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And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

Certain Songs #1594: The Pogues – “And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”

July 27, 2019 by Jim Connelly

Album: Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
Year: 1985

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One of the more interesting things about Rum, Sodomy & The Lash is how it’s structured: the first side is nearly all Shane MacGowan originals (or co-writes), and the second side is nearly all covers.

Even for an Irish Folk-Punk band like the Pogues, that was kind of a risky move, but the riskiest of all was closing the album with an eight-minute dirge about the horrors of war. “And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda,” was written in 1971 by Eric Bogle, an Australian singer-songwriter who was born in Scotland. As so often happens.

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