The pub scene derives from:

So come fill up your glasses with Brandy and wine
whatever the cost I will pay

as well as the recurring chorus:
so be easy and free, when you're DRINKING with me

or in Liam's Brother's alternate and pre-existing version: Then call for you glasses, have just what you want and whatever the damage I'll pay;
Bhoys, be airy and free when you're drinking wid me, For I'm a man you don't meet every day.


I understand that the dog is a hunting dog in the version you are talking about...I just don't see that it makes sooooo much more sense that he went hunting, than that he had to put his dog down.

I'm beginning to think we may be talking about to vastly different songs. Liam's Brother posted the lyrics to a song that is vastly different from the Pogues interpretation. Here are the words to the song I've been refering to:

Oh my name is Jock Stewart I'm a canny gun man
And a roving young fellow I've been

So be easy and free when you're drinking with me
I'm a man you don't meet every day

I have acres of land I have men at command
I have always a shilling to spare

So be easy ....

So come fill up your glasses of brandy and wine
Whatever it costs I will pay

So be easy ...

Well I took out my dog and him I did shoot
All down in the county Kildare

So be easy ...

I understand where your coming from Kendall, and if you choose to say the guy went hunting that's fine. I wouldn't say you were f*cking it up and that you should expect to be mocked. I'm just saying let The Pogues, DougG, and myself sing it with the old yeller ending. Rereading some of the posts, I realized derrymacash summed up my thoughts far better and far more diplomatically. I welcome Liam's brothers scholarly knowledge and find it very valuable... but kendall's simple dismissal of this version of the song as being incorrect AND non-sensical needed to be addressed.