I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day

{{Short description|Scottish–Irish folk song}}

"I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day" (Roud 975) is a traditional Scottish or Irish music hall song{{cite web|url = https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/imamanyoudontmeeteveryday.html|title = I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day / Jock Stewart|work = Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music|accessdate = 7 April 2015}} 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".

It is also known under the titles Jock Stuart, Jock Stewart or Jock Steward.

Various versions of the song exist. A "boastful Irish ditty" of that title is recorded as early as the 1880s.{{cite book|author=Simon J. Bronner|title=Old-time Music Makers of New York State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GbjUM_Fb1G8C&pg=PA125|year=1987|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-0216-3|pages=125–}}

It was also passed on from Frederick “Cauliflower” Crossman, who had worked with Cecil Sharp, to Crossman's granddaughter.

Its most famous version is Jeannie Robertson's from 1960.{{cn|date=October 2024}} 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.{{cite book|title=The Pogues' Rum, Sodomy and the Lash|first=Jeffrey T.|last=Roesgen|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2008|isbn=9781441105707|pages=38–39|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8BJTbN-cfdQC&pg=PT38}}