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It is to me still very strange that Canada has really latched on to the song, because the song is really about being in the U.K... We had no plans for it to be a single or even a video...despite all of that, itās powered through, and itās by far our most loved
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appear in the lyrics. The later choruses switch the length of time that the narrator has been gone from a week to a month, and in some live performances change from a month to a year. The song's musical arrangement incorporates the traditional
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called the song a "rollicking Irish-flavoured song that is played at celebrations from university parties to weddings". In 2018, the song was inducted into the
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