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Der Song stammt aus der Feder von Shane MacGowan, dem Frontmann der Urväter des Folk-Rocks The Pogues.
Die veröffentlichten es 1987 und schufen damit den Weihnachtshit, der in Irland und Britannien ab Mitte November rauf und runter gespielt wird und den jedes kleine, rothaarige Kind in und auswendig kann.
Gesungen wird Fairytale of New York von MacGowan und der Ehefrau des ehemaligen Produzenten, die eigentlich nur für die Probeaufnahmen herhalten sollte aber nun auch auf der Veröffentlichung zu hören ist.
Der Text erzählt die Geschichte von einem Trunkenbold und einem Junkie, die in Amerika ihr großes Glück suchen und deren Träume auf Grund von Alkohol und Drogen den Bach runter gingen.
Richtig weihnachtlich also!
Ich liebe das Lied deshalb weil es noch jedem Weihnachts-Hasser ein Lächeln ins Gesicht gezaubert hat und trotz trostlosem Inhalt endlos Freude verbreitet.
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 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
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
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
copyright 1988 Shane MacGowan & Jem Finer
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