Pogues, The - Lullaby Of London Lyrics

Awesome!,nice biography of pictures of a genius

In my opinion this is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. For some reason it makes me weep. Life can be so hard. Thank God for songs like these.

Fairytale of New York maybe the best Christmas Song Ever, but this is one of their best songs ever.

Incredible ❤️❤️❤️❤️

May the wind that blows from haunted graves
Never bring you misery
May the angels bright
Watch you tonight
And keep you while you sleep

So sad why are you leaving us in europe ? alone is not strong you should know it ?

The UK was taken into the EU without its citizens being asked if that was what they wanted.When they were finally asked the majority who voted said no. They were told that their choice would be respected.They are still waiting.

What an utterly perfect song.

so i pray ... tonight that you sleep my wild when you hear this lullaby 👻

Goodness me that's so beautiful ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

за дашу берёт

Reading Marcel Proust and listening The Pouges. Sometimes take Lyrica...

This is the purest love song ever, Cheers from Upper Canada! ✌❤

Possibly one of the most beautiful songs ever sung. I've loved this for many years.

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Beautiful song, used to try and sing to my daughter as she was a tired baby in the shadow of the Wicklow mountains.

A very drunken morning this song came to me and I see a real paradise for a few minutes 😊

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It's such a beautiful song. It works for so many aspects of life. I personally link it to departure and having to say goodbye to a loved one. Not necessary through death, but more so if somebody you love is moving away from home to another city or country.

As I walk on
With a heavy heart 💔

I will sing this to my (future) kids

The best poet that ever lived, listen and listen close to the words and the feeling in each of them. Hear what he says I know you will appreciate. Very heavy, second verse, want played at my wedding or my funeral if I don’t make it that far.

-sent to my brother

A song to my dad a union man a fighting man nyc

Respect lad.
Your dads like mine .working class and proud.

Have you ever been lonely?
I have, this song will help, if youre lucky enough to know it

Lisa O'Neills cover of this is amazing and worth a listen.

Wonderful song

I love this song too !.

Thanks shane....u are awesome good poetry...

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I'm writing dis on my mrs's pg live near rvr 7 b my funeral song Shannon!!

Why is this "video" more than a minute longer than the song?

Lo que ha cambiado Londres, ahora todo lleno de gentuza, DEFEND EUROPE, from Madrid.

What a beauty of a song. Hats off to Shane he is some man for writing beautiful lyrics.

0:39 ohhh lovely Cait!!!

Это великолепно!

i never heard oh The Pogues until i was 20 on my holiday trip to Ireland Dublin...and best trip ever!!!...and it happened that i walked in their Walk of Fame( Temple Bar)..and this song was playing...fall in love straight away :)

This song is similar in theme to Thousands are Sailing from the same album. Thousands was the US and this is London. MacGowan wrote this one, Philip Chevron wrote Thousands.
They are both lonesome songs about Irish emigrants who have died. Thousands had other themes but referenced the coffin ships during the the Irish Famine where this doesn't directly say the cause of the London deaths but one may assume it is drink related. To die from drink may be seen as something immoral ('down in hell tonight'). MacGowan has written this lullaby to helped a loved one sleep who would have witnessed these deaths and protect the person from the ghosts.
But this song is littered with incredible imagery for over half the song. My favourite bit is 'Heard a long gone song from days gone by, Blown in on the great North wind'. MacGowan often spoke of his gift for songwriting as being akin to a tune or idea coming to him on the wind. Pure genius.

TheEamoB I love your accurate take on this amazing song and wholeheartedly agree with you. Both lyrically and musically it’s the best!

Some lesser people are born to sing, others to drill our souls.

Beautiful. 💜💜💜😙😙

61 people must get no sleep at all from those bastard ghosts.

I sort of like the instrumental background, and the song itself is pretty good. The singer needs to sober up .

Of course, the noth Londin band..

R A Z A B L A N C A

...najveci si na svijetu i to ces zauvijek za mene biti! Shane, ti si apsolutni genijalac....

Absolutely brilliant. Shane may need teeth and speech teacher when talking but he has more musical talent in his left pinky finger than anyone in the Top 100 today.
Stay well Shane -- the world needs more of your music and lyrics. Much more. You're not a singer -- you're an artist.

One of his best

Downvoted because a minute and a half of dead space at the end totally fucks it up for a playlist. Fuck right the hell off.

Bless you Shane. We have walked a similar path. Many gifts bestowed upon us but tempted by all the poisons. Thought I would be gone by now but at least I have your music to carry me onward.

Heard this in Angel Seaon 3 last episode and couldn't find the bloody thing... I knew voice sounded familiar.

reflections of a gartan mother's lullaby
peace boys

This song makes me feel sane x

Great song from a great album. And your video is excellent too. Thank you.

Sometimes a song is just so beautiful all you can do is listen in awe - thanks Shane!

When London was Irish all but go now but lives in its music sad thing young irish in clapping had never head of crickwood Kilburn archway and all the way down to kentish and Camden good my favourite bars were archway tavern Boston arms up near archway and national up in kilburn threat times with Ursha from co Louth I wouldn’t if she remembers xx

Written by MacGowan, Shane

Ronnie said it it was true! Is Brea liom tu Pogues!

R A Z A B L A N C A

Blacksmiths make beautiful things from iron, silver and goldsmiths make beautiful things from silver and gold, Shane is a wordsmith, he makes beautiful things out of words

Well said my firiend. Pure poetry this song.

Oh the pogues in London in the late 80s Kilburn Cricklewood the national Camden all the way up to the archway tavern had to believe it was so long ago and is no more......

Poguetry in motion,
Shane MacGowan the poet.

Nothing better than a pogues gig! Miss those days

You're not the only one.
Shane ooooo

can someone explain me what is the mining of 'CORNCRAKES CRY'" please

Sharon Alexander
Think it's a rare/distinct bird!

corncrake was once a common bird all over ireland , but now its quite rare although its numbers are increasing each year.
a genius mind like shane will know all about the corncrake

NON MI PIACCIONO.

does anyone know the name of the portrait at 0:35

Why does this bloody song make me cry every time?

Pure class...love this song. My favourite song of all time.

Brilliant!

He makes it seem all so easy...

The lyrics are just amazing

LOVE the way Shane sings
"That kissed the Riverside"
Beautiful!!

Best band ever

¤ Just LOVELY ¤¤¤¤♡

Literally gives me goosebumps...............Stunning!

Love this

Mick D RIP

Thanks a million Great slide show had to play it to the end needless to say I liked a lot

Masterpiece

A Song made by a Genius!!!!

Absolutely, couldn't agree more!!

My Favorite Pogues song.
I wish he’d written it about Dublin,where I’m from :)

Shane MacGowan is in my opinion one of if not the greatest song writer of the 20th and 21st century

I definitely agree with you.

I don't know if he is the best but he is definitely in the top one!!

pimphandstrong that's so cool...

MAYBE HE DIDNT LISTEN TO LEONARD COHEN

As I walked down by the riverside
One evening in the spring
Heard a long gone song
From days gone by
Blown in on the great North wind

Though there is no lonesome corncrake's cry
Of sorrow and delight
You can hear the cars
And the shouts from bars
And the laughter and the fights

May the ghosts that howled
Round the house at night
Never keep you from your sleep
May they all sleep tight
Down in hell tonight
Or wherever they may be

As I walked on with a heavy heart
Then a stone danced on the tide
And the song went on
Though the lights were gone

And the North wind gently sighed
And an evening breeze coming from the East
That kissed the riverside
So I pray now child that you sleep tonight

When you hear this lullaby
May the wind that blows from haunted graves
Never bring you misery
May the angels bright

Watch you tonight
And keep you while you sleep

Thanks you

Go raibn mile maith agat.

God bless you

Gustavus Adolphus lovely post

Thank you. Beautiful poem

abit like a prototype Marilyn Manson without the makeup

Truly my favorite pouges song. Hands down the best

The best song of all time....my favourite, both lyrically and musically.

Big up Holloway-Irish xxx

Sean Spillane
Yay..big up Gresham, Archway Tavern the cock...oh what nights back in the days,what great memories!!!

What a song how did he never get more recognition for his talent

Brilliant

the pogues are the best band in ireland shane is my idol up ireland and up the pogues

its poetry + history = connection

The angst soul of hope brings MacGowan and the boys. May we all live and die blessed properly.

Shane born on Christmas Day in Tipperary, Ireland. On the shore of the Shannon. IS IRISH. Family moved to England for work, along with thousands of other Irish. And Fenian, so please don't get it twisted. Know yer history before you start trying to claim him, research like ya dum fucks should've done with BREXIT ! Ya know... BREXIT. BRITS EXIT. Great idea ! Get the fuck out of Ulster and do us all a favor, you half- assed cunts. Slainte ! Brittania is a fucking THIRD WORLD COUNTRY NOW !!! Karma, ya bitches. *Shane laugh*

get a life you sad fuck

Great song. Love the Pogues. long live Shane Macgowan

Exquisite.

RONNIE DREW SAID SHANE WAS A GENUIS. THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.

That's coming from a genius

I couldn't agree more.  If Ronnie regarded Shane as a genius, so be it.

Fuckin A

David Bowie described him as the only living poet worth listening too

if you can pen 3 great songs and get them played everywhere. You got a meal ticket for life. . i,m still trying. lolol

I so much have loved Shane and his genius for over 30 years and now my daughter and son appreciate them too. Thank you Shane!