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The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone, 1962
Traditional
A swaggering boast from a charming Irish rogue, this song finds the narrator crowing about breaking hearts for miles around ("Here I am from Paddy's Land, the land of high renown / I broke the hearts of all the girls for miles round Keady Town"). The song ends with the narrator thinking he's a great match for one of Queen Victoria's daughters, which indicates that this version of the song, at least, was written around 1850-1870. I've been a fan of the Clancys from way, way back, longer than you've been alive, and this is a hit for me. They deliver it as a rollicking singalong, loose, lively, and full of that bar-band camaraderie they made their signature. Even if it's a throwaway lark in their catalog, the performance brims with tongue-in-cheek energy, making it hard not to grin along.
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