The Dubliners take you up to Monto
The late Luke Kelly sings this tribute to Dublin’s red light district. Thanks to the Pogues, everyone knows what ‘pogue mahone’ means. The vulgarism that the Dubliners carefully avoid in the refrain by stomping their feet (stomp stomp to you) means ‘balls to you’. Waxies (as in ‘Waxies Dargle’) were candle makers. Educational.

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