Added: 4 years ago
From: irishman871
Views: 156,548
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:

All Comments (185)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • One of the best Pogues songs. Thanks for uploading.

  • oi currymelawd! england used the longbow as its primary for over 200 years including about 70 years after the invention of firearms. the first of which was fired at agincourt well into the days of empire, so. whats that about all the poor defenceless countries england invaded? plus the fact that fucking ireland would only be the territory of some other dominant nation. the reality is that despite englands wrong doings it is in fact the protector of ireland. oh and i am in fact of irish descent.

  • @mikeyseed234 True as that may be, I still feel like I should tell You to fuck off.

  • Great song.... People should stop dissing things and appriciate the songs...

  • currymelawd so im half irish half english so im half a cunt , guess its people like me that makes pricks like you stand to attention

  • undoubtable the best thing ever

  • drinking to my ancestors music

  • My dad would play the Pogues for me and my brothers when we were little and we didn't understand a word of it.. this was our fave though. :3

  • @Ramonajunie3 Same here!

  • @Ramonajunie3 I had a similar experience as a kid, except the band was The Ramones. A drink to all the dads who taught their kids about proper music?

  • @Zelinskas9 Awesome! I love The Ramones~

  • you r a fool !! yes there tunes are good but think of you own culture and the tunes we put out !! dont be a prick and think more of the emeraled isle !! england is the greatest country in the world and if you dont think so then fuck off to ireland and fucking struggle you fucking wanker !! i dont hate the irish but i hate cunts like you !! how old r you ? i love the pouges but im proud to be where i come from !! u mate r one word !PRICK ! get it together !! fool !!

  • @bristolcityifcation listen here ya cunt. just fuck off and invade some other country will ya. england is full of a load a scummy cunts like yourself that think yous are the shit. your a shower of murderous bastards that couldnt stay in there own country. if you all love england so much why did you go and invade half of the fucking world.? yee were the big men hiding behind your guns while the poor cunts yous invaded only had bows and arrows or hurleys. im proud to be irish so fuck off.

  • @currymelawd if you define yourself by the evils that have been done against you, you will live the life your in the dark.

  • @bristolcityifcation fucking hell man chill out, he was just sharing his love for Ireland, no need to go off on one

  • Why was i born English, when across the irish sea is a land beatiful and green, with great songs, great bars and even better women. :'(

  • eggsbaconeggsbaconeggsbaconegg­sbaconeggsbaconeggsbaconeggsba­coneggsbaconeggsbaconeggsbacon­eggsbaconeggsbacon

  • I like your video.

  • i remember walking home through a field, pissed as fuck with this on my phone, i swear the song itself made it harder to stand up

  • They put us on guest list in Kilmarnock and Edinburgh 87 got drunk with Shane saw Elvis Costello with Cait Orierdan happy days man happy days.First time i saw them Glastonbury mid 80s they got covered in mud,Shane took it well.

  • Great song.

  • im leading a crusade against the 5 people who clearly dont worship the pogues as the god they are

  • @XenocrystSc

    Hussah

  • Reminds me of the day I left for Iraq. Great song.

  • The Pogues lyrics are top notch, punchy witty and brilliant. So hard to remember though when singing Shane is a genius

  • so totally addicted to the Pogues!!!!! AWESOME!! Irish to the bone.....my Grampy taught us we IRISH-CATHOLIC-AMERICANS in that order. He sung the songs, danced the jigs and taught us what it meant to be Irish was to never forget, the hell we endured and why we landed so far from home.

  • God Bless Shane and the Pogues!

  • Wish I was irish:P

  • @Lol1Fag I bet the pogues wish they were Irish too..;)

  • Religion is a crock of shit! But this is a great tune! Takes me back to the boys and beer and girls!

  • need to brainwash 5 people lol

  • Frank Ryan mentioned in this song fought with the IRA in the War of Independence, he went on to fight in the Spanish civil war with the 15th International Brigade. He is mentioned in Christy Moore's classic, ''Viva La Quinta Brigada''

  • @tirnaog09 shane knows his shit, much more to his stuff than people giv him credit for

  • @thomtraubert12 , Spot on M8. Met the Great man in the Brazen Head pub in Glasgow some years back, even gave us all a song or two! He looked a bit unwell and I hope he sorts his lifestyle out so we can all enjoy his stuff for years to come. Respect to you btw, you know your shit too!

  • "They'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground,

    but you'll stick your head back out and shout we'll have another round!"

    I hope I do that at my funeral & scare everyone shitless :0)

  • kill everyone even me. god can sort us out later

  • Just get pissed and enjoy!

  • shut up ye bunch a arseholes

  • I would love to get Shane MacGowan in here to stomp the heads of all of you who are bitching at each other politically.

  • how did this turn to nazis and japanese americans??? I agree with superfans88 just enjoy the song

  • @mahony316 what about Eskimos ?

  • Why does every comment on almost every song have to eventually turn political or religious (or both)? Can't you just listen and comment on the song? Can’t you just enjoy the music and talk about politics and religion somewhere else?

  • No one who uses the word "Zionist" can ever be taken seriously.

  • @jamesrkunz its called HASBARA, FUCKING LOOK IT UP

  • @jamesrkunz Even Zionists?

  • Except for the fact that he himself was a "Yid," who got together with a bunch of Swedish stevadors to kick the asses of bikers (instead of blackshirts) who were hastling a gay man, this song could just as easily be about me late husband. I miss the smelly old bastard. There will never EVER be another man like him.

  • Comment removed

  • shane was IRISH. happened to be born in england but def was an IRISHMAN.

  • Shane was great! He was English with Irish descent! But the important thing is he looks a state but had a great time!

  • I hate America in general...they frown upon the Germans for their death camps and concentration camps in WWII yet they themselves did it after the attack on pearl harbor to anyone who even LOOKED Japanese...

  • @DwayneRydell Im an American and I dont believe half of the propaganda spread about Germany and Hitler was a genuis and excellant speaker fuck propaganda!

  • @DwayneRydell yeah i know we put Japanese in camps (all westcost states except HI) but there were also gremans and italians too but we didnt KILL them because we thought we were better than them LOOKED at HISTORY

  • @naughton101 . The fact that white America put Japanaese Americans into camps but not white German and Italian Americans is somethong America is to be proud of?

  • @Uncle99B no im saying AMERICA did put german americans and italian american in camps and Ireland would also put german pilots in camps but not allied pilots does that make Ireland just as bad as german. No. how many people did in intermant camps idk the number but ill bet my life it is less than 6million

  • @naughton101 . The USA did NOT put German and Italian Americans into concentration camps -- only Japanese Americans. 6 million people did not die in Nazi work camps...that is the total number of Jews we are told dies in WWII. Of course 60 million people died in WWII -- the other 54 million apparently are not as important as the 6 million Jews,

  • @Uncle99B Under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, the United States government detained and interned over 11,000 German citizens at the start of World War II. In many cases, the families of the internees were allowed to remain together at internment camps in the U.S. In other cases, families were separated. Limited due process was allowed for those arrested and detained. given not as many as the japs but still. 54 million died mostly in USSR and China from NAZI and JAPS

  • @naughton101 . 11,000 German citizens were detained. Not the millions of Americans of German ancestry. Meanwhile, all Americans of Japanese ancestry were thrown into camps; and I do mean all. Do you not see the difference? The "Japs". I see I have encountered yet another in a long line of racist Zionist dupes. I, and many other Americans, are sick and tired of you guys. 80 million Egyptians are trying to gain freedom and all we hear is how it will affect a few million Isralelis. Disgusting

  • @Uncle99B i said Japs because i was running out of room to type. and im not Jewish im an Irish American from the south side of Chicago. now i see i encounter a NAZI because of how eager you were to bring up Isralel my guess is you are most likely a piece of white trash so just stop defending the nazi and dont even try to compare the United States of America to fucking NAZI germany

  • @naughton101. You twice used the term "Japs" so you are an effin liar. You don't have to be Jewish to be a sucker for Zionist propagnda. Chicago is the home of the Pritzker Zionist crime family and you are obviously a racist and so are quite susceptible. If you want to pretend my calling you on twice using the racist term "Japs" or my clarifying your misleading statements on the incarceration of Americans in WWII makes me a Nazi you can do so -- but there is no logical connection.

  • @naughton101 Depends which part of Ireland you're speaking about.

  • @DwayneRydell LoL. You compare the German death camps to the internment camps on the west coast during the war? No doubt that was a wrong move but 1) not even our worst move during the war and 2) WTF, there is literally no comparison.

    No one frowns upon Germany harder than Germans for the atrocities committed then but that's not really why you hate America.. it really can't be. You need to sit back, enjoy the cleanliness and have a beer. It seems you have some hangups you need to move past.

  • @einescheisse you're right, that's not why I hate America, I hate America because they flash their religion in everyone's faces no matter where they look..."under god" in the pledge of allegiance? WTF??? shut up about "god" that's all I'm saying...I will also admit that you're right about one more thing, I do need some more booze...

  • @DwayneRydell

    You and me both, man. You and me both. You want to see something funny, come over and tour through the south where that shit's everywhere. Kinda scarey sometimes.

  • @einescheisse . How about dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The carpet bombing of Dresden?

  • @Uncle99B Yeah, no shit, see point number 1 in my post. I just found it odd that when hating on American actions during WWII, he'd pick and compare rounding up Asians (shit decision as well, not arguing that point) to the German work camps when there was so much other crazy shit done. He agreed that it was a little extreme of a comparison.

  • @einescheisse . The American concentration camps were not much different than the Nazi work camps in Germany. You may be confusing the work camps in Germany with the death camps in Poland. You really ought to be on surer ground before being arrogant -- or maybe you are just overly defensive.

  • song

    

  • YES!

  • What's this song about?

  • @hanshotfirst1138 its about an irish anti-fascist who went around europe fightin for freedom, judging from the lyrics. Cúchulainn is a mythical irish hero

  • its a song not a bad song but fuck me grow up its just afucking song

  • check out the Cú Chualainn? vid also - very funky & cute!!

  • I had a friend who listens to Mcfly and thinks Shane Magowan isnt a great song writter.

  • How can anyone actually dislike this. Easily the greatest song of all time.

  • I can see this song in Pirates of the Carribean

  • I have 4 new people to hate...

  • so fucking proud to be irish

  • @ledzepp423 you fucking should be. be grateful you werent born an englishman. i'd give all the hairs on my head to be irish, your people have the best of the four greatest things in the world - music, scenery, women and booze!

  • @Whatsyerpoison1

    You are one of the few englishmen i now like!

    Éirinn go Brách

  • @ledzepp423 My parents told me I am French, English, German, and Dutch...but, I really tend to think that there is some Irish in there...gotta love it!

  • @ledzepp423 Why?

  • yeeahahahahaa

  • @mastermarf, its called: lyricist. Us Irish are daft bitches, eh?

  • If you wanna turn kids off drugs and drinking, show them a picture of Shane MacGowan. If you want to turn them onto drugs by showing them how it can make you one of the best songwriters ever, let them listen to his music.

  • This beats the crap out of lace curtain 'mille ceadh failte' illusions of what it means to be Irish. One of the best bands ever. I can see them all going on a cattle raid and coming back bloody but ready for the next beer. LOL!

  • this song rawx.

    period.

  • bloody brillyant

    

  • gddmn right is good to be irish

  • I love the general 'fuck it' attitude of this song.

    Piss off Flogging Molly, this is how it's done!!

  • @joeisaflyingfish Irish drinking songs are the original "fuck it" songs. Generally a barfight comes afterwards. Anything else is a cheap imitation. Even worse if there ain't a fight afterwards. God I love being Irish.

  • @joeisaflyingfish Lmao, I agree. 100%.

  • So many arguments on Pogues links over whether MacGowan is Irish or English... Does it matter a fuck? He's a genius that the people of London and Ireland can rejoice in and take pride in together. Cut out the politics, as Elvis Costello said "it's what's on the fucking record that counts."

  • Good stuff!

  • whats shane up to these days?

  • @optics05

    Hopefully not drinking as much , great tallent

  • theres a fucking argument about everything in all pogues vids about a bunch of shit that doesnt matter its music listen to it who gives a fuck were anyones from

  • @piefaceheadman -Shane's parents, from Co. Tipperary in Ireland, were visiting relatives in England when Shane was born kicking and screaming on christmas day. Three months later the family, with Shane obviously, went home to Tipp where he lived until at six years old the family moved to England. He now lives at home in Ireland. Shane is Irish. Period. It's just he chose to be born when his mother and father were travelling abroad. The family home was and is, in Tipperary.

  • @SuperDsweeney I wholeheartedly agree with ya, but you got to recognize the principles of jus solis and what the others are arguing, plus Shane did move to London in his teenage years. Besides, from Tipp to England is a long way ;)... ah forget that, Shane's Irish first and whatever else second

  • @piefaceheadman Fuck yeah!

  • Brilliant, simply timeless. This song have bpm. God bless you Shane!

  • where are u from weather?

  • this song would fit in with a pirates of the carribean fight scene

  • i lub this song

  • kilcullen kildare long livee x

  • @waaeaa :75% of rapists in Ireland are Irish then! What's your fuckin' point?100% of IRA bombers are/were murderers.I'm not on about killing British soldiers,they're fair game.I'm talking about innocent civilians that have been killed,& I am not naive enough to not know that innocent Irish civilians have been killed by the British forces.Ireland for the Irish!

  • You Racist piece of shite! My grandfather shot fascists!

  • mcormack and ritchard tober

  • Richard Tauber!

  • Richard Talber

  • I like the pougues, I like Cu Chulainn ....i appreciate ireland is serious about catholisism, but i heard one to many a line about the monotheism for a song about a man who (if i'm not wrong) lived before Abraham.

    And yet ....I still like it. 8)

    I wonder if Cu Chulainn himself would be knees up; ale down for this little diddy?

  • Irish times, down in old Donegal, i'll tell ya, they was a good craic and that's no joke. FISTING A GO-GO.

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

  • never surrender !!!!!

  • great post ty muchley

  • shane's one fuckin' genius

  • @Froddster No he's a fucking drunk

  • @Sita570

    and ur fucking stupid...

    he's one of the best lyricwriter of this century...

  • Has anybody ever read the cattle raid of cooley? Cuchulainn is the main character in the celtic story.

  • they play in liverpool on wednesday 15th and I cant wait!!!!!!!

  • In my opinion, the pogues were the band who helped my ancestors music to survive the 20th century (let alone the 80's!). If it's about whiskey, fighting, or history it's cool in my book. Oi!

  • Though I´m not irish, I think this is a part of european culture that has to survive a few centuries more!

  • GET OUT OF HERE RACIST!

  • Ok, maybe i´m a little bit retarded or so, but where is the racism in my statement???

  • @Leggesamasch ignore the troll, i am irish and i agree with you

  • im wit ya m8

  • a Blackshirt was a member of the Italian fascist party, and the yidds are slang for Yiddish, which is a Jewish language.

  • Samadin, you either replied to the wrong comment, or you're a real eejit.

  • Fuckin' eejit I think mate!

  • @timothyxmcveigh

    Shane says it's about drinking, fighting, and fucking - not history!

  • @Shtove He' such a brilliant storyteller! XD

  • @timothyxmcveigh Shouldnt you add in blowing up federal buildings?.....you know cause of your name

  • @timothyxmcveigh Well said mate, spot on. People my age, who grew up with punk, couldn't care less about our own Irish traditional folk music. Until the Pogues. Hugely important to me, the Pogues made Irish music real to me. Shane's songs will be played in Irish homes for years to come. In fifty or so years " Fairytale.." " Sally..." " Brown eyes.." " Streams.." will be called " traditional " songs. We are priviliged to be around him. He is truly a living legend.

  • @timothyxmcveigh Don't say ancestors if you're from America please.

  • @benbebin Don't say what to say if you have a dick up your arse please.

    fascist tool

  • @benbebin don't talk period if your family isn't irish on irish/republican songs, you can kill the people but you will never kill the irish spirit, and the music !

  • It really kick you in brain...

  • Lá Fhéile Phádraig Sona Duit!

    Happy St Patricks Day!

  • we don't have oprah mcwinfrey coming to our aid,everytime we get a paddlin'. go shane! this song is untouchable

  • well said my friend.I agree w/yer sentiment and i'm a fookin yankee

  • good shtuff

  • couldnt've said it better meself

  • i love the fact that this song always makes me want to jump around in the small irish pub around the corner, with a bottle of whisky in my hand.

  • Whats the pub called? My mates and I are hitting up a string of 10 in St. Pats here in Ottawa.

  • erm its in london =] lol!

  • lol they named a pub after st.patrick

    now thats ironic

  • I don't think you really understand the word irony.The Pogues are a London outfit,& St.Patrick was from Turkey!

  • it doesnt matter where they were from. just the fact that , a 400 AD priest and general non advocate of drinking, and naming a pub after this person

    now do you understand? or should i elaborate furthur.plank

  • Wow- for centuries no one has ever discover for sure where St Pat was actually born. Ifonly they'd asked you eh? I don't think antone ever claimed he was born in Ireland-what'syour point?

  • Who the fuck is antone? I was just stating a fact,asshole.

  • @weatherman68

    Are you paranoid r something?...

    terrible drinking song ...but I love it.

  • Paranoid?Why are you asking that?Who've you been talking to?What makes you think that?Is it you who's been following me?I didn't do it!How did you find me?

  • HAHAHA ^

  • St.Pat was not born in Turkey! My mistake.He was born in Roman-Briton.I've never claimed that he was born in Ireland.WHO IS ANTONE?

  • Comment removed

  • @TheMelaniehadwin:I understand Shane was born in Tunbridge Wells,Kent.U.K. He lived in Tipp & returned to England when he was 6 years old.I was born in Tralee & was brought to the U.K. 2 months before I was 2 years old,is that 2nd generation?You are correct about St.Pat's birthplace!St.George is believed to have been born in Palestine.I'm calm & happy,I hope you are too!

  • This kicks some ass.

    *needs to drink something*

  • We took u up to midnight mass,left u in the lurch

    U dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church

  • i am irish i come from derry this band is the best and this song is 1 of my favs i have there album they r cool

  • saw them two days ago in dublin....it was my 8th time seeng them and still amazing!!

  • lucky sod!

  • Off to see the boys later in Birmingham, Whiskey is flowing already!!

  • I loves me some Pogues. Spinning the grooves off all my Pogues CDs, lately. :D

  • the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devils in the chair!!!!!!!!!!