The Pogues  

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I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
I kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town

--"Dirty Old Town" (1949) by Ewan MacColl

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The Pogues were an English Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan founded in 1982 as Pogue Mahone—an anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic phrase póg mo thóin, meaning "kiss my arse".



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