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Norbert - Vocals
Eric Bell - Guitar
Brian Downey - Drums
Phil Lynott - Bass

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The tune for this up beat rocker should be instantly recognisable to any self respecting music fan. It has been said that if the late great Phil Lynott was still with us he’d be drowning his sorrows in a combination of alcohol and hard drugs after hearing this Fingolstones tune. However as this is is what he did on a regular basis anyway it would be unfair to accuse Norbert of any wrongdoing.

It is of course yet another song about The Charmer, a subject that was beginning to wear pretty thin with even the most hardcore of Fingolstones fans.
Uber fan Paul “Goffy” Gofton had this to say in the June 2016 issue of his Fingolstones fanzine “These Charming Men”.
“The Fingolstones are starting to bore me now. All the songs are about the same bloody thing, no originality, no creativity. I’m going back to Sly Fox”


This scathing criticism inspired Norbert to write a song to address this critique “Writing Songs (Nobody Wants To Hear)”. Whilst Goffy had a point, as Norbert explained in his 2017 interview with Saga Magazine “The Charmer is a metaphorical goldmine when it comes to lyrical inspiration. To stop writing songs about him would be liking asking Black Lace to stop wring songs about depression, drugs, death and addiction”.


The song itself is about a typical evening/night for The Charmer of a weekend, drinking and women. It tells a cautionary tale of not trying to pull someone else’s bird especially when said bird has a boyfriend built like a brick shithouse, is called Daz and has “Made in Birdholme” tattooed across his tits.

As I was going down to
Meet the lads in Salty
I came across The Charmer
And his barnet it was faulty
He said I’ve got some problems
And my troubles they are many
I can’t decide who to have
Bulgie, Kate or Jenny

Gitgoba Gaylega Ballarse
Girls for the Foxyio
Girls for the Foxyio
They’re all underageo

I said now don’t you worry
When it all gets too heavy
We’ll go down into the town
And sup down lots of bevvy
When we’ve finished drinking
We’ll all go down the Ackerman
You’ll meet another woman
And I bet she’ll be a cracker

Gitgoba Gaylega Ballarse
Ale for the Possieo
Ale for the Posseio
There’s lager for the ladso

Being drunk and merry
The Charmer hit the dance floor
Pulled a bird called Sharon
And my god she was a right whore
The Charmer started flirting
And moved in for the first kiss
Put her hand upon his crotch
And said c’mon ger on this

Gitboba Gaylega Ballarse
He’s on the pullio
He’s on the pullio
There’s trouble on the wayo

Now some men love the faytin
Love to do the brawlin
The Charmer was knocked to the floor
The poor lad he was crawlin
For her boyfriend was stood nearby
Said his name was Darren
Kicked The Charmer in the nads
And now the poor lads barren

Gitgoba Gaylega Ballarse
No kids for the Foxyio
No kids for the Foxyio
His bollocks are all goneo


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Daz from Birdholme.
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