Fairytale Of New York

The Pogues

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It was Christmas

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Eve, babe In the

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drunk tank

An old man

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said to me, won't see

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another one

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And then he

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sang a song, The Rare O

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ld Mountain Dew

I turned my

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face away and dreamed a

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bout

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you

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Got on a

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lucky one, came in eigh

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teen to one

I've got a

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feeling this year's for

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me and you

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So happy

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Christmas, I love you

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baby

I can see a

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better time when all our

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dreams come

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true

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They've got

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cars big as

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bars, they've got

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rivers of

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gold

But the

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wind goes right through you, it's no place for the

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old

When you

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first took my

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hand on a

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cold Christmas

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Eve

You

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promised me Broadway was

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waiting for

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me

You were

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handsome, you were pretty, queen of New York

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City

When the

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band finished

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playing, they

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howled out for

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more

Sin

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atra was swinging, all the drunks they were

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singing

We

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kissed on a

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corner then

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danced through the

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night

The

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boys of the NY

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PD

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choir were

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singing Galway

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Bay

And the

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bells were

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ringing ou

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t for Christmas

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day

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Am

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Am

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F

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G

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You're a

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bum, you're a punk, you're an old slut on

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junk

Lying

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there almost

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dead on a

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drip in that

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bed

You

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scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy

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faggot

Happy

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Christmas your

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arse, I pray

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God it's our

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last

The

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boys of the NYP

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D

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choir still

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singing Galway

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Bay

And the

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bells are

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ringing ou

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t for Christmas da

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y

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I could have

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been someone, well so could

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anyone

You took my

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dreams from me when I first

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found you

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I kept them

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with me babe, I put them

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with my own

Can't make it

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all alone, I've built my

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dreams a

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round

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you

The

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boys of the NYP

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D

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choir still

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singing Galway

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Bay

And the

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bells are

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ringing ou

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t for Christmas da

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