Happy Christmas yer arse!

[mbarrick]

( male female both )

Fairytale Of New York
By Shane MacGowan / Jem Finer (1987)

It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
And I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They've got cars
Big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old

When he first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on the corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells were ringing
Out for Christmas day

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Living there almost dead on a drip
In that bed

You scum bag
You maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God
It's our last

The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells are ringing
Out for Christmas day

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams
From me when I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you

The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells are ringing
Out for Christmas day

Comments

They've got cars big as bars...

[valerian.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! I adore you :)

Kinda wish we could be in NYC for Christmas, ya know?
Well, get your parts memorized; this is a great duet and we'll sing it there yet!

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

i love the fairytale of new york and the pogues...one of my favourite "seasonal" songs...ha ha...

[contrasoma.livejournal.com]

Goddamn, I love this song. Really wish the folks would let me play it during seasonal get-togethers...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we can coerce Isaac into playing it at Sin City.

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

For one year I made my friends a mixed xmas cd
with Wierd Al , William Burroughs, South Park
and all the other screwed up holiday jingles I could find

I wanted to put the fun into Disfunctional holiday

"Here comes Jeffrey Dhalmer ..with a festive Christmas Ham...
..after has sex with it he'll eat up all he can..."
~Satan "Christmas time in hell" (south park)