Everybody gets their phrasing wrong sometimes.

One of the greatest phrasing screw-ups in folk music, which has been committed by almost everybody who has recorded Raglan Road, occurs on the final couplet ,

"When the angel woos the clay, he'll lose
His wings at the dawn of the day"

ALmost everybody puts a pause after "woos" and then sings "the clay he'll lose" as a single phrase, with a following pause, then the final line.

Makes a total nonsense of the meaning of the last two lines.

Even Luke Kelly wasn't exempt ...