The Pogues Lyrics And Chords
Pogues formed in 1982 and split up as a band in 1996 with the departure of Shane MacGowan, Shane says about the split that the band were going down a different route musically that he wanted to go, they were drifting away from the Irish style of playing music and doing more pop stuff, Shane had already done the pop stuff with The Nips and went as far as they could go. The Pogues reformed a few years ago and mostly do Christmas gigs in Ireland and Britain and the occasional festival, when asked why the band reformed Shane said it was for the money. I doubt if that was the real reason as Shane would sing at the drop of a hat, as Christy Moore says, 'When You Get The Ballad Bug It Never Leaves You'.
Bono from U2 said that Shane MacGowan was one of the best songwriters in the last 100 years, very high praise from the front man of the greatest rock band in the world. All the songs in this Pogues section are in chordpro format.
Bono from U2 said that Shane MacGowan was one of the best songwriters in the last 100 years, very high praise from the front man of the greatest rock band in the world. All the songs in this Pogues section are in chordpro format.
Dirty Old Town
A Pair Of Brown Eyes
A Rainy Night In Soho
The Birmingham Six
The Broad Majestic Shannon
Billy's Bones
The Body Of An American
The Boys From The Co. Hell
Fairytale Of New York
Greenland Whale Fisheries
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Johnny Come Lately
Kitty
Lullaby Of London
Love You Till The End
Lorelei
White City
A Pair Of Brown Eyes
A Rainy Night In Soho
The Birmingham Six
The Broad Majestic Shannon
Billy's Bones
The Body Of An American
The Boys From The Co. Hell
Fairytale Of New York
Greenland Whale Fisheries
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Johnny Come Lately
Kitty
Lullaby Of London
Love You Till The End
Lorelei
White City
Young Ned Of The Hill
The Irish Rover
Nancy Whiskey
Sally McLennane
The Snake With Eyes Of Garnet
Paddy Rolling Stone
The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
Streams Of Whiskey
Thousands Are Sailing
The Bastard Landlord
The Song With No Name
The Limerick Rake
Tomorrow Belongs To Me
The Irish Rover
Nancy Whiskey
Sally McLennane
The Snake With Eyes Of Garnet
Paddy Rolling Stone
The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
Streams Of Whiskey
Thousands Are Sailing
The Bastard Landlord
The Song With No Name
The Limerick Rake
Tomorrow Belongs To Me
Below is the list of songs that are in the ebooks. This is the largest collection of tin whistle sheet music songs ever put together.[About 800 songs ]
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All of the songs have been made as easy to play as was possible.
The price of this ebook is €7.50 and it will be emailed to you after payment, please be patient.
The Pogues happened as a completely organic thing. We had all known each other for ages. Once The Nips broke up, I was arranging a gig for The Millwall Chainsaws at The Tombridge Club in Cromer Street. The Chainsaws were Spider's band.The band who mutated into The New Republicans who mutated into The Pogues. Me and Jim went busking a lot which was really a good way to get the raw original set list together at Covent Garden which they had totally f,,,,, up with their snotty mall, they were holding auditions to decide who could busk in the market, so me and Jim turned up one morning at ten on a weekday as the shops were just opening for the audition. There was only one person around and he looked like one of the group, a genuine Paddy in a suit getting pissed, exactly the kind of guy they didn't want in the new Covent Garden. A real asshole auditioned us, and he clearly didn't like us, but this other guy started shouting out requests and we knew a lot of the tunes. We offered to do Carrickfergus [ lyrics ] and he said yeah Carrickfergus, I practically built the place , that finished us off. That guy loved us but he didn't count us as a person in these people's eyes, that and the fact I was holding a can of beer at ten in the morning. We were good, we always made lots of money on the tubes but we didn't get the licence to busk. I really wish I had a film camera with me because it would have made a great video.
Ollie from The Chainsaws became the new drummer in The New Republicans and it was he who had the idea of doing Irish rebel songs in a really loud obnoxious way.
We were in the kitchen of the squat one day and I was just banging around on the guitar. We all knew loads of those songs like ''Paddy On The Railway'' and The Rising Of The Moon [ lyrics ] and Kitty.
Our first gig as The New Republicans was me Spider Matt Jacobson Ollie Watts and John Golding. We all knew Andrew and he was the first drummer we tried out but he was in The Operation and we weren't getting it together fast enough.
That first gig was at Club Futura , Richard Strange's club, where we used to go every week. It was an affordable new music venue. Soft Cell had played the week before us, just before ''Tainted Love'' came out. John and a few others came with us to the gig and a buzz started going around about it because it all ended rather abruptly. There were 15 squaddies in the audience, just back from Northern Ireland. I think they were actually enjoying it at first, we were always bumping into squaddies. They had fish and chips with them which was against the rules but who's going to stop 15 squaddies with fish and chips. Anyway I think we played something like The Patriot Game [ lyrics ] and that might have been when they pelted us with the chips. It wasn't dangerous or anything, they weren't going to throw full cans of beer at us.
I didn't mind being hit with chips, some of us were actually eating them, but it was a very time and the Landlord got paranoid being Irish. We had nearly finished the set but I think the squaddies were getting a bit rowdy and according to Jim and Richard Strange who tried to reason with the Landlord he said ''I've got nothing against the English but I don't need that kind of heat '' . I can understand his position. So we got the plug pulled on us and we had to leave the back way in case they jumped us which would have been great because there was more of us than them.
Then we were out having a drink one night at the Pindar of Wakefield, me, Jim, Spider, Ollie and a guy called Justin and a woman who I can't remember her name. They used to put on gigs there and I used to work for them helping the bands on with their gear. Then we actually got booked to play there and I said I could take the money as well as playing. That went on for ages, me just getting out of the crowd and getting on stage. Darrel was around at this stage. We had two drivers, him and Rick. So I just carried on working at the gigs. Stan Brennan was putting on and working at the record shop and then we would play on Monday's at the Pindar of Wakefield.
We were in the kitchen of the squat one day and I was just banging around on the guitar. We all knew loads of those songs like ''Paddy On The Railway'' and The Rising Of The Moon [ lyrics ] and Kitty.
Our first gig as The New Republicans was me Spider Matt Jacobson Ollie Watts and John Golding. We all knew Andrew and he was the first drummer we tried out but he was in The Operation and we weren't getting it together fast enough.
That first gig was at Club Futura , Richard Strange's club, where we used to go every week. It was an affordable new music venue. Soft Cell had played the week before us, just before ''Tainted Love'' came out. John and a few others came with us to the gig and a buzz started going around about it because it all ended rather abruptly. There were 15 squaddies in the audience, just back from Northern Ireland. I think they were actually enjoying it at first, we were always bumping into squaddies. They had fish and chips with them which was against the rules but who's going to stop 15 squaddies with fish and chips. Anyway I think we played something like The Patriot Game [ lyrics ] and that might have been when they pelted us with the chips. It wasn't dangerous or anything, they weren't going to throw full cans of beer at us.
I didn't mind being hit with chips, some of us were actually eating them, but it was a very time and the Landlord got paranoid being Irish. We had nearly finished the set but I think the squaddies were getting a bit rowdy and according to Jim and Richard Strange who tried to reason with the Landlord he said ''I've got nothing against the English but I don't need that kind of heat '' . I can understand his position. So we got the plug pulled on us and we had to leave the back way in case they jumped us which would have been great because there was more of us than them.
Then we were out having a drink one night at the Pindar of Wakefield, me, Jim, Spider, Ollie and a guy called Justin and a woman who I can't remember her name. They used to put on gigs there and I used to work for them helping the bands on with their gear. Then we actually got booked to play there and I said I could take the money as well as playing. That went on for ages, me just getting out of the crowd and getting on stage. Darrel was around at this stage. We had two drivers, him and Rick. So I just carried on working at the gigs. Stan Brennan was putting on and working at the record shop and then we would play on Monday's at the Pindar of Wakefield.
Interview with Shane MacGowan of The Pogues
ladies and gentlemen Shane MacGowan helps off yeah that's it make yourself a home can you believe they put a glass of water for you um yes try it see what you think what is it the baby's saying they are even it's the itv this one okay
we've got that far it's war i know I told you it was water you mean this isn't water that's that's just a little concussion on my own okay i can smell it from there actually so how are you fine yeah but whenever i say to guess how are you usually it's just a casual but i really
want to know how you are um oh we're in excellent health news there's a bit of weight but then that we all i thought i thought the pokes were all done with but you're back yeah we don't we've done it a couple of times before we're not in such a big scale skylight um and there's a there's a live album coming out there is yeah a lot of live album of the post
reunion yeah yeah so the gigs are in this December yeah yeah yeah yeah it's a uh London Manchester very own Glasgow every show in England you can think of it are you mates with the Pogues because they they kick you out didn't they 91.
I was raised for the Pogues for years before we ever joined all up and together in one band yeah yeah yeah but after they threw you out that must have made things a bit difficult yeah yeah yeah i should i see it i think they were hating my guts but as almost threw me
out I mean that's what usually means yeah but I mean I'd been screaming to get out of bloody things for a while you know but i mean it but it it just ran its courage for the time being it ended in Japan didn't it I had you you fell out of a I fell out to try you yeah I mean like you know which is three hours like then bringing you around sake
to sake out to sake of the sake of turkey but anyhow I fell like from the top stop the train and they're very you know the safety conscious and everything but so I managed to break my head open on the platform yeah yeah and uh well it's just from our sure head you know yeah literally yeah and uh
it wasn't moving the plane the train rather he didn't fall off a plane it's a bit harsh for sacking a man for falling off a train well it wasn't the first incident of that nation you surprised me you live in Ireland now is that right yeah we're starting out yeah yeah uh is it Tipperary you live yeah north area one thing i have to ask you is that
i understand you can't smoke now in pubs and public places in Ireland well it's illegal to smoke are you telling me you're ignoring the ban basically if you make it low in orange right yeah yeah and it isn't like uh and particularly if it's a stupid law yeah yeah yeah right yeah so like uh like the the uh anti-speeding and cars laws and all that yeah have had a
remarkable success rate you know what I mean because everybody wants to stop every killing everybody else on the road it's like right and it's not so much drunk and driving it's driving so fast when you're drunk yeah not even the non-smokers in Ireland as a general rule approve of of the buy now I want to run something by
your show you haven't made a studio album for seven years no now the last one was an absolute cracker i thought that was croco gold with with you and the popes yeah yeah yeah when's the next album going to come out when's Shane MacGowan going to start the production line again at the moment like uh
you know I'm taking I'm only i'm 47 at Christmas right okay yeah so like uh you know and i was you know I mean like uh when the pog started making money yeah like we reckoned like we'd all be allowed I'd be out a bit by the time I'm staring you know and we'd all be rich you know what I mean we are certainly out of it I mean now the game yeah
retired sammy retired whatever yeah do you ever think people want you to be drunk and wrecked I don't I couldn't give a where people want me to be you know I'm entertainer you know i mean like like people want me to get out on that stage and like blast it out you know I mean they get involved in it and it's
it's an audience like a good gig is where the audience love it yeah yeah but like the only bad gig is like it doesn't matter what kind of crap you play yeah right I mean obviously you try you know you you give it your best right yeah but you know all sorts of things can go wrong yeah and like uh but I'm like a train what you can fall under a train on the way
again yeah exactly for instance like unlike you know a refrigerator yeah yeah like like what's the question i think what I'm trying to say is do you feel that you have to live up to the image of the heart i was uh not not to say that I've got any answers you know but i think anybody is wrong and telling
you what you should be doing or what you ought to be doing or like you know you're just like have you ever thought about quitting and cleaning up and stuff frequently yeah yeah how long do you think about it for um i think about it every every time there's a little bit of a debt you know
i mean but let's face it I've got a chance life you know like it's like yeah I'm a lucky bastard you know what i mean right you know and like uh you know I mean but i mean like uh yeah i mean i don't intend to stop playing music until i die you know and i don't intend to die for a long time yeah well
that's going to be a big news story well I mean for the last 25 years I supposed to be dead in six months you know I'm like you're like the Pope it's like the pope everyone says he's gonna die any minute and he's still battling on it's really oh yeah yeah I think it's the catholic faith that keeps them going well I reckon it's just it's it's just some past all these arsenals I'll tell
you saying you're gonna be dead in six months you know I mean it tends to give you an incentive not to be you know so you can monetize grades you know yeah I think last six months but yeah I wonder if the pope thinks that me and you are inextricably linked together and I'll tell you what it is not bad sir well yes but
whenever they have these worst celebrity teeth right I'm always in the top three are you that's no noise yeah i know you are I can't knock you off the top Shane I've tried everything I don't think mine are that bad but I'm always me I give a really quick solution but I've actually thought now you're going
to say I'm letting the side down I've actually thought recently my dentist was saying i could do all these in and make him look quite nice he could cap them all because at the moment they're a bit they stuck there and there's lots yeah but people can't see them yeah yeah but they might like you know the reason that I or when they're worse than yours is because
they're all at the front yeah yeah yeah but so I'm thinking of having a only one one stuck in there one goal one day yeah but i tried look at these shots someone loaned me these and this is what I would look like with a good one girl this is this is what we're supposed to look like
in show business you never smile I'm putting them straight on ebay so have you got any ambitions left shay um um you know this is this is you know there's not some of that yeah yeah but uh but I'd like to patch up i had a
20-year relationship with a with a young lady you know and like um I'd like to patch down because it's going to skew for really it's going to scare before but not you know better from there this is Victoria yes right yeah and is there any chance here sorting it out I help you meant me a bit.
well maybe she's watching and it's good to know that you still love her but she knows that she knows that must be tough going out with a hard drinking man though well when I first thinking when i wonder if she's drinking double whiskey and double wishes soldiers you know what I mean you know so like it's not like she doesn't understand no well it's always good to have something
in common it's been really good talking to you I hope you make that studio album because I look forward to hearing it ladies and gentlemen the one and only Shane MacGowan good on you Mike.
ladies and gentlemen Shane MacGowan helps off yeah that's it make yourself a home can you believe they put a glass of water for you um yes try it see what you think what is it the baby's saying they are even it's the itv this one okay
we've got that far it's war i know I told you it was water you mean this isn't water that's that's just a little concussion on my own okay i can smell it from there actually so how are you fine yeah but whenever i say to guess how are you usually it's just a casual but i really
want to know how you are um oh we're in excellent health news there's a bit of weight but then that we all i thought i thought the pokes were all done with but you're back yeah we don't we've done it a couple of times before we're not in such a big scale skylight um and there's a there's a live album coming out there is yeah a lot of live album of the post
reunion yeah yeah so the gigs are in this December yeah yeah yeah yeah it's a uh London Manchester very own Glasgow every show in England you can think of it are you mates with the Pogues because they they kick you out didn't they 91.
I was raised for the Pogues for years before we ever joined all up and together in one band yeah yeah yeah but after they threw you out that must have made things a bit difficult yeah yeah yeah i should i see it i think they were hating my guts but as almost threw me
out I mean that's what usually means yeah but I mean I'd been screaming to get out of bloody things for a while you know but i mean it but it it just ran its courage for the time being it ended in Japan didn't it I had you you fell out of a I fell out to try you yeah I mean like you know which is three hours like then bringing you around sake
to sake out to sake of the sake of turkey but anyhow I fell like from the top stop the train and they're very you know the safety conscious and everything but so I managed to break my head open on the platform yeah yeah and uh well it's just from our sure head you know yeah literally yeah and uh
it wasn't moving the plane the train rather he didn't fall off a plane it's a bit harsh for sacking a man for falling off a train well it wasn't the first incident of that nation you surprised me you live in Ireland now is that right yeah we're starting out yeah yeah uh is it Tipperary you live yeah north area one thing i have to ask you is that
i understand you can't smoke now in pubs and public places in Ireland well it's illegal to smoke are you telling me you're ignoring the ban basically if you make it low in orange right yeah yeah and it isn't like uh and particularly if it's a stupid law yeah yeah yeah right yeah so like uh like the the uh anti-speeding and cars laws and all that yeah have had a
remarkable success rate you know what I mean because everybody wants to stop every killing everybody else on the road it's like right and it's not so much drunk and driving it's driving so fast when you're drunk yeah not even the non-smokers in Ireland as a general rule approve of of the buy now I want to run something by
your show you haven't made a studio album for seven years no now the last one was an absolute cracker i thought that was croco gold with with you and the popes yeah yeah yeah when's the next album going to come out when's Shane MacGowan going to start the production line again at the moment like uh
you know I'm taking I'm only i'm 47 at Christmas right okay yeah so like uh you know and i was you know I mean like uh when the pog started making money yeah like we reckoned like we'd all be allowed I'd be out a bit by the time I'm staring you know and we'd all be rich you know what I mean we are certainly out of it I mean now the game yeah
retired sammy retired whatever yeah do you ever think people want you to be drunk and wrecked I don't I couldn't give a where people want me to be you know I'm entertainer you know i mean like like people want me to get out on that stage and like blast it out you know I mean they get involved in it and it's
it's an audience like a good gig is where the audience love it yeah yeah but like the only bad gig is like it doesn't matter what kind of crap you play yeah right I mean obviously you try you know you you give it your best right yeah but you know all sorts of things can go wrong yeah and like uh but I'm like a train what you can fall under a train on the way
again yeah exactly for instance like unlike you know a refrigerator yeah yeah like like what's the question i think what I'm trying to say is do you feel that you have to live up to the image of the heart i was uh not not to say that I've got any answers you know but i think anybody is wrong and telling
you what you should be doing or what you ought to be doing or like you know you're just like have you ever thought about quitting and cleaning up and stuff frequently yeah yeah how long do you think about it for um i think about it every every time there's a little bit of a debt you know
i mean but let's face it I've got a chance life you know like it's like yeah I'm a lucky bastard you know what i mean right you know and like uh you know I mean but i mean like uh yeah i mean i don't intend to stop playing music until i die you know and i don't intend to die for a long time yeah well
that's going to be a big news story well I mean for the last 25 years I supposed to be dead in six months you know I'm like you're like the Pope it's like the pope everyone says he's gonna die any minute and he's still battling on it's really oh yeah yeah I think it's the catholic faith that keeps them going well I reckon it's just it's it's just some past all these arsenals I'll tell
you saying you're gonna be dead in six months you know I mean it tends to give you an incentive not to be you know so you can monetize grades you know yeah I think last six months but yeah I wonder if the pope thinks that me and you are inextricably linked together and I'll tell you what it is not bad sir well yes but
whenever they have these worst celebrity teeth right I'm always in the top three are you that's no noise yeah i know you are I can't knock you off the top Shane I've tried everything I don't think mine are that bad but I'm always me I give a really quick solution but I've actually thought now you're going
to say I'm letting the side down I've actually thought recently my dentist was saying i could do all these in and make him look quite nice he could cap them all because at the moment they're a bit they stuck there and there's lots yeah but people can't see them yeah yeah but they might like you know the reason that I or when they're worse than yours is because
they're all at the front yeah yeah yeah but so I'm thinking of having a only one one stuck in there one goal one day yeah but i tried look at these shots someone loaned me these and this is what I would look like with a good one girl this is this is what we're supposed to look like
in show business you never smile I'm putting them straight on ebay so have you got any ambitions left shay um um you know this is this is you know there's not some of that yeah yeah but uh but I'd like to patch up i had a
20-year relationship with a with a young lady you know and like um I'd like to patch down because it's going to skew for really it's going to scare before but not you know better from there this is Victoria yes right yeah and is there any chance here sorting it out I help you meant me a bit.
well maybe she's watching and it's good to know that you still love her but she knows that she knows that must be tough going out with a hard drinking man though well when I first thinking when i wonder if she's drinking double whiskey and double wishes soldiers you know what I mean you know so like it's not like she doesn't understand no well it's always good to have something
in common it's been really good talking to you I hope you make that studio album because I look forward to hearing it ladies and gentlemen the one and only Shane MacGowan good on you Mike.
Repeal of the licensing laws banjo / mandolin tab by the Pogues
The battle of Brisbane tab
The Dingle Regatta tab
The Pogues Original
