Boys From the County Hell
1984 · Stiff SEEZ55 · London, UK: England
- Artist
- The Pogues
- Title
- Boys From the County Hell
- Release
- Red Roses for Me
- Year
- 1984
- Label
- Stiff # SEEZ55
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- London, UK: England
- Songwriter
- Shane Macgowan
- Genre
- Rock · Celtic Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
The song Boys From the County Hell (Pogues, The) Formed 1982, King's Cross, Greater London, United Kingdom My Lai massacre reference "The boys and me are drunk and looking for you We'll eat your frigging entrails and we won't give a damn Me daddy was a blue shirt and my mother a madam And my brother earned his medals at My Lai in Vietnam"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — European Songs
The song Boys From the County Hell (Pogues, The) Formed 1982, King's Cross, Greater London, United Kingdom My Lai massacre reference "The boys and me are drunk and looking for you / We'll eat your frigging entrails and we won't give a damn / Me daddy was a blue shirt and my mother a madam / And my brother earned his medals at My Lai in Vietnam"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Formed 1982, King's Cross, Greater London, UK. Disbanded 2014