Pogues, The - Sally MacLennane Lyrics

Now Jimmy played harmonica
In the pub where I was born
He played it from the night time
To the peaceful early morn
He soothed the souls of psychos
And the men who had the horn
And they all looked very happy
In the morning

Now Jimmy didn't like his place
In this world of ours
Where the elephant man
Broke strong men's necks
Cause he had too many powers
So sad to see the grieving
Of the people he was leaving
So he took the road for God knows
In the morning

We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song
Of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing him again

So sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey
cause I'm going far away
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer
And to Sally McLennane

The years passed by
And times had changed
I grew to be a man
And I learned to love the virtues of sweet Sally McLennane
I took the jeers
And drank the beers
And crawled back home at dawn
And I ended up a barman
In the morning

I played the pump
And took the hump
As I watered whiskey down
I talked of whores and horses
To the men who drank the brown
I heard them say that Jimmy's making money far away
But some people left for heaven
Without warning

We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song
Of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing him again

So sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey
Cause I'm going far away
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer
And to Sally McLennane

When Jimmy came back home
He was surprised that we where gone
He asked them all the details
Of the train that we where on
Some people
Where afraid to croak
But Jimmy drank until he choked
And Then he took the road for heaven
In the morning

We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song
Of times long gone
Though we knew we'd be seeing him again

So sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey
Cause I'm going far away
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer
And to Sally McLennane

So sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey
Cause I'm going far away
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer
And to Sally McLennane

Give Ireland back to the Irish

I'm just a humble motherfucker with a big ass dick.

Fucking ace

Well Jimmy played harmonica in the pub where I was born
He played it from the night time to the peaceful early morn
He soothed the souls of psychos and the men who had the horn
And they all looked very happy in the morning
But Jimmy didn't like his place in this world of ours
Where the elephant man broke strong men's necks
When he'd had too many Powers
So sad to see the grieving of the people that he's leaving
And he took the road for God knows in the morning

[Pre-Chorus]
We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing him again
(Far away!)

[Chorus]
I'm sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer or whiskey cause I'm going far away (far away!)
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer and to Sally MacLennane

When Jimmy played harmonica in the pub where I was born...

where is my ale ?

4 years from some one liked this song 😎🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

If you say it's the whole album, for fucksake play the whole album!

No one said it was the whole album

This was my brother's drinking song, cheers! 🍻

For Donny in White City Purealternative FM Request Rock Show tonight Simon Barnett And Sir TM

The best music ever

Amazing lyrics. If you try and sing in time it is very difficult.

FAR AWAY!!!

best Irish song ever

Ireland yeah

Happy St. Patrick's Day folks! ☘️🍻

Pog Mo Thoin

love Irlande et Ecosse .

The hebreatic ,the Ukraine at least I'm not halfjan.

Je vous écoute et aime depuis mes 16 ans ...J'en 49 maintenant et je vous aimes toujours autant !!

Can't stop dancing!!

Such poignant lyrics - 'Some people left for heaven without warnin''. Funny and poignant and well-written lyrics.

I wanna meet this jimmy

He died, in the song.

"SOUL" music!...... By it's truest definition :) ..
- Dan'Sin Pain .. bass/vox for DSM Global Collective.
Thanks for posting ;) ...

"FAR AWAY!"

Great funeral song will be mine and the bastards better drink😂😂

Shotgun

Far away! Shane true republican. God bless ya.

Playing this song at my dear brothers funeral next week
One of his favourites
Rip Brenny boy
Love and miss you to the end xxxxx

Well Jimmy played harmonica in the pub where I was born
He played it from the night time to the peaceful early morn
He soothed the souls of psychos and the men who had the horn
And they all looked very happy in the morning
Now Jimmy didn't like his place in this world of ours
Where the elephant man broke strong men's necks
When he'd had too many powers
So sad to see the grieving of the people that he's leaving
And he took the road for god knows in the morning
We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing him again
(Far away) sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey 'cause I'm going far away (far away)
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer and to Sally Maclennane
The years passed by the times had changed I grew to be a man
I learned to love the virtues of sweet Sally Maclennane
I took the jeers and drank the beers and crawled back home at dawn
And ended up a barman in the morning
I played the pump and took the hump and watered whiskey down
I talked of whores and horses to the men who drank the brown
I heard them say that Jimmy's making money far away
And some people left for heaven without warning
We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing him again
(Far away) sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey 'cause I'm going far away (far away)
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer and to Sally Maclennane
When Jimmy came back home he was surprised that they were gone
He asked me all the details of the train that they went on
Some people they are scared to croak but Jimmy drank until he choked
And he took the road for heaven in the morning
We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing him again
(Far away) sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey 'cause I'm going far away (far away)
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer and to Sally Maclennane

A big hug from France to our Irish brothers !

getting drunk to this song is the best!!!"!

Is this Irish or scottish

Saw these guys live many times in the 80s - and a few years ago in Brixton when they did the whole of the second album - absolutely fantastic every time!

Great song I have been in pubs all over but best place is in majorca song is given the up lift that the song is everybody from everywhere singing it

Is the train reference related to the era of funeral trains?

Well Jimmy played harmonica in the pub where I was born
He played it from the night time to the peaceful early morn
He soothed the souls of psychos and the men who had the horn
And they all looked very happy in the morning

Now Jimmy didn't like his place in this world of ours
Where the elephant man broke strong men's necks
When he'd had too many powers
So sad to see the grieving of the people that he's leaving
And he took the road for god knows in the morning

We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing him again
(far away) sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey 'cause I'm going far away (far away)
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer and to Sally Maclennane

The years passed by the times had changed I grew to be a man
I learned to love the virtues of sweet Sally Maclennane
I took the jeers and drank the beers and crawled back home at dawn
And ended up a barman in the morning

I played the pump and took the hump and watered whiskey down
I talked of whores and horses to the men who drank the brown
I heard them say that Jimmy's making money far away
And some people left for heaven without warning

We walked them to the station in the rain
We kissed them as we put him on the train
And we sang them a song of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing them again
(far away) sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey 'cause I'm going far away (far away)
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer and to Sally Maclennane

When Jimmy came back home he was surprised that they were gone
He asked me all the details of the train that they went on
Some people they are scared to croak but Jimmy drank until he choked
And he took the road for heaven in the morning

We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing him again
(far away) sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey 'cause I'm going far away (far away)
I'd like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer and to Sally Maclennane

@Damien Joseph
"Took the hump" could mean like "to conquer".

But, I guess little phrase like this, called idioms, are always subjective and regional in interpretation.

@MotesYT yeah in American it could mean something different but Irish English especially London it means to take the hump, which means you're annoyed

Thanks stevenson356

Thank you!

Ill drink to dat

my dad wakes me up every morning with this song :/

Could be worse

@Maxumoto Yep, his dad could of been a fan of Justin Bieber.

This is amazing way of doing this!

the Boians were the first to call themselves Kelts! GABRETA GO BRA all hail to boians!

it's not where yr born it's where yr heat is

Good god, what a sad and beautiful song.

Best comment so far ....... Honest reactions seem scarse these days ;)

One of my favorites by the Pogues !!! --- Outstanding !!!! --- No.===> Outstandingly WONDERFUL !!!!

Jimmys makin' money far away.

We have a band playing Pogues songs in the new forest area, ( THE SCUFFLE HUNTERS) , look out got them at the end of the year, we have heard them putting songs together , they sound great (the dogs bollicks)

pass us the ALE YE LIGHT WEIGHT

counting down to patts...

The best pisshead song ever,I love drinkioops bit pissed.

lion king there used to be a pub in my local city called the griffin and before they rang last orders on the weekend they always played this tune. It had all the regulars howling along when leaving.

Far away!!!!

GUINESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

love being irish 😃😃😃😃😎😎😎😎

un salut de France au irlandais ! I love pogues 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

Gaetan Dubreuil 🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@王 北朝鲜成 wow no British flags please, the Irish had a lot of bad things done to them by the British. Also you have the Irish flag back to front. That's actually the ivory coast flag and not the Irish

@Ct- 4040 fish and chips friend

@王 北朝鲜成 .............. all I can do is laugh 😂😂😂, yes fish and chips my friend

wow I wish I'd been able to lose my happy ass shit to this at a pogues show back in the day . I can only imagine how fun n nuts the crowd got when they played this. <3

You have no idea. I was at the show at the Ritz in NYC for the Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash tour.

I saw them eight times growing up. Some better than others, but Barrowlands in Glasgow is unforgettable. Drink, sweat, tears, joy, mania, hope, despair and all for a tenner. If only the kids had their likes today.

1 milli views!

And they all looked very happy in the mornin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feels like F**kin' Meself with a Carrot as I listen to this "Masterpiece 'O Shane".....aye.
(Shane, you're a Living Legend,Man!...Please stay one (the Living part, mainly).....
RB musicmaker/fan/a-hole/deceasedand retiredfromTheScene. L.A.M.F. !!!

The Pogues is t Best.      Shane McGowan come on start t band again....... LOVE ALL SONGS. More consert ,,, more .....

he had a very bad fall three years ago. progress is very slow. he is recuperating.

he looks dreadful these days does Shane McGowan. he was on an Irish chat show. he should not have been on tv .

Poor Jimmy

your round???

FAR AWAY!!!!!!! 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

this helped me run a 50min 10k!!!!!!! what a workout song???

bettere had a shot too ya mary

john hughes average Irish traveling person. Could 50mile in 10

It's great but there are much better workout songs (C&C Thang by Frank Klepacki could make you do 10k in 25 minutes easy)

not on a rocky road though.

The Wire. Jimmy and the Bunk wasted at the wake.

brilliant :)

"On a fucking StairMaster"

Which is it - this one or "Body of an American"? One way or the other, nice tune.

Rick Huber both, the Bunk is puking outside while this plays.

Munene Ng'ang'a and he came back in through a locked door and did it all again !!

tu peut pas être malheureux aves un peuple comme ca

We're in the last 16! ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽

Northern or Republic of Ireland?

Amusant, tout plein de souvenirs (à petite dose)

Every cunt want s to Eire

i do 😎😎

Melissa Ward we don't want cunts , females and males yes , the just cunts nah 🤒🤒 we've a whole island of them next door apart from the scots

im irish and i cant wait to belt this later when im drunk

+Ger Higgins me over here like... I'm Irish/welsh.

Saoirse Wood ah the welsh are cool too!

Ger Higgins fuck yeah they are

I am Swiss and love Irish Pogues and Irish music

I may or may not have a similar second name

Poguetry in motion

we bear bnemars suck my ccok

love the comments here!

merry christmas everyone

Danny Grey Happy Halloween 🎃

Those Irish :)

Love the name mate couldn't spell it even If I was looking at it

@Kris Mellon

hehehe, everyone have problem with this :p

+Rudolf Brzęczyszczykiewicz Polski urok ;p

The Wire.

Zachary Antho

Makes you drunk just by listening...

Alexander Campbell the only time you have to worry about an Irish man carrying a gun is if you annoyed him in some way

This was my brother's drinking song.

Makes you Irish just by earing ;-) Love from france lads !

@Paul Charlton sad to say, I must be on my way...

Avoid hangovers. stay drunk

This is actually a pretty sad song if you listen to the words...

that is the beauty of the Irish, make a celebration of tragedy.

They're all sad. The Pogues are IRISH.

That's Irish luck. Like "I just stepped in dog crap. Good thing I wasn't wearing me good shoes! I'm a lucky person."

There's nothing sad about it you tosser .. It's a great way to live and die.

+whosplayingyou29 try Finnegan’s Wake.

To my Friend Ron Kramer in Cincinnati if you ever run across this, remember me!

This is my youtube channel from back in the day. I cannot get into it now!

@OOZiTen and 248 subscribers! fuck.

@OOZiTen Fuck yeah! I'm in after like 4 years!

You guys should check out my new upload of my band! We are opening for DRI today!

+punkskaTV Hell yeah, I will

The Irish folk know how to enjoy themselves

nice music but you must be all fucking morons to listen to the first track twice then german fucking adverts between each track

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Nothing better than True Irish Music!

+Clifford Mckercher the Pogues are from London.

+peacefrog1916 London Irish!

+peacefrog1916 Shane McGowan born in tipperary

FUCKN BRILL, DOUBLE BRANDY TIME. ME CAT JUST WRECKED THE BUDGIES CAGE.

Love this song. Fucking great

LETS GET DRUNK!!!!!!!!!!

BRING OUT THE BLACK STUFF !!
cracking song !!

luv ya shane she ya soon.... word is out that ya comin home.. see ya philly's

whoooooo!

My brother was in Chico, California visiting an old friend while recovering from an injury he sustained from a belligerent drunken mental asylum escapee assaulting him in a parking garage (don't worry, the mean old nut was sent back to the loony bin after a security guard apprehended him). He went to an authentic Irish pub with his friend while in a wheelchair and they both played this song together as they drank some good strong stout. My bother is proud to call *Sally MacLennane* by The Pogues his drinking song.

FAR AWAY!!!

Good man! ...... "FAR AWAY!"

It's NOT European It's IRISH

I'd put Ronnie Drew above Luke Kelly, even though Luke was technically more skilled. Just a matter of taste, I guess.
I think Shane is a great vocalist though and it is him I tend to emulate when I sing Irish trad.

Danny Boland Music but was BORN in Ireland as well just raised in England

UK and Ireland are not europe. No matter what anyone tells you . Lived in England for 15 years

As long as ireland keeps taking eu grants your gonna be labelled European

Christy Moore is better than any1

I was listening to this at 3am on St Patrick's Day before heading to work.. Fantastic!

Drinking a few pints of Guinness and listening to this tune in flan o briens pub, in the city of bath. What a b'day I had. Fabulous !!!!!

HAPPY ST PATRICKS DAY GUYS!!!🍀🍻💚

They played this in my local pub when a German friend of ours was emigrating from London to Switzerland.  He said it was the best send off he could have wished for and thanked all the Irish, English and Scottish friends he had made over the years.

Great song

Best Irish music ever

Did he come back? He should have done according to the song

Chris Conlon

According to the song, he died.

@CorathTheHung He died in his home town after he returned. 1:51

I love so much the Pogues. The first time I arrived in a pub in Cork, they were playing their songs and I felt I was home :)

Long live Oliver Cromwell!

Fuck the Pope!

mind that time we skinned you alive?

oliver cromwell STICK A TURNIP UP YOUR HOLE.

a few honest men are better than numbers

prepare to receive the true lord !

oliver cromwell HE LIVES IN HELL.