The Pogues - I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day

Oh my name is Jock Stewart
I'm a canny gaun man
And a roving young fellow I've been
So be easy and free
when you're drinking with me
I'm a man you don't meet every day

I have acres of land
I have men at command
I have always a shilling to spare
So be easy and free
when you're drinking with me
I'm a man you don't meet every day

So come fill up your glasses
of brandy and wine
Whatever it costs I will pay
So be easy and free
when you're drinking with me
I'm a man you don't meet every day

Well I took out my dog
and him I did shoot
All down in the county Kildare
So be easy and free
when you're drinking with me
I'm a man you don't meet every day

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[scoulark]

my husband died 8 months ago he was a bowler and my sons craig and kenneth have ordered a bench to be delivered to his bowling club in memory of their father on his plack the words thay have chosen is I'M A MAN YOU DON'T MEET EVERY DAY

[HarryUpson]

I would never have recognised Shanes voice frome this song.

Had he reached puberty when he made this recording?

Its a song about a horse trader who decides to pack it all in and become a sailor.

I often consider doing the same but I suffer from terrible seasickness.

Isnt life a confusing bag of weasels?

[revol148]

@HarryUpson we need more people like you on this website!

[KurtMcGowan]

Saw tyrannosaur last night. One of the characters sang this!!!! Great film. Great song xxx

[LordSpudsworth]

@HarryUpson It's not Shane singing it's Catlin O' Riordan.

[Yumisayoko]

I just love this song! <3

[dugzbawz7]

@andreasswarfeld feck the dug.... naw feck u..ya horses arse... bawbag!

[dugzbawz7]

@HarryUpson in fact youre a bawbag!

[dugzbawz7]

@HarryUpson youre a fud son!!!!!!

[Beelzebubbbbles]

Not sure I agree. The first version I ever heard had the lyric "over him I did shoot, down in the County Kildare". Which makes sense, we shoot 'over' dogs, and there is a County Kildare. It's where I come from. Somewhere over the years that line has gotten muddled.

[fleetwood1111]

@Beelzebubbbbles The original song goes, 'I took out my gun and with my dog I did shoot, down by the river Kildare'. There is no river Kildare, and the Scottish version goes 'down by the River Tay'. The Pogues just reinterpreted it, as did the Dubliners and everyone else.

[Beelzebubbbbles]

"Well I took out my dog

and him I did shoot" is a mistake. It's "over him I did shoot". When we hunt with dogs we say that we shoot over them. Not literally, obviously. The dog shows us where to shoot, and if it's a spaniel it flushes the bird. Then you're shooting over it. Point being that this man didn't take his dog out to Cill Dara and shoot the poor beast.