Dirty Old Town - The Pogues - Lyrics ,

[@nikkicole3331]

This was just beautiful. I am deaf so couldn't hear the singing, but just reading the lyrics created such a deep feeling in me a poetic sadness.

[@lennyluzitano8920]

Love you buddy..I here for you in Jesus name.. I'm a portagee..but your not as drunk as me..Happy Saint PATRICK'S DAY..From Lenny Luzitano. South of Boston Massachusetts.USA

[@joline2730]

Nikki: words written by Ewan McColl about the town in the north west of England called Salford 🎼🎵🎶🎹🪗🎻🎵🎶

[@Cinemaniac87]

Got problems with my right ear but yes lyrics are beautiful 😢

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

@@joline2730 Actually Salford is a city, but gets overshadowed by Manchester next door.

[@annemunro6838]

The lyrics are so powerful. Anyone in Britain from a certain generation can relate to them. So glad you got to 'hear' them.

[@jimso771]

Written by the great songwriter Ewan McColl, born in Salford to Scottish parents. He also wrote the beautiful love song first time ever I saw your face.

[@kirstinhiggins8548]

Really? Wow

[@philmiler]

Thank you for sharing this song here. Whenever I listen to it I get transported to 1989, London. The first time I heard it, I was riding one of the subway trains in London, my first days there. I was 20 and everything seemed so magical to me. That’s when a busker entered the train with his guitar in hand, a harmonica holder around his neck. He started playing and singing this song. I was totally hypnotized. That moment will be etched in my mind forever.

[@sylvainbardet8253]

RIP Shane ! Tu resteras à jamais dans mon cœur avec cette chanson magnifique que j'écoute et écouterai toujours en pensant à toi.. Bon voyage mec ! Dirty old town ❤

[@thomaslunn8458]

One of my dads favourite songs! I miss him so much 1974-2019 💚🖤

[@maskutchitamagotchiworld1911]

My absolute favourite piece @ 1:26 God, i miss the 90s so much.

[@Cinemaniac87]

❤ RIP your dad great song

[@colinearnshaw7725]

A lovely song, but nothing to do with Ireland. It's Manchester, England.

[@magisystem5377]

In some way, this soothes my broken heart from a love I never had. Thank you Pogues.

[@MsDancehall7]

Love this song, reminds me of my dad. Love you dad. Hope youre okay up there. 1971-2012.. Always watch over me.

[@squach6239]

Ella Marie Damn babe ! God bless you! Your old man was only 2years older than me! Sorry for your loss!

[@MsDancehall7]

Thank you, God bless you too 🙏

[@MsDancehall7]

+Michael Smyth?

[@xanairigoien4813]

Yeah listening to this remindes me of the people I've lost honestly just reminds me of all those nights surrounded by the people I love. i'm sorry for your loss, God Bless.

[@marierays250]

Ella Marie you poor darling xxx

[@notreyf]

Best song about Salford ever...Some would still like to chop us down "like an old dead tree" but we're still here. And still have a thriving Irish community :)

[@nedkelly3251]

I know it's a 5 year old comment but good on ye fella, my best mates from Salford, love from Glasgow❤

[@jakestorey190]

How is it about Salford

[@notreyf]

@@jakestorey190 Hi Jake. Scottish folk singer Ewan MacColl, wrote the song. The "Dirty Old Town" is Salford. Hey Ned. Thanks for the reply, Glasgow is a top city, I once went to a party in Glasgow and I still talk about it 25 years later. Cracking people. Brilliant sense of humour, the best.

[@gweilospur5877]

The Pogues and Dubliners made everyone think this is an Irish song, but it was written about Salford by a Scotsman who was raised in England.

[@Harry83639]

@@gweilospur5877 Is the Dubliners the one with Ronnie drew

[@monsterman5117]

If you suffer from panic attacks or or other anxiety disorders listen to this, it helps me all the time and I think it could help others.

[@lawrencelymanii6943]

Agreed. And I hope it keeps helping. I sing it to myself when I'm locked in ptsd.

[@mikeyyoyo6464]

PTSD is horrible memories and we only live once! Time waits for no man, ❤️

[@lawrencelymanii6943]

@@mikeyyoyo6464 except , in my case , it is a conditioned response to stimulus that I have NO control over, it's not memory that plagues me, it's the physical response, the adrenaline dump, the fight or flight reflex.

[@mikeyyoyo6464]

Lawrence, my memories spark emotions from long ago and they haunt me so how can you experience feelings without memories kicking them off ? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@lawrencelymanii6943]

@@mikeyyoyo6464 because my ptsd isn't due to things I saw, but acquired, over time, with stimuli that was repeated over and over. Everyone's experience is different, and that is one of the reasons it's so insidious, because everyone's experience is different. I do sometimes use memories to help stop my brains wiring from taking over.

[@TheBreadMan25]

I had an elderly Irishman as my Latin teacher in high school, and he was a delight! Every St. Patrick's Day, instead of working, we would literally do nothing except listen to Irish music (Including this song) for 40 minutes straight. It was such an awesome experience that my friend and I continue to listen to the same songs to this day (which is St. Patrick's, btw :D)

[@Rambling54321]

This is an English folk song written by Ewan McColl and based on Salford next to Manchester. The Irish already have a wealth of beautiful music and songs and no need to claim this one.

[@robw7676]

Must be a 'murican. They often seem to think English folk music is Irish, and Irish poets are English.

[@snowyy1919]

@@Rambling54321 the pogues are an irish celtic band shane macgown is irish....

[@thebigree6155]

What was the classes opinion on irish music then?

[@MrGustySpence]

@@snowyy1919 he was born in England that makes him... ENGLISH 😂

[@natalieann6711]

One of my grandads favourite songs god rest his soul forever young ❤️❤️❤️

[@violet-w-8589]

This song feels like hope and pain dancing with each other and I'll forever hold it in my soul for that reason

[@giveusanesirbobholness7199]

This song is an absolute masterpeace. Stop arguing about where the song is about even though its about salford. This song resonates with all us dirty old town dwellers both sides of the pond. Shane made the connection between british and irish music because him and his band were super talented and different. Respect to all my fellow dirty old town dwellers and RIP Shane lad. Just enjoy listening to the song folks.. Love, respect and wishing you all a merry christmas from a dirty old town in central England.

[@soldiernelly]

this was written by Ewan MacColl not Shane.

[@giveusanesirbobholness7199]

@soldiernelly it certainly was mate and Shane and the band pulled it off big time. 👍

[@skylineuk1485]

@@soldiernellywho was Kirsty MacColls dad.

[@paulmatschull1923]

The original reverence town was Belfast.

[@paulmatschull1923]

However Salford got the nod

[@mauserwaffen982]

RIP Shane. Thanks for the music! Drink a pint in heaven for me!

[@douglaslabarbera3557]

This song is stuck in my brain -- it's on a loop -- I love it!

[@janet4021]

Shane MacGowan we Salute you 💚 love and respect x

[@pbeb3081]

Written about my hometown Salford in the UK where I was born and bred and still proudly live. I'm nearly 59 but know and remember everything sang about in this magical song. A beautiful Salford Anthem. Sadly the actual Gas works have gone but the big old original wall surrounding them are still there. As for the working Salford Docks they have long gone now. It's now known as Media City full of upmarket private developments restaurants and shopping. Bring back the old days and the old times. Salford is almost unrecognisable now from the times wrote about in the song. Ordsall the Docks everything gone. The train sang about in the song was the one that went through Ordsall straight to the Docks but long gone now. There was a rumour when we was kids that when it was abandoned the old railway tunnels used to contain a captured German Train full of dead Nazis and Gold lol. We called them the the death tunnels and used to dare each other to go as far as possible in them it was pitch black. Those were the days lol miss them so much 😞

[@pbeb3081]

Forgot to add the old canal sang about in the song is the Manchester Ship Canal it linked Liverpool to Salford and Ships from all over the world would sail into Salford Docks in its heyday. My Dad and many family friends was Dockers or was in the merchant navy. So proud of the history and heritage of our Dirty Old Town.

[@alyxreilly1536]

My dad used to sing this all the time when I was growing up, truly has a special place in my heart

[@maskutchitamagotchiworld1911]

My favourite piece @ 1:27 This wonderful song has taken me back when times was good. The 90s was such a great decade and the music was powerful. I really miss the 1990s so much.

[@mickaelhouzet9085]

God bless you and your father ....im french and i love this song me too 🙏😉

[@VenFlyte]

Where u from?

[@malartsny]

This town has existed in many places, that's the power of it

[@justanotheraccount8398]

Jules Moules the town exists outside of Europe too. I've seen it everywhere in America.

[@zakutheferret8182]

This song is definitely about the Tokyo Megalopolis

[@michaelmrozik9216]

This tune takes me back to earlier days in Chicago, Illinois

[@jfamily5626]

Also New Bedford and fall River Massachusetts...

[@danykyokushin]

@@justanotheraccount8398 American cities and old cant get along

[@gaconnochie]

@1woodnut The song was written by Ewan MacColl in 1949 as a musical interlude for his play "Landscape with Chimneys". Both the song and play are about life in industrial Salford, now part of Greater Manchester. MacColl was himself born in Salford but both of his parents were Scottish. He became the major figure in the Britsh folk revival. Apart from this song his two other best known songs are probably Shoals Of Herring and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

[@forthedisenfranchised4366]

Genius to write such a romantic ballad with the backdrop of industry and dark shady streets

[@abiezercoppe8886]

It's a fantastic song, and it's construction quite interesting and deliberate. Its form follows that of a bucolic folk song, where the lovers meet on a bank flowers, or under a tree, along with descriptions of the scenery. It considers how these scenes would be played out in a world where there is no bubbling brook or nightingales to sing.

[@tenparab]

Tony White Well love grows in the sooty stains of the smoke belching factories.

[@tobytaylor8796]

it's a love song to a place called Salford

[@daveflick12]

my city Salford. The gas works and the wall surrounding them are still there.

[@monsterman5117]

He was a musical genius but a drunken idiot the other times 😁

[@CaesarInVa]

This song always takes me back to the summer it first made it big in the US, which I think was around 1984 or so. I was 24, fresh out of the Navy, attending college and dating a prima-ballerina who worked nights as a bartender in Old Towne, Alexandria. On those deeply dark, sultry summer nights, as I waited for Tina outside the bar, I would lean against the building's wall and let its red bricks, still radiating heat from the hot summer's sun, warm my back. The lyric "I kissed my girl by the factory wall" is especially poignant, as we shared many a kiss by that same wall in Old Towne. I've moved far, far away from that blessed place, but on the rare occasions when I return to the haunts of yester-year, I always make it a point to visit Old Towne, always late, late at night so I may walk the dark, still streets deep in contemplation undisturbed by others. As I walk by the old wall, our wall, I reach out, touch the brickwork and ask myself "did I ever dare to imagine that one day, some 40 years further on, I would walk this very same sidewalk, stand in this very same place, touch the very same bricking where we once kissed and yearn for her?" If those bricks could speak, what would they say? Would they even recognize the once-slender, svelte former athlete? Would they greet me warmly or admonish me for letting the love of my life slip carelessly through my fingers?

[@Briselance]

Damn, man... that sounded bitter-sweet as hell. So beautiful yet so melancholic. May you find joy despite regrets and worries. Good day to you, sir.

[@Lyndanet]

She probably remembers you very well maybe one day she’ll see you on a bus stop and not get there in time to say hello

[@VenFlyte]

Bro u make me cry

[@jaywheezy5420]

Who asked?

[@lamminhkhoi2309]

@@jaywheezy5420 shut up

[@smileyface702]

Could be about so many towns/cities and that's the beauty of it. The listener can project. Reminds me of Belfast.

[@mariajocechristandpatrickl3157]

Reminds me of my father. He used to listen every day when he was still alive. I miss him so much. 1940-2016.

[@JoanneGallagher-k6o]

Rip your dad❤

[@el1z_x0x]

This was my dad's favourite song I come back to listen to this when i think of him I hope he is listening to this in the sky, I miss u everday dad.

[@domenicoaspromonte4573]

Never forget when i hear u a first time....i was to drunked thx for all Your irish music Shane i Miss You

[@avamank]

Awesome! Will always love the pogues! Sunshine, beer, BBQ and dirty ol' town playin darts in the garden, ....perfect.

[@cherylcompere7020]

My daddy loved this song. He is in heaven now singing this song with the Angels

[@TheSniala]

This song makes me melancholic, but I love it so... It reminds me of my teenage years

[@joemama3308]

I love your pfp!

[@louiedillon3365]

This song is incredible my dad used to sing it and everytime I listen it it makes me think of him. Lives on in my heart forever. Love you dad RIP you old git.

[@RollingEasy]

I don't know why this song just cuts so deeply into my soul and into my memory but it does. There is just something about a cold crisp and very clear winters' morning when the river is a millpond and the sun is warming and there is the smell of steam trains in the air. And then you see and hear the loco crossing the bridge and its coming into this side of town where there is the gasworks and the powerhouse and the foundries and the spring makers and the blacksmiths and the iron and steel workers. Over all my years I'd dress up quite smartly on Friday nights and go to a folk bar down by the harbour and sing to this song, every single time the band would strike it up. I loved my 'Dirty Old Town'.

[@juliaroable]

Yes my friend. But for me Derty old town is every where.

[@shanellegray4554]

Played this song over and over for my grandad when he passed, love this song

[@jolijr]

One of the greatest songs sung when drunk ever!! The drunker you are the better it sounds. At least to the singer. John from Oz.

[@Learntheharmonica]

Absolute classic. (And of course, actually about Salford and not an Irish song at all!)

[@maggiewhite430]

This is my grandad favourite song. Brings back so meany memories😥👌🏼

[@Justaperson1289]

Maggie White *many*

[@rickymaertzendorff9467]

16 years ago I listend to this song in a irish pub in Salou, spain. Never found it again untill today

[@charlaymildred366]

No way, I went a few years back, do you remember what it was called because there was quite a few

[@xankah8506]

The nostalgia of this song is unreal . Salford FC ❤️

[@danscfc4512]

Up the ammies!

[@nikhilajarekar9623]

He's our centre half, He's our number 4!!!!....

[@wignyoprastowo91]

Watch him defend And we watch him score He's pass the ball Calm as you like He's virgil van dijk He's virgil van dijk #YNWA from Indonesia 🔥🔥

[@jasonclarke3114]

Its ours footballs comen home!! 🔥 🔥

[@AgustinQ192]

HE IS VIRGIL VAN DIIIIJKK

[@davemacdee]

Phil Jones

[@AgustinQ192]

@@davemacdee 🤭🤭🤭

[@206vinc]

A beautiful song for history !!!! Makes me love England

[@BurtonRdForever]

God save the Queen

[@Omegajunior2658]

This song can be absolutely perfect for St. Patrick's Day ☘ 🌈 🇮🇪 and it's one of my favourite Pogues songs of all time. I'm always singing this song on St. Patrick's Day ☘ 🌈 🇮🇪! It's a great song and it's still a timeless classic. Happy St. Patrick's Day ☘ 🌈 🇮🇪 from Ireland 🇮🇪!

[@colinearnshaw7725]

It is about meeting your girlfriend by a canal (the Manchester to Bury canal) in SALFORD in ENGLAND and written by Ewan MacCall,who was born in Manchester.

[@davidbostock4145]

Colin mate you’ll be claiming Danny Boy was penned by an Englishman next 😂

[@DrTmouth]

I still listen to this at least once a week. Soundtrack to a perfect day

[@CordeliaMoreno]

My Dad used to sing this to me when I was a kid too. All the kids in my family grew up with folk music before we ever heard pop music.

[@franciscomiguel497]

ME ENCANTA!!!! DE LAS MEJORES CANCIONES DEL MUNDO CON MUCHÍSIMA DIFERENCIA SIN LUGAR A DUDA!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝

[@tannerboeckmann4363]

Listening to the pogues awakenings the Irish in me😂 my parents would listen to their music, and I loved it!

[@darrenlloyd4117]

It's about an English in town love, Salford in Lancashire. The pogues are mostly English too. Not being rude but just letting you know

[@pOtAtO-cd3he]

this was always my grandads karaoke song but he passed away a few months ago I come here to cry 😭🥺❤️ missing you grandad 😖😭

[@calvinmccahon4053]

my two great uncles loved this song and they both died 😥

[@calvinmccahon4053]

sad times

[@maskutchitamagotchiworld1911]

My Words: I know this song very well, and The Pogues is such a great band of all time. The memories of this all time classic is so touching. My Thoughts: It is nice to look back to the time when music was so powerful and really enjoyable. This has certainly brought back so many memories from my past life. I understand how music triggers the mind from years gone by. My Old Saying: Those were the best days of my life. Gone but never forgotten.

[@dollyrellinger2621]

Hi ALL My name is Alan This is one of my favs to sing and play my 6 string or at party's. ILL PLAY IT FOR YOU and your G Dad POTATO next time.

[@TheF0xskibidbopmmdada]

Bittersweet, romantic, nostalgic, and most importantly, Irish. So many emotions in one song :)

[@maskutchitamagotchiworld1911]

My favourite things: 1) Piping hot cup of tea 2) Good old music 3) A fine litted cigarette 4) No interruptions 5) My own company 6) Watching the time fly by 7) No annoying distractions

[@lisaw7089]

This is a killer song - Shane's vocals are just awesome

[@zacj2285]

The rhythm of this song is amazing it gets stuck in my head every time I listen to it

[@r.equestrian3565]

this song was one of my nannys favorite songs, love you and miss you nanny 💋 1953-2012

[@berthahawco4285]

My dad love this song. Miss him so much ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@philipknox7976]

Anthem of my native City Salford

[@ajderm]

It triggers something deep inside me. I always start crying when I hear this song...

[@margaretgallagher748]

My Uncle passed away 3 days ago and I can't get this lovely song out of my head. He lived in England - I live in the USA.

[@betht7909]

Hi name wasn't David by any chance love x

[@margaretgallagher3676]

@@betht7909 No, his name was Patrick Sarsfield but we called him Uncle Sars.

[@RollingEasy]

Always reminds me of the East Perth gasworks and powerhouse and the smell of coal and coke in the air on a cold sunny morning and the sound of a steam engine whistle in the distance. And down by the river at Claisebrook and under the bridge would sleep some of the district's residents and others in doss houses and in old pubs and run down houses. I had a night or two under the bridge myself at one stage. Some found sleeping in the cemetery appealing.. On the stone slabs warmed by the sun during the day. Yes it was a dirty old town but they cleaned it up and ruined it forever. And I did too, meet my first love very much in these surrounds.

[@Belioyt]

Tom Tee I always love songs that bring out such memories in people. I first heard 'The Pogues' in the movie PS: I Love You, they used "Fairy Tales of New York" in the movie.

[@Belioyt]

Tom Tee the other song I like is 'Waltzing Matilda' the song reminded me that Australian troops fought in the Middle East, against the Ottomans. I never learned this in a history class though

[@jvanderwolde7195]

Redriverrocl

[@jordanthfc8039]

Nice to find another Perthling here. This song kinda does remind me of that area now you've mentioned it

[@gusjackson3658]

Timeless. Forget fashion and enjoy everything you can.

[@OriginallyDecyphyrd]

This has failed to cease being a sing-a-long even after learning to play it, amazing!

[@Maximillian-Tiberius-Rex]

2017 and I still come back here every time

[@oliverwood8614]

Listening to this song reminds of old Trafford “the theatre of dreams “

[@hulabilly1748]

I miss you Pumpkin. ❤ Everyday is a struggle to get through, I think of you every second of each minute… I love you forever and always 🥺

[@bsilkwood8272]

I've had a drink or 4... Didn't know I needed this song in my life :) Thank you!

[@NaiomiBologna]

Moved to my fiancé’s home town an old fishing town in the uk. Walking through his town I think of this song and I couldn’t be happier to be in his dirty old town with him.

[@aprillynn6490]

Every year ever since i was little my uncle would travel to new mexico and load up his truck with fireworks for our annual 4th of july event. Everything was always so extravagant. At night when the fireworks show started, he would crank up his surround so loud outside and blare this song. It became a family tradition. Now all the nieces nephews and grandkids knowthis song and we sing it as a family every year during the grand finale. This will be our first year without our annual tradition. R.i.p. uncle. U took your songs and our family happiness with you when you left this world. Dirty ol town

[@chrisgillard6129]

Thank you Shane, the band, Kirsti and her dear family. All the best and a Merry Christmas. From Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

[@sadsillyboo5026]

The back alleys of love gone bad, that's the dirtiest part of any town. Classic drinking song. Specially when played live.

[@colinearnshaw7725]

A great song written by an Englishman from Manchester, Ewan MacCall, about a gas works the Salford to Bury canal in MANCHESTER, England.

[@crnaruka3359]

I love Ireland, i will come back again for yours beers and friendly hospitality...

[@BurtonRdForever]

It's about an English city.

[@SoberStart]

This song is about Salford, where I was born and live :)

[@dudemuffin3023]

Exactly

[@tomkatt7747]

I was born hanky park .... Salford ...

[@its-josher7633]

Same

[@frangipanirodgers]

RIP Caroline Aherne a true working class lovely. Bless and God speed her soul to her own people. xxx

[@maryellenlouvelle4475]

Classic I’m 60 born in 1960. And still relate to great tunes

[@theaggravateddutchman736]

Powerful song....I was born in a dirty old town moved away and now live in a dirty old town......Bring on 2021

[@kerryrickard9214]

I love this song I used to like it when they played it at the pub. 💯💯💯💯💯

[@georgecurtis2821]

One of my favourite songs ever people dont apprefiate lyrics and songs like these nowadays

[@polskus]

We bought a CD with this song on it when we were in Ireland in 2008! These memories :3

[@BurtonRdForever]

It's about an English city.

[@thegamechanger2058]

Manchester

[@wackster66]

Wonderful!! = wonderful, adjective, inspiring delight, pleasure, or admiration; extremely good; marvellous.

[@brendawoodford6363]

I love this. I used to sing it at the folk club in Cambridge. Also, when I was walking through fields imagining I was being filmed - no one did it then, I was ahead of time and didn’t know it.

[@Ferruccio_Guicciardi]

Happy St. Patrick's Day from Dublin, Ireland

[@huanliu7816]

Happy St. Patrick's Day from Brisbane, Australia.

[@alexgordon572]

flip inheck it’s an Irish song

[@jasonwalsh4289]

flip inheck the singer is Irish I guess but a lot of the most popular Irish Singers a lot so they probably got mixed up

[@adrianbryant5847]

Another great song by a great legend

[@soldiernelly]

It was written by Ewan MacColl not Shane.

[@stephenandrews8419]

Amazing this just popped up on KZbin just as I'm actually drinking a wee glass of the Pogues own brand whiskey. Give it a try everyone, it'll soon have you singing along, that's if you weren't already. London Steve

[@Captainalfie]

Can't stop listening to this piece. Heard it on Republic of Doyle..... both great! Thanks.

[@TheVO_Official]

This song is about a dirty old town that a man grew up in and found happiness. For those who lost loved ones it’s a story of their life

[@vincesuzadail5858]

Starting March, I listen to this on my CD player along with Irish folk songs. Then I put them away until next March. Love these songs.

[@sheffboi1]

My dad loves thses RIP dad miss you every day till I see you again ❤

[@rachellgissane2122]

Reminds me of my dad would have been his birthday today miss you dad x

[@marymcmullen7765]

This the best song of the world! Yes!

[@Anti-nea]

+ Mac Gowan . RIP . Beautiful celtic music

[@hooliid3608]

He's a centre-half, He's a number four, Watch him defend, And we watch him score, He'll pass the ball, Calm as you like, He's Virgil van Dijk, He's Virgil van Dijk…

[@jamesmawdsley9565]

hooli ID fuck off

[@kopite1141]

boss

[@darkraider4742]

What a prick ... fuck all with our song

[@conorpower6312]

Virgil van dijk version is better on the reds

[@_Mix__Media]

hooli ID NEDELJA JE IGRA PARTIZAN PUT SE ZNA HUMSKA ULICA MOJA KUCA JE DANAS JNA CRNO BELI GRAD CRNO BELI GRAD

[@canada9182]

Moved away from my home and people. This kind of music takes me back and makes me less homesick

[@bornacovic6134]

He's our center half!

[@morgan5663]

He’s or number 4

[@mthw_lc]

Watch him defend

[@alexandrebray925]

and we watch him score

[@davidhinde3229]

@@alexandrebray925 he plays the ball

[@KikIkhwan98]

Calm as you like

[@richardhills235]

God bless derreck feilds.first time i heard this song at hes funeral.i cant this song out of my head.nice song irish brothers.

[@evelynschmid6775]

so many emotions in there...

[@mikeyyoyo6464]

❤️

[@merlinkraft5841]

And here I am still loving this in 2018!

[@mountainstreetallotments1353]

This never gets old

[@connollybrid1984]

Love you Shane & the boys xxx

[@dafydddavies7250]

Rest easy Mr MacGowan ☘️

[@tomutomu]

nice moment on that song. thank you.

[@averagelania]

Ok so im a directioner but the pogues just dont get old been brought up on this by my dad! Glad about it to!!

[@PassiveSmoking]

I used to walk past the gasworks wall referenced in this song every day whilst attending uni. It's in Salford. I hear they're demolishing the gasworks but the wall will be left standing thanks to this song.

[@bruceleroyhoffman]

Salford, Greater Manchester

[@BestUserNameUK]

Ordsall👍🏻

[@TheDawsonGamer]

The one and only, they love to hate us, we love to be us ;)

[@maryellenlouvelle4475]

You won’t be forgotten…believe that!❤

[@dominicmagog7070]

I do love the way the song has been "Owned" by various nationalities. It was written about Salford by Ewan McColl.

[@rogerhudson9732]

The Croatian version is 'sporki stari grad'. Now the 'dirtiest' thing in Salford is the BBC.

[@johnosullivan6439]

And Ewan McColl was a Scotsman, and it's being performed here by an Irish band, who do the best version of it (hence the millions of views in this and other KZbin videos). It's Celtic music in all its brilliance.

[@thomasphillips7921]

@@johnosullivan6439 Ewan McColl was born and raised in Salford though

[@skylark4901]

A friend of mine had a bottle of "The Pogues" whiskey and never heard of The Pogues. I sent him this video. Needless to say he loved it