This song is a true story, as told to me by BA:

The story goes one evening, Billy Bragg was playing in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, at a show produced by the university's concert-promotion organization. Per tradition, there was an after-show party at the residence of one of the student committee members. Billy Bragg attended the party, arriving with a bottle of booze in a paper bag, from which he drank. At one point, Billy Bragg lit up a cigarette, and the party's host politely informed him that smoking wasn't allowed inside the house and asked him to finish his cigarette outside on the front porch. Billy Bragg made no move to go outside and continued smoking his cigarette indoors. The host again stated that he didn't allow any smoking inside, and asked Billy Bragg to please step outside to smoke his cigarette; again, no move from Billy Bragg. When the host began to reiterate his message, Billy Bragg abruptly turned and extinguished his cigarette on the nearest available surface (a computer keyboard on a nearby desk), then--paper bag in hand--hustled out of the front door of the house and off down the street into the night, never to rejoin the party.