This song always brings a tear to my eye, though reality has changed a lot. Being fired after 20odd years? I can't even imagine, I'm feeling secure when I have a job for a month.
I worked as an RN for a Catholic Health Organization. After 20 years I was injured on the job and never even received a telephone call from the "bosses". Face it, you are one of the expendables, in other words, "one of yesterday's men". Not bitter, just educated as to reality.
The author of the song, Phil Coulter, is accompanying Ronnie on piano. Craic does indeed mean fun in Irish slang. Craic unlike crack, has never killed anyone, though there where many times I wished I was dead after night of "tunes and jars".
Brilliant song' history repeating itsel just like the Thatcher lot did to the steelers' dockers' miners' and any other hard working men' chewed up and spat out by a set of Tories'
u no, this song as far as the "farewell, my companions, my friends, and workmates, farewell" in a sense, it kind of relates like Ronnie Drew's farewell message to his fans if u think about it.
