[ti:Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl)] [ar:The Pogues/Kirsty MacColl] [al:Christmas Songs For The Car] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fairytale of New York(feat. Kirsty MacColl) - The Pogues/Kirsty MacColl [00:02.93]Lyrics by:Jem Finer/Shane MacGowan [00:05.87]Composed by:Jem Finer/Shane MacGowan [00:08.80]It was Christmas Eve babe [00:13.69]In the drunk tank [00:17.51]An old man said to me [00:21.79]Won't see another one [00:26.07]And then he sang a song [00:30.66]The Rare Old Mountain Dew [00:34.83]I turned my face away [00:38.87]And dreamed about you [00:43.44]Got on a lucky one [00:47.88]Came in eighteen-to-one [00:51.97]I've got a feeling [00:56.31]This year's for me and you [01:00.55]So Happy Christmas [01:05.25]I love you baby [01:09.25]I can see a better time [01:13.45]When all our dreams come true [01:29.75]They've got cars big as bars [01:31.22]They've got rivers of gold [01:32.94]But the wind goes right through you [01:34.52]It's no place for the old [01:35.81]When you first took my hand [01:37.20]On a cold Christmas Eve [01:38.70]You promised me Broadway was waiting for me [01:41.92]You were handsome [01:42.68]You were pretty Queen of New York City [01:44.93]When the band finished playing [01:46.29]They howled out for more [01:47.98]Sinatra was swinging [01:49.37]All the drunks they were singing [01:50.96]We kissed on a corner [01:52.22]Then danced through the night [01:53.93]The boys of the NYPD choir [01:57.07]Were singing Galway Bay [01:59.93]And the bells were ringing out [02:01.85]For Christmas day [02:15.12]You're a bum you're a punk [02:16.46]You're an old slut on junk [02:18.07]Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed [02:21.15]You scumbag you maggot [02:22.52]You cheap lousy faggot [02:24.05]Happy Christmas your arse [02:25.54]I pray God it's our last [02:27.22]The boys of the NYPD choir [02:30.18]Still singing Galway Bay [02:32.90]And the bells are ringing out [02:35.12]For Christmas day [02:48.01]I could have been someone [02:51.05]Well so could anyone [02:53.85]You took my dreams from me [02:57.11]When I first found you [03:00.20]I kept them with me babe [03:03.23]I put them with my own [03:06.36]Can't make it all alone [03:08.73]I've built my dreams around you [03:13.73]The boys of the NYPD choir [03:16.89]Still singing Galway Bay [03:19.78]And the bells are ringing out [03:21.84]For Christmas day