away) sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey 'cause I'm going far away (far away)
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer and to Sally MacLennane

When Jimmy came back home he was surprised that they were gone
He asked me all the details of the train that they went on
Some people they are scared to croak but Jimmy drank until he choked
And he took the road for heaven in the morning

We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing him again
(Far away) sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey 'cause I'm going far away (far away)
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer and to Sally MacLennane