"How Come" is a song co-written by Ronnie Lane and Kevin Westlake, and recorded by Lane as his first single in 1973 after he left Faces.
[1] Featuring a band of constantly changing personnel called Slim Chance, including Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle,[2] who later had considerable success as a performing and songwriting duo in their own right, it reached No.
Gallagher played piano accordion and Lyle mandolin on the A-side, both also contributing back-up vocals.
"Done This One Before", on the B-side, featured Gallagher on Hammond organ and Lyle on harmonica.
In 1996 the song was used as the first track of the Pogues' seventh and last studio album Pogue Mahone.