List of songs recorded by the Pogues

Last updated October 29, 2021

This is a list of songs recorded by The Pogues, an Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band. Most of the songs were composed by band members, especially lead singer Shane MacGowan, though the band's repertoire also includes renditions of folk songs from around the world, and especially from Ireland.

Songs

Song	Composer	Album	Time	Year	Notes	Ref.
"5 Green Queens and Jean"	Jem Finer Shane MacGowan	Hell's Ditch	2:35	1990		^[1]
"Amadie"	Andrew Ranken	Pogue Mahone	1:54	1996		^[2]
"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda"	Eric Bogle	Rum Sodomy & the Lash	8:10	1985		^[3]
"Anniversary"	Finer	Pogue Mahone	4:05	1996		^[2]
"The Auld Triangle"	Brendan Behan Dominic Behan	Red Roses for Me	4:20	1984	Originally composed for Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow	^[4]
"The Battle of Brisbane"	MacGowan	Red Roses for Me	1:49	1984	Instrumental	^[4]
"Billy's Bones"	MacGowan	Rum Sodomy & the Lash	2:02	1985		^[3]
"Big City"	Darryl Hunt	Waiting for Herb	2:41	1993		^[5]
"Blue Heaven"	Phil Chevron Hunt	Peace and Love	3:36	1989		^[6]
"Boat Train"	MacGowan	Peace and Love	2:40	1989		^[6]
"The Body of an American"	MacGowan	Poguetry in Motion	3:05	1986		^[7]
"Bottle of Smoke"	Finer MacGowan	If I Should Fall from Grace with God	2:47	1988		^[8]
"Boys from the County Hell"	MacGowan	Red Roses for Me	2:56	1984		^[4]
"Bright Lights"	Finer	Pogue Mahone	2:32	1996		^[2]
"The Broad Majestic Shannon"	MacGowan	If I Should Fall from Grace with God	2:55	1988		^[8]
"Cotton Fields"	MacGowan	Peace and Love	2:51	1989		^[6]
"Dark Streets of London"	MacGowan	Red Roses for Me	3:33	1984		^[4]
"Dingle Regatta"	MacGowan	Red Roses for Me	2:52	1984	Instrumental	^[4]
"Dirty Old Town"	Ewan MacColl	Rum Sodomy & the Lash	3:45	1985		^[3]
"Down All the Days"	MacGowan	Peace and Love	3:45	1989		^[6]
"Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go"	MacGowan	Red Roses for Me	3:30	1984		^[4]
"Drunken Boat"	James Fearnley	Waiting for Herb	6:38	1993	Partially adapted from "Le Bateau ivre"	^[5]^[9]
"Fairytale of New York"	Finer MacGowan	If I Should Fall from Grace with God	4:36	1988	Featuring Kirsty MacColl	^[8]
"Fiesta"	Finer MacGowan	If I Should Fall from Grace with God	4:13	1988		^[8]
"Four O'Clock in the Morning"	Ranken	Pogue Mahone	3:14	1996		^[2]
"Gartloney Rats"	Terry Woods	Peace and Love	2:32	1989		^[6]
"The Gentleman Soldier"	Traditional	Rum Sodomy & the Lash	2:04	1985		^[3]
"The Ghost of a Smile"	MacGowan	Hell's Ditch	2:58	1990		^[1]
"Girl from the Wadi Hammamat"	Finer Ranken	Waiting for Herb	4:53	1993		^[5]
"Greenland Whale Fisheries"	Traditional	Red Roses for Me	2:36	1984		^[4]
"Gridlock"	Finer Ranken	Peace and Love	3:33	1989	Instrumental	^[6]
"Haunted"	Sid and Nancy soundtrack	Waiting for Herb		1986		^[5]
"Haunting"	Woods	Waiting for Herb	4:04	1993		^[5]
"Hell's Ditch"	Finer MacGowan	Hell's Ditch	3:03	1990		^[1]
"Honky Tonk Women"	Mick Jagger Keith Richards	"Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" B-side	2:55	1990
"How Come"	Ronnie Lane Kevin Westlake	Pogue Mahone	2:50	1996		^[2]
"House of the Gods"	MacGowan	Hell's Ditch	3:46	1990		^[1]
"If I Should Fall from Grace with God"	MacGowan	If I Should Fall from Grace with God	2:20	1988		^[8]
"I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day"	Traditional	Rum Sodomy & the Lash	2:55	1985		^[3]
"The Irish Rover"	Traditional	Single	3:39	1987	Collaboration with The Dubliners
"Jack's Heroes"	Spider Stacy	"Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" B-side	3:05	1990	Collaboration with the Dubliners in support of the Irish national football team
"Jesse James"	Traditional	Rum Sodomy & the Lash	2:58	1985		^[3]
"Kitty"	Traditional	Red Roses for Me	4:23	1984		^[4]
"The Limerick Rake"	Traditional	"Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" B-side	3:10	1990
"Living in a World Without Her"	Hunt James McNally	Pogue Mahone	3:20	1996		^[2]
"London Girl"	MacGowan	Poguetry in Motion	3:05	1986		^[7]
"London You're a Lady"	MacGowan	Peace and Love	2:56	1989		^[6]
"Lorca's Novena"	Finer MacGowan	Hell's Ditch	4:40	1990		^[1]
"Lorelei"	Chevron	Peace and Love	3:33	1989		^[6]
"Love You 'Till the End"	Hunt	Pogue Mahone	4:35	1996		^[2]
"Lullaby of London"	MacGowan	If I Should Fall from Grace with God	3:32	1988		^[8]
"Maggie May"	Martin Quittenton Rod Stewart
"Maidrin Rua"	Traditional	Hell's Ditch	1:47	1990	Instrumental	^[1]
"Medley: The Recruiting Sergeant/ The Rocky Road to Dublin/The Galway Races"	Traditional	If I Should Fall from Grace with God	4:03	1988		^[8]
"Metropolis"	Finer	If I Should Fall from Grace with God	2:50	1988	Instrumental	^[8]
"Misty Morning, Albert Bridge"	Finer	Peace and Love	3:01	1989		^[6]
"Modern World"	Hunt	Waiting for Herb	3:55	1993		^[5]
"Mountain Dew"	Edward Harrigan		2:19		Collaboration with the Dubliners
"My Baby's Gone"	Finer Ranken	Waiting for Herb	2:24	1993		^[5]
"Navigator"	Philip Gaston	Rum Sodomy & the Lash	4:12	1985		^[3]
"Night Train to Lorca"	Finer	Peace and Love	3:29	1989		^[6]
"The Old Main Drag"	MacGowan	Rum Sodomy & the Lash	3:19	1985		^[3]
"Once Upon a Time"	Finer	Waiting for Herb	3:55	1993		^[5]
"Oretown"	Finer	Pogue Mahone	3:50	1996		^[2]
"Pachinko"	Finer	Waiting for Herb	3:09	1993		^[5]
"A Pair of Brown Eyes"	MacGowan	Rum Sodomy & the Lash	4:54	1985		^[3]
"The Parting Glass"	Traditional	Single	2:14	1985		^[3]
"Planxty Noel Hill"	Finer	Poguetry in Motion	3:12	1986	Instrumental	^[7]
"Pont Mirabeau"	Finer	Pogue Mahone	3:31	1996	Partially adapted from the poem of the same name by Guillaume Apollinaire	^[2]^[10]
"Poor Paddy"	Traditional	Red Roses for Me	3:09	1984		^[4]
"Rain Street"	MacGowan	Hell's Ditch	4:00	1990		^[1]
"Rainbow Man"	Woods	Hell's Ditch	2:46	1990		^[1]
"Rainy Night in Soho"	MacGowan	Poguetry in Motion	5:36	1986		^[7]
"Sally MacLennane"	MacGowan	Rum Sodomy & the Lash	2:43	1985		^[3]
"Sayonara"	MacGowan	Hell's Ditch	3:07	1990		^[1]
"Sea Shanty"	MacGowan	Red Roses for Me	2:24	1984		^[4]
"The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn"	MacGowan	Rum Sodomy & the Lash	2:59	1985		^[3]
"Sit Down by the Fire"	MacGowan	If I Should Fall from Grace with God	2:18	1988		^[8]
"Sitting on Top of the World"	Fearnley Finer Woods	Waiting for Herb	3:37	1993		^[5]
"Six to Go"	Woods	Hell's Ditch	2:58	1990		^[1]
"Small Hours"	Finer	Waiting for Herb	4:31	1993		^[5]
"Smell of Petroleum"	Finer	Waiting for Herb	3:13	1993		^[5]
"South Australia"	Traditional	Waiting for Herb	3:27	1993		^[8]
"Streams of Whiskey"	MacGowan	Red Roses for Me	2:23	1984		^[4]
"Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six"	MacGowan Woods	If I Should Fall from Grace with God	4:39	1988		^[8]
"Summer in Siam"	MacGowan	Hell's Ditch	4:06	1990		^[1]
"The Sun and the Moon"	James Clarke Stacy	Pogue Mahone	3:21	1996		^[2]
"Sunny Side of the Street"	Finer MacGowan	Hell's Ditch	2:44	1990		^[1]
"Thousands Are Sailing"	Chevron	If I Should Fall from Grace with God	5:28	1988		^[8]
"Tombstone"	Finer	Peace and Love	2:57	1989		^[6]
"Tosspint"	Finer	Pogue Mahone	3:31	1996		^[2]
"Transmetropolitan"	MacGowan	Red Roses for Me	4:15	1984		^[4]
"Tuesday Morning"	Stacy	Waiting for Herb	3:30	1993		^[5]
"Turkish Song of the Damned"	Finer MacGowan	If I Should Fall from Grace with God	3:27	1988		^[8]
"USA"	MacGowan	Peace and Love	4:52	1989		^[6]
"The Wake of the Medusa"	Finer	Hell's Ditch	3:04	1990		^[1]
"Waxie's Dargle"	Traditional	Red Roses for Me	1:53	1984		^[4]
"When the Ship Comes In"	Bob Dylan	Pogue Mahone	3:13	1996		^[2]
"Where the Love's Been Gone"	Ranken Steven Skull	Pogue Mahone	3:50	1996		^[2]
"White City"	MacGowan	Peace and Love	2:31	1989		^[6]
"Wild Cats of Kilkenny"	Finer MacGowan	Rum Sodomy & the Lash	2:48	1985	Instrumental	^[3]
"Worms"	Traditional	If I Should Fall from Grace with God	1:01	1988		^[8]
"Smell of Petroleum"	Finer	Waiting for Herb	3:13	1993		^[5]
"Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah"	MacGowan	Single	3:16	1988		^[6]
"Young Ned Of The Hill"	Terry Woods, Ron Kavana	Peace and Love	2:45	1989		^[6]

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v t e The Pogues
Spider Stacy Jem Finer James Fearnley Shane MacGowan Andrew Ranken Darryl Hunt Terry Woods Cait O'Riordan Philip Chevron Joe Strummer Dave Coulter James McNally Jamie Clarke
Studio albums	Red Roses for Me Rum Sodomy & the Lash If I Should Fall from Grace with God Peace and Love Hell's Ditch Waiting for Herb Pogue Mahone
EPs	Poguetry in Motion Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Compilations	Essential Pogues The Best of The Pogues The Very Best of The Pogues Dirty Old Town
Singles	"Dark Streets of London" "A Pair of Brown Eyes" "Sally MacLennane" "Dirty Old Town" "Haunted" "The Irish Rover" "Fairytale of New York" "If I Should Fall from Grace with God" "Fiesta" "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge" "Summer in Siam" "Jack's Heroes" "Sunny Side of the Street" "A Rainy Night in Soho" "Honky Tonk Women" "Tuesday Morning" "Once Upon a Time"
Other songs	"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" "The Auld Triangle" "Greenland Whale Fisheries" "I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day" "Jesse James" "Maggie May" "Mountain Dew" "The Parting Glass" "Poor Paddy" "South Australia" "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six" "Thousands Are Sailing" "Waxie's Dargle" "When the Ship Comes In" "Worms"
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