a cover version.

Music  Meanwhile, The Bangles's Going Down To Liverpool is a cover version.

Blog Critics has a review of the original:

Katrina Leskanich

(of, yes, Katrina and the Waves -- ed)

fights for to keep her individualism in the bold "Going Down To Liverpool." [...] Audacious guitars open the single, setting a rebellious tone. Katrina Leskanich snarls to her friend, who is looking for a job, that he's missing out on enjoying the beauty of England."

Listen again in this very vinyl video at YouTube.