I had Guinness with a Hot Press photographer in a Dublin pub He wore a crucifix and a short fat beard Showed me pictures of Gavin Thursday, Three Men And A Dog With the Joshua Duo stood around looking weird Met a Sid Vicious lookalike and he was six foot four Had spikes on his dog collar made of solder He was sitting in Bewley's caff in a dirty old gaberdine mac He was 17 but he looked about ten years older, that was Back in the Ould Country, back in the Ould Country Back in the Ould Country, back in the Ould Country 10 AM one Sunday, Diceman hadn't been near his bed And he was gargling creme de menthe just to keep awake He'd been rolling through night, and got ossified in Sides He look so smashed and happy it made my day, that was Back in the Ould Country, back in the Ould Country Back in the Ould Country, back in the Ould Country Headed into Limerick on the Clonmel road In a beat-up rented Nissan with no brakes Saw a Garda on the beat with two size 13 feet Ten convent girls and a nun on roller skates, that was Back in the Ould Country, back in the Ould Country Back in the Ould Country, back in the Ould Country