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I’ve been thinking about the all time best Christmas song for some time which is hard when it’s a bright sunny October day outside.

Many Christmas song for me just drive me insane. They’re over jolly or over played. They are not what I want to hear and not what I feel when I’m doing my Xmas shopping late in December on Oxford Street.

‘Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy’ I enjoy, purely for the Bowie and Bing intro banter ‘Ello I’m David Bowie, I live down the road!

That aside, I’m always drawn to one song and one song only and that song is…

The Pogues fearuring Kirst McColl -- Fairytale of New York.

Written by Shane MacGowan & Jem Finer, the single was released in1987  from the album ‘If I should fall from grace with God’ by The Pogues and that alone takes me back to my early twenties and some fond memories.

Fairytale of New York was reissued in 1991, 1995 2005

Who can argue with the lyrics of Shane MacGowan…

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 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 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

I could have been someone
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

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