Fairytale of New York. Watch the video and get the lyrics here.
Shane Mac Gowan of the Pogues has visited Doolin often. Fairytale of New York performed here with Kirsty MacColl is one of the most played Christmas songs in recent history. Watch the 1988 live performance from New York in the video and get the lyrics here in case you don’t know all the words. You’ll also find a video of Shay Mac Gowan (No relation) performing at our famous McGanns pub.
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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’
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 you 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 a corner then danced through the night
The boys of the N.Y.P.D. 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
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse, I pray God it’s our last
The boys of the N.Y.P.D. choir were singing ‘Galway Bay’
And the bells were 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 N.Y.P.D. choir were singing ‘Galway Bay’
And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day
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Christy Moore and Shane Mac Gowan sing Spancil Hill
