It is clearly a eulogy for someone named Jim Dwyer, as to his actual relationship with the narrator id say probably a close friend just something about the line "his fathers" also perhaps the narrator himself is american and his friend (Jim) was an irish immigrant, just my thoughts. Also this was the song that first got me into the pogues admitedly because of the wire, brilliant show and a brilliant wake song.
It is clearly a eulogy for someone named Jim Dwyer, as to his actual relationship with the narrator id say probably a close friend just something about the line "his fathers" also perhaps the narrator himself is american and his friend (Jim) was an irish immigrant, just my thoughts. Also this was the song that first got me into the pogues admitedly because of the wire, brilliant show and a brilliant wake song.