I Useta Lover

"I Useta Lover" (/ˈjuːstə/, eye dialect of "I used to love her") is a 1990 song by Irish rock group The Saw Doctors.^[1] It is the second single off the If This Is Rock and Roll, I Want My Old Job Back album. It stayed at the #1 position in the Irish chart for nine weeks and became one of the best-selling singles of all time in the country.^[2] A similar clerically influenced ^{[citation needed]} message is seen in other Saw Doctors songs, notably "Bless Me Father" and "Tommy K".

"I Useta Lover"
Cassette sleeve
Single by The Saw Doctors
from the album If This Is Rock and Roll, I Want My Old Job Back
B-side	"Captain Joe Fiddle's"
Released	July 28, 1990 (1990-07-28)
Studio	Loco Studio, Wales
Genre	Celtic rock folk rock
Label	Solid Records
Songwriter(s)	Davy Carton, Leo Moran, Paul Cunniffe
Producer(s)	Phil Tennant
The Saw Doctors singles chronology
"N17" (1989) "I Useta Lover" (1990) "Presentation Boarder" (1990)

The chorus of the song was originally taken from a song of the same name which was performed by Davy Carton's first band, Blaze X. The original song had been written by Paul Cunniffe. The Blaze X version of the song appears as a B-side on some versions of the single.