This a delightful ballad that I have long liked & had only on tape from a recording I made off the radio. Later I found it posted by knibscratch on YT. My vid uses his soundtrack from the LP for which I thank him very much. The lyrics I have diagnosed from the recording & by using the lyrics of "Bold McShane" (which are nearly the same but have an extra stanza & differ a little in many places). Note that "noggin" in the lyrics is actually a small amount of liquor as pointed out in the comments below. The LP (Broken-Down Gentleman) was released in 1976 & apparently was never digitally released. Finbar & Eddie Furey have done a version of McShane that is on cd which uses the Bold McShane lyrics. I much prefer the John Leonard & John Squire version, both musically & in the lyrics.
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