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And the Guthrie estate were ecstatic, because it was giving life to a song that would otherwise have just sat in a folder somewhere.”

But within seconds I said: ‘My God – that’s the lyric.’ The words fell right into our instrumental. I was just, like: ‘What the fuck is this?’ It was so out of left field. All of a sudden I stumble on I’m Shipping Up To Boston, which is only five lines long. “So I’m going through these lyrics, which are deep, political, rebellious, heartfelt. I said: ‘My God, I’d love to come down to the archives.’ I had to put on special white gloves, and I held these pieces of paper in the palms of my hands like I was holding a newborn child. “She told us her father had thousands of songs that were never put to music, just pieces of paper torn from notebooks. Nora Guthrie hadn’t called just to pay the band a compliment. She told us: ‘If my father had been born in your era he would have been playing music like you.’ Which was such a huge honour.” Around the time we were writing that instrumental, we got an invite from Woody Guthrie’s daughter, Nora, who runs the Guthrie Archives. I mean, he even wrote a song, Old Man Trump, about Donald Trump’s father being a slum lord. Never shy of a polemic themselves, Dropkick Murphys were heavier than Guthrie but firmly in his lineage. (Image credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)