Pogues, The - The Sunnyside Of The Street Lyrics






Seen the carnival at Rome
Had the women I had the booze
All I can remember now
Is little kids without no shoes
So I saw that train
And I got on it
With a heartful of hate
And a lust for vomit
Now I'm walking on the sunnyside of the street

Stepped over bodies in Bombay
Tried to make it to the U.S.A.
Ended up in Nepal
Up on the roof with nothing at all
And I knew that day
I was going to stay
Right where I am, on the sunnyside of the street

Been in a palace, been in a jail
I just don't want to be reborn a snail
Just want to spend eternity
Right where I am, on the sunnyside of the street

As my mother wept it was then I swore
To take my life as I would a whore
I know I'm better than before
I will not be reconstructed
Just wanna stay right here
On the sunnyside of the street





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  1. A.... K....

    London in the 80s was a great place ,seeing these boys in their hey day made it even better ,from the Holloway rd to Kilburn,Camden Town to the Swan

  2. f.... l....

    A Piero, cedro, Ricky, Beppe, Rino, Luca.. E tutti quelli che c erano quel estate nel siam

  3. G.... S....

    I want that!

  4. p.... ....

    Just epic!

  5. R.... N....

    ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

  6. M.... R....

    XENOPHOBIA against the spanish people hahahahaha pero si somos vuestros padre bastardos ignorantes

  7. M.... R....

    The book of the invasions: O´Shea LOS QUE VIENEN DEL MAR

  8. B.... J....

    I found this CD for $1 in a thrift store 15 or 16 years ago. I got my first speeding ticket while listening to it. 90mph in a 45mph. My mom's Oldsmobile Cutlass, using a tape adapter.

  9. t.... ....

    11 years old this video barely hit 2 million views... compared to the shit out right now this should be a crime

  10. V.... T....

    Well he is past all of the drinking now and the partying I hope he is doing ok
    He had been through alot

  11. M.... R....

    Dirty Old Town is total shit compared to this. This is the BEST thing The Pogues ever did.

  12. O.... ....

    Should I use this in my wedding?

    O.... ....

    Give it a lash.

  13. S.... J....

    And I knew that day...

  14. J.... W....

    I love it

  15. S.... M....

    One of Shane's best.

  16. �.... ....

    テンション上がります

  17. D.... S....

    Interesting band, but the drunk lead singer (Shane, I guess) sort of spoils it. I guess they're good enough for England.

    D.... S....

    So was there a contest where you are to be the most offensive? Tell him he's good enough for england to his face. Be a hoot to see your teeth end up worse than his

  18. K.... S....

    Love the Poģues Shane Mc Gowan damm great songwriter and great singer unfoŕtunately drugaddictuon did him iñ.sad still love his writing is a choice of the best my heart KARIN

  19. I.... A....

    You can hear Joe Strummer's influence on this album

  20. C.... R....

    Great track!!!

  21. D.... ....

    The. Fucking. Best.

  22. C.... R....

    Folk and Punk, what a natural combination!

  23. r.... ....

    Am I the only person who loves the album this song was taken from? (apart from the song Six to go of course)!

  24. W.... H....

    Very good

  25. T.... P....

    Joe Strummer

  26. J.... ....

    Listening to this hammered on my 21st Birthday. Epic!

  27. D.... S....

    One of my favourite Pogues songs, love it.

  28. A.... P....

    Thanks..from Brazil...

  29. K.... F....

    Genius 60 up

  30. A.... W....

    Always reminds me of sitting in a pub on a sunlit spring afternoon when you really should be doing something more useful.

    A.... W....

    That gave me a good laugh!

  31. C.... D....

    Seen the carnival at Rome
    Had the women, I had the booze
    All that I can remember now
    Is little kids without no shoes

    So, I saw that train and I got on it
    With a heartful of hate and a lust for vomit
    Now I'm walking on the sunnyside of the street

    Stepped over bodies in Bombay
    Tried to make it to the U.S.A.
    Ended up in Nepal
    Up on the roof with nothing at all
    And I knew that day
    I was going to stay right where I am
    On the sunnyside of the street

    Been in a palace, been in a jail
    I just don't want to be reborn a snail
    Just want to spend eternity right where I am
    On the sunnyside of the street

    As my mother wept it was then I swore
    To take my life as I would a whore
    I know I'm better than before
    I will not be reconstructed

    Just want to stay right here
    The sunnyside of the street
    The sunnyside of the street
    The sunnyside of the street
    The sunnyside of the street.

  32. t.... t....

    This is what you call music

  33. H.... J....

    Right where I am!

  34. A.... S....

    This song's even better if you've got a severe concussion. Imagine what it would be like if you were actually dead!

  35. d.... ....

    At their peak, there was no better band than The Pogues and no better frontman than Shane. And the band was awesome, full of great musicians. (Remembering the faithfully departed Philip Chevron)

    d.... ....

    I forgot what was Phil Chevron's real name? It was a great Irish name.

    d.... ....

    @hooleyqueen He was born Philip Ryan.

    d.... ....

    there is still no better band

  36. m.... ....

    The Greatest "I don't give a fuck" drinking song ever!

  37. c.... c....

    Joe Strummer was the producer of this album

    c.... c....

    And he did a great job, too! I think he liked throwing chairs around like Guy Steven's did while producing London Calling.

  38. M.... R....

    GOD SAVE TO SHANE MCCOWAN. CHEERS AND GRETINGS FROM SPAIN

    M.... R....

    Manu Real Romo Shane just got married!

  39. p.... ....

    Check more Punkish cover from Happy Ol'McWeasel!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNoDJODE5qk

    Sunny side of the street!

  40. M.... ....

    Now, THIS is true party music, fuck Kygo.
    Pogues rocks my socks.
    Cheers from Norway.

  41. S.... ....

    Britishers are such wankers - always drunk or doped-up. What kind of contribution do you imagine you're making to the planet?

    S.... ....

    Ooo..soneone's been eating the hate-biscuits!-- get out much?...just wondering...

    S.... ....

    I have visited Britain. How could anyone choose to continue to live there? You'd need to hate good weather and good food as well as hating to learn what happens abroad.

    S.... ....

    You have a good grasp of the language- but seem to be a wee bit of a Nazi- by condemning a whole ethnic group due to your distaste in the weather and snacks... we are fairly multi-cultural, as are most countries - and all the richer for it, and will celebrate the fact.
    I'm glad you only visited- ie: you fucked off and didn't return, because attitudes like yours belong in dictatorial states- you should run for Pope, or Fuhrer- or get in to N Korea!- you would do well...

    S.... ....

    You have the Tories, so far be it from me to add to the troubles of the land of Jimmy Savile, grooming and Buckfast. Your soccer clubs belong to Qataris or Americans, and the good players are all imported. Apart from the name of the town or city associated with a club, there's nothing British about them. Thanks to the effects of Brexit on the Pound Sterling, I have been able to buy three properties in London's Kensington district at bargain-prices. Just keep sending the rent, my friend :-)

    S.... ....

    Mission Viejo, California the United States in Orange county and Laguna beach is where u live now you rock.

  42. A.... N....

    i listened to this song drunk in three continents is that immaculate

    A.... N....

    I think you mean three continents.

  43. K.... M....

    can anyone tell me what this album is?
    please just reply to let me know, thanks

    K.... M....

    Kirsteen McCallum Hells Ditch the fourth Album of The Pogues

  44. b.... m....

    The best drinking song ever.

  45. P.... S....

    And Joe's production is beautifull! He also co-produced/co-wrote BAD's No 10 Upping Street. What a genius! He and Shane!!!!

  46. M.... P....

    Srbi su jedini narod u Evropi koji obožavaju Irce

  47. A.... F....

    OMG!!! I love this band.

  48. B.... P....

    The best classic

  49. E.... T....

    I seem to be the only Aussie who loves and worships music by the Pogues, Dubliners, Gaelic Storm, Dropkick Murphys....ah, fuck it, I'd be here all night listing every Irish music group I love and worship....time better spent listening to said music over a pint or 50. Just a major pain in the arse when no place in Sydney (or Australia for that matter) has any of these great bands CDs available. I have to order these from overseas online. Yet I would have absolutely no problem buying Eminem or some other white-trash rap, that stuff is aplenty. Personally I always thought it was dishonest, white blokes and the black-American music (no racism intended - I have heard rap by the earliest artists - Africa Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash and the like - and they are brilliant. In fact the only rap / hip-hop that I actually like. Even Will Smith did a good job back in the day. Rap should really just be something left to those who do it best. Who the hell wants to hear songs about how they got their dick sucked? The only white rap band I like funnily enough is the Irish-American rap group House of Pain)

    No doubt am coming back from Ireland this year with excess baggage - CDs of all my favo Irish bands. The excess luggage fee will be fucking worth it

  50. S.... ....

    Seen the carnival at Rome
    Had the women I had the booze
    All I can remember now
    Is little kids without no shoes
    So I saw that train
    And I got on it
    With a heartful of hate
    And a lust for vomit
    Now I'm walking on the sunnyside of the street

    Stepped over bodies in Bombay
    Tried to make it to the U.S.A.
    Ended up in Nepal
    Up on the roof with nothing at all
    And I knew that day
    I was going to stay
    Right where I am, on the sunnyside of the street

    Been in a palace, been in a jail
    I just don't want to be reborn a snail
    Just want to spend eternity
    Right where I am, on the sunnyside of the street

    As my mother wept it was then I swore
    To take my life as I would a whore
    I know I'm better than before
    I will not be reconstructed
    Just wanna stay right here
    On the sunnyside of the street

    S.... ....

    stake not take!

    S.... ....

    Thanks from France mate👍

    S.... ....

    STIPAN, THIS IS THE THIRD TAKE AT THIS COMMENT. THANKS FOR THE TRANSLATION.... OH BLOODY FUCK!

    my first 2 comments were so funny.....at least I thought so.

    oh, well...

    S.... ....

    Thank you 🙏🏻

  51. J.... ....

    I'm playing this song for my school band and it's truly amazing

  52. F.... M....

    I came here from Matt Hensley's part in the Black Label video

  53. J.... K....

    Pogue Mahone!!!!!!!

  54. m.... ....

    Happy st paddys day

  55. K.... O....

    This is how Irish people fight back.

  56. C.... B....

    42 PEOPLE IN THE SHADE

  57. M.... K....

    WHAT A FKN GREAT TUNE. BOTTLE OF BRANDY IN ONE HAND AND A GORGEOUS IRISH GIRL ON THE OTHER HAND. HEAVEN.

  58. M.... M....

    ihaaaaaa

  59. R.... N....

    I never meet others in Bangladesh who like the same music as I do.. Well, my girl, but she's not from here. I listened to this band a lot when I was starting to contemplate giving up on Western life and moving back here, where my parents were born.. Finally took the plunge - best fucking thing I ever did. Found a more genuine life for myself.. Yeah, it's dirty and people are poor.. But, what does that matter. Thankfully have music like this to remind me of what is fucking real.

  60. G.... ....

    Ireland is now a bitch of the EU. Little Somalia

    G.... ....

    yea, economic growth sucks

  61. S.... T....

    Its always sunny when I hear the Pogues!

  62. j.... 6....

    wise words shane,,,hope he keepin well.legend forever

  63. S.... a....

    https://www.facebook.com/Aranbikees-194858654283659/

  64. b.... c....

    God bless all the Boys from Blanch on the corner many of them have passed on and all the good ones too! good memories of the palm woods, getting locked out of the head down on sick bay by the tolka river.. the put a fuckin motorway right through my childhood memories that's what the cunt's did.. but the " hospital woods" is still there to some degree but it lays empty now.. no more reckless nights of abandon.. no more legging it from the old bill as Blancharstown has lost its soul.. it's all played out as they say and I long to be back in long summer day's with lost and crazy people running around like headless chickens from one drink to the next.. fuck it I gonna get a bag of tinny's and go down the the woods to look for something I know ain't there.. but I am going any way. the Lazla.

  65. F.... d....

    Superb !

  66. S.... ....

    As I stumble drunk down the street, I'm glad-drunk, because I'm stumbling down the sunny-side of the street. :)

  67. C.... B....

    To understand fully, you must be drunk, and have PTSD

    C.... B....

    Cooper Bradford YEA

  68. E.... s....

    ich bin 11 und finde dieses Lied einfach nur toll
    mein Papa hat es auf CD
    hörs mir Mega oft an

    E.... s....

    Yepper. Nail on the head, you done hit it. Now pass the bottle of schnapps.

    E.... s....

    Too right mate I get you fuck the queen and the UDA

  69. M.... C....

    No other song wants me to jump off the wagon like this song.

  70. B.... ....

    How can any of these fucks down this?? Pisses me off. Musicless shits.

    B.... ....

    Because they have no souls, no light behind the eyes.

    B.... ....

    they're just fucking with you. . .not worth getting pissed. . .have another pint. ;)

    B.... ....

    They are shiy scared coz the lyrics are true

  71. G.... ....

    i wanna drink and go to the stadium

  72. S.... ....

    Youve only experienced half this songs beauty if you havent listened to it drunk😏

    S.... ....

    preferably jamesons or bushmills ;-)

    S.... ....

    I used to sing all my favourite pogues Songs pissed to pieces in the early Morning on the Reeperbahn in St.Pauli, sometimes got cheers, sometimes a bloody nose...These were the days, god bless the pogues!

    S.... ....

    @Fa Cube Itches Well, I have to fight the urge when I'm listening to them on a long drive...

    S.... ....

    Stoned gets me to the sunny side, so that'll do haha :)

  73. J.... B....

    Cheers to fellow Irish!

  74. i.... a....

    black label brought mr here

  75. M.... W....

    A Cadillac commercial brought me here

  76. d.... ....

    "I will not be reconstructed" :-) Thanks for the upload, needed some Pogues.

    d.... ....

    dlinquencious I

    d.... ....

    dlinquencious I would deconstruct you .. Whatever that means

  77. P.... W....

    The greatest rock band of the 80's and 90's bar none.  Problem was, too few here in America knew that (unlike the many, many, many in the U.K.).

    P.... W....

    Im a 38 year old Portuguese and i grew up listen to this man. Shane is a genious

    P.... W....

    You are wrong. I am always meeting folks who know & love the Pogues. I saw Shane with the Popes in concert in San Francisco. He has a HUGE fan base in SF, NY and all over the US.

    P.... W....

    Peter Welch punk rock mo chara😁👌

    P.... W....

    I love their sound. Wish it wasn't so difficult to understand what their leader singer is saying though.

  78. I.... Z....

    always makes my day

  79. k.... ....

    "Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo" guys

    k.... ....

    hahahah,right

    k.... ....

    Esatto! Grandissimo libro.

    k.... ....

    Ci ha portati tutti qui

  80. l.... 1....

    And i m 100% batak..from Sumatra.. i like you.. pogues

    l.... 1....

    +Labalaba 1 cheers from Basque Country 😊😊😊😊😊

    l.... 1....

    @Carlos Trialara Hallo...Carlos Tralala

  81. W.... ....

    Incredible song! I`ve loving the Pogues from always! 
    If anyone likes instrumental music that I made please visit my channel and thumbs up please :) 
    Remember be always on this side of the street...

  82. A.... D....

    "As my mother wept it was then I swore
    To take my life as I would a whore
    I know I'm better than before
    I will not be reconstructed
    Just wanna stay right here
    On the sunny side of the street!"
    St. MacGowan

  83. J.... H....

    Me likey. One of my all time favorite albums. This song is about farting in a market.

  84. A.... C....

    always stay on the sunny side

    A.... C....

    @Ante CRO or how close you can get till yer there

    A.... C....

    Not always.

    A.... C....

    Try living in Taiwan or Japan, summer time you won't last long on the sunny side of the street ^^ But in Ireland or Scotland, definitely choosing the sunny side.

    A.... C....

    you can only get so close till ye get burned

  85. I.... M....

    najjači su!

    I.... M....

    Јесу, Иване! Поздрав из Бањалуке, а ови остали нек се муче док прочитају :-)

    I.... M....

    Pozdrav Banja luci :)

    I.... M....

    Malo da jebemo Ingliš bojse. Bravo braćo za ukus...

  86. s.... ....

    I'm 100% German and my son 50/50 German/Haitian.WE LOVE the Pogues! No race card being played here.  We like what we LIKE :D  My son likes what I like typically and I am proud to say that he is a Pogues fan....

    s.... ....

    Shouldn't you be listening to the Scorpions? Just kidding. The greatest classical composers of all time were German
    so you get a pass on enjoying Irish folk music (in a way) as opposed to polka or whatever.

    s.... ....

    Why would anyone think you are playing a race card? I think it is great you are German & married a Haitian. I'm Irish-Italian and have a daughter who has a black father. She loves everybody, and is one of the best people I know. Not just sayin' that cuz she's my daughter. All my kids are awesome people who were raised to be open minded, socially & politically progressive and comfortable around all kinds of people. Rock on you & your family (your kids will be beautiful)
    I love the Pogues too.

    s.... ....

    Sounds like daddy didn't stick around hahaha

    s.... ....

    the irish are mainly bastards - and most of them would agree on that XD Tiocfaidh ár lá comrades :D

  87. p.... m....

    in good caos somebody will read this...mostly pogue mahone

  88. m.... p....

    very hieno  meininki l like that :) greetinns from bottom of finland

  89. R.... H....

    i love these guys best band i ever heard i would give my life for them

  90. R.... H....

    why do these people bother recording

  91. D.... C....

    Best band of the last 30 years.

    D.... C....

    @Donal Callum if not more...like alot more.

    D.... C....

    Donal Callum Oasis man

    D.... C....

    ...out of UK.....Los Lobos are the best band overall of past 30 years

    D.... C....

    Donal Callum They're not from the UK.

    D.... C....

    Donal Callum Better than Green Wall (Detroit) ?

  92. �.... ....

    名曲過ぎてもう…(ノД`)

  93. �.... ....

    名曲過ぎてもう…(ノД`)

  94. N.... ....

    Just discovered all songs by Shane, damn feeling so lucky

  95. B.... R....

    Technically 1/4 Irish, but probably more when it comes right down to it!