"Gin Soaked Boy" | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Single by the Divine Comedy | ||||
from the album A Secret History... The Best of the Divine Comedy | ||||
Released | 1 November 1999 | |||
Genre | Chamber pop | |||
Length | 5:03 | |||
Label | Setanta Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Neil Hannon | |||
The Divine Comedy singles chronology | ||||
| ||||
Music video | ||||
"Gin Soaked Boy" on YouTube |
"Gin Soaked Boy" is a song by Irish chamber pop band The Divine Comedy. It was the second single from the album A Secret History... The Best of the Divine Comedy, released in 1999 on Setanta Records. The song peaked at No. 38 on the UK Singles Chart and stayed on the chart for two weeks.[1]
One of the single's B-sides, "My Lovely Horse", was first heard in the Father Ted series two episode "A Song for Europe" and was written by Hannon and Father Ted co-writers and co-creators Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan.