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This song is about an Irish nationalist who killed someone, likely one of the British “others”, and questions whether what he did was right or not.
[Verse 1]
If I should fall from grace with God
Where no doctor can relieve me
If I'm buried 'neath the sod
But the angels won't receive me
[Chorus]
Let me go, boys
Let me go, boys
Let me go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry
[Verse 2]
This land was always ours
Was the proud land of our fathers
It belongs to us and them
Not to any of the others
[Chorus]
Let them go, boys
Let them go, boys
Let them go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry
[Verse 3]
Bury me at sea
Where no murdered ghost can haunt me
If I rock upon the waves
No corpse shall lie upon me
[Chorus]
It's coming up threes, boys
Keeps coming up threes, boys
Let them go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry
[Verse 1]
If I should fall from grace with God
Where no doctor can relieve me
If I'm buried 'neath the sod
So the angels won't receive me
[Chorus]
Let me go, boys
Let me go, boys
Let me go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry
If I Should Fall from Grace with God was written by Shane MacGowan.
If I Should Fall from Grace with God was produced by Steve Lillywhite.
The Pogues released If I Should Fall from Grace with God on Mon Jan 18 1988.