The Saw Doctors - I Useta Lover (Live on The Late Late Show 1990)

The Saw Doctors performed I Useta Lover Live on the Late Late Show on RTE on Friday September 21 1990

[@richardmiddleton8833]

I remember getting caught at lunch time in the pub, by the school principal when in 4th year in 1991, playing pool with the lads and "I used to love her" blasting on the juke box. Great times, great song.

[@Blaise-182]

One of the best Irish bands ever

[@rybry5080]

Better than wolfetones?

[@annieroche22]

​@rybry5080 lets never compare genius 🤣😁😁😁🤣

[@horrorbusiness78]

​@@rybry5080yes miles better than a bunch of IRA lovin bastards like the wolfetones. Thin Lizzy, Therapy? , Saw Doctors, boomtown rats, Ash all great acts from the WHOLE of Ireland obvs U2 but i never liked their ott arrogance later on.

[@acceptableandbornind80s32]

My Grandad who loved this, RIP 1942-2022

[@Gary-g7f]

Fucking classic song! Still loving it in 2023

[@asburystan]

'Do you remember her collecting for Concern on Christmas Eve.' Try explaining that lyric to anybody who is not Irish! LOL!

[@Emberrss]

I’m Scottish and understand it, does help though my dads irish 😂

[@davelewis156]

This song reminds me so much of my ex Missis 😂😂

[@arosisgod365]

I just took it to mean collecting for charity lol

[@paulmcstay546]

I never tire of hearing this genius composition. Classic!!

[@ericedge2929]

Fantastic song, should definitely be more widely known and appreciated

[@Withcare111]

Why ? Because you say so ? This is the Nick that was coming out of this country while in other countries some of the best and biggest bands were changing the musical history .

[@hclarke]

I saw this show the night it aired. It was the first album I bought. They played Brussels a few years ago and unfortunately missed them. My children and Village now know their album’s. Crazy to think it’s 30 years ago.

[@gamingwithpugs4067]

What great memories this brings back. The lads looking and sounding great. Poor ould Gaybo looked great too RIP. Great times altogether 😊❤👍

[@SeanMurphy1]

this band is going places!

[@grahamwalsh7]

This band went places 30 years ago and I’m delighted to have followed them from the start.

[@kennyblack1349]

There is a wee band from Liverpool you might want to keep tabs on their called the Beatles could make it big 😂😂😂😂

[@marymcgivney9041]

Great jiveing song its always on my mind 😃❤💋❤😃

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

These lads are pure craic

[@Aaronr1110]

its amazing how this song went from there to become one of the best irish pub songs ever. amazing band

[@christophertmiller1360]

My wife and I love these guys .

[@derrickmurphy6040]

Oh shit I remember bopping around the dance floor to it.what a song it was and still is.legends lads.

[@branniganbaby]

Loving the original lineup, all so young :) xx

[@bluegtturbo]

So funny and energetic - fabulous!

[@taragill2005]

So young!!! Really miss them touring ‘

[@silvanodiruzzadj1434]

Love this band

[@christophertmiller1360]

I have 2 of the same DVD of The Saw Doctor s . One of them I can't play anymore.

[@robertamcdowell6785]

Love this song

[@kenschweikert]

love it with the mandolin and 12 string

[@joeoreilly1479]

Great

[@johnmartinsmith4634]

Just brilliant .Thanks

[@spmoran4703]

Perhaps I should sing my own version and call it I useta love him once.

[@Crazybenjiwoo]

epic win.

[@keyholeartists]

24 years ago ... Jeez

[@afc358]

28 years ago ... Jeez

[@peterfreeman9369]

28 years... Jeez

[@FergR]

...and now it's 30 FFS!

[@arosisgod365]

​@@FergR 32. 💀

[@SportiClips]

I have fallen for another she can make her own way home And even if she asked me now I'd let her go alone I useta see her up the chapel when she went to Sunday mass And when she'd go to receive, I'd kneel down there And watch her pass The glory of her ass I useta to love her, I useta love her once A long, long time ago I useta to love her, I useta love her once A long long time ago It's gone , all my lovin' is gone It's gone , all my lovin' is gone D'you remember her collecting for concern on Christmas eve She was on a forty eight hour fast just water and black tea I walked right up and made an ostentatious Contribution And I winked at her to tell her I'd seduce her in the future When she's feelin looser I useta to love her, I useta love her once A long, long time ago I useta to love her, I useta love her once A long long time ago It's gone , all my lovin' is gone It's gone , all my lovin' is gone So now you know the truth of it she's no longer my obsession Though the thoughts and dreams i had of her would take six months in confession See i met this young one Thursday night and she's inta free expression And her mission is to rid the world of this sinful repression Then we had a session I useta to love her, I useta love her once A long, long time ago I useta to love her, I useta love her once A long long time ago It's gone , all my lovin' is gone It's gone , all my lovin' is gone It's gone , long , long gone I have fallen for another and she can make her own way home

[@keithm9513]

I saw them live once and they changed the last line to "I have fallen for her mother, cos the land is in her name". Lol

[@fukinwhurinjasussake]

daaaacent

[@peterjohnson617]

she can make her own way home

[@goconnell3740]

No better way to be introduced than by Gaybo (R.I.P.) on the Late Late Show!

[@JAYLEEYATES]

Top line up from these boys, ..... doesn't look like Gordon Strachey here

[@kevinduff135]

Landmark song. It all seemed to go falling away from here. The clergy scandals (including two of the biggest names - Cleary & Casey - turning out to have had kids). Legalisation of divorce & homosexuality. The Father Teds in 1996. By the end of the '90s Irish society was unrecogniseable from what it was in the '80s

[@724camera3]

Well said lad. It was a shame that we in the 80s had to go through another 10 years before the country woke up. I hope I'm alive to see the catholic church in Ireland gone forever. A true pure evil.

[@alpyne21]

Thanks be to god