But if you listen closely to the lyrics, the Belfast Cowboy is crooning about what we now call Halloween, the end of the old year and the beginning of a new one in accordance with the Celtic religion. Samhain is what they called it. At that time the wall between our world and the mystic world of spirits is the thinnest.
The references to Indian summer and bonfires are the giveaway, the mention of Bourbon Street notwithstanding.
Happy New Year all the same!
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