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Originally Posted by Derek Wheeler
Just got word from T Stamp that he watched Patsy Watchorn (a HE, not a SHE) sing it every Saturday night in the Lower Deck. So both Stamp and Watchorn are wrong.
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Actually, it was this song:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pogues/..._20109774.html
Poor Paddy Works on the railway/ working on the railway.
Oh, and Patsy Watchorn is a little known minor musician who led a never heard of it band called The Dublin City Ramblers and this very day leads a group of nobodies called The Dubliners. He also had this song written for him:
http://www.lyricsmagnet.com/song/IRI...cs_clirrz.html
but you wouldn't expect these Kildare heads to know that sort of thing.
I apologise for not knowing such an obscure railway related song (Derek's one) however, the P11TV Greatest Hits of the Railway presented by Derek "Preservation" Wheeler will be in the bargain bin of all bad record shops, and IRN, soon.