This song about faggots and *****, do you think it should have been banned, it seems to me like a fart in a glass of water. It's a nice song after all and one of the poges was on the tv tonight pi$$ed as a fart and sounding a bit Scotty, which is probably the main problem. The trains should never have gone beyond Carlisle.
Well, being of the older generation, it is only now becoming a "must-have" xmas song for me, and there again I didn't hear the words for a long time, but hey, leave it as it is.
Given that Shane Magowan, Andrew Rankin, Darryl Hunt, James Fearnley, and Spider Stacey are English, Cait O'Riordan is Nigerian, and Phil Chevron and Terry Woods Irish, you could possibly stop worrying about the Scots influence.
As for the song - it's poetical and beautiful, and the language reflects the characters. And if it hasn't offended the millions who bought it, why are the beeb getting so touchy?
Thank you Beads, that helps immensely, I shall sleep more securely tonight. I can't tell if you are Scottish, but there are treatments nowadays anyway.
Why thank you Beads, this seems to have been a generally all-round helpful thread. I've got a film of a train going into Glasgow, the crew look apprehensive and I think they are just being wusses.
Oi ! It was The POGUES not Poges (calm down J, calm down)........ and I shall send you a (legit) copy of their "Very Best Of" album in the New Year (when all this christmas stuff is out the way), so you can hear just how great they were !