"I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day" (Roud 975) is a traditional Scottish or Irish music hall song[1] written from the point of view of a rich landowner telling the story of his day while buying drinks at a public house.
According to Archie Fisher, the song is "an Irish narrative ballad that has been shortened to an Aberdeenshire drinking song".
[1] A "boastful Irish ditty" of that title is recorded as early as the 1880s.
[citation needed] A popular version was recorded in 1985 by the Pogues, with bass player Cait O'Riordan on vocals.
In both Robertson's and O'Riordan's versions, the song's first-person narrator is presented by a woman, despite the song's masculine narrative.