Paddy Public Enemy No. 1 - Shane MacGowan, The Popes

The chasing girls was easy and drinking been was fun

And he went out one day and bought himself a gun,

He shot a couple of coppers and he joined the IRA,

And the papers called him Paddy Public Enemy No 1

The Coppers in the north they couldn’t catch him

The British army they just couldn’t touch him

He shot a couple of coppers and he joined the IRA,

And the papers called him Paddy Public Enemy No 1

One day the knock came at the door, they hauled him away,

The IRA they kicked him out when he was still in jail

When he got outta jail he shouted up the IRA

And the papers called him Paddy Public Enemy No 1

The coppers in the North they couldn’t catch him

The British army they just couldn’t touch him

When he got out of jail he shouted up the IRA

And the papers called him Paddy Public Enemy No 1

The factions all were fighting

their deadly power game

He said fuck them all and left the INLA

Wherever there was trouble

there was Paddy and his gun

And the papers called him Paddy Public Enemy No 1

The coppers in the North they couldn’t catch him

The British army they just couldn’t touch him

When he got out of jail he shouted up the IRA

And the papers called him Paddy Public Enemy No 1

One day he tired of it all and hung away his gun

When he hung away his gun he became the hunted one

He went into a phone box to make a local call,

They shot him in the phonebox

splashin blood upon the wall

But when he hung away his gun he became the hunted one

And that was the end of Paddy Public Enemy No 1