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 the corner
Then danced through the night
The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells are 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 NYPD choir
Still singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells are 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 NYPD choir
Still singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells are ringing
Out for Christmas day
5 comments:
The lyrics remind me of big rock candy mountain in some distant way. I don’t know this but me and keri once recorded a Christmas album and we had a song that was similar to this in theme. Christmas used to be a time of magic. Now I feel nothing. Maybe it’s cuz it never snows in LA
Also
The cop at the beginning looks like Matt Dillon. Dennis Leary is not in this video at all. Nor should he be. Also, I love when people deck out those trees with white Christmas lights. I love how they put so many on that you can see the shape of the tree. It must take forever to do. I could never have that much patience
Also smoking is not good for you. It also doesn’t make you look cool either if you are wearing oversized 80’s clothes. Smoking only makes you look cool if you also are wearing clothes that either bad ass or really dressed up. Not 80’s with short hair.
Ah yes, the Pogues
it wouldn't be a Pogues song if they didn't mention drinking at some point
Did you know the lead singer left the band in 1991
because of - get this - a drinking problem...and he's Irish
But - fun fact - Joe Strummer took over on vocals for a few years before finding the Mescaleros
Pogues songs sometimes remind me of an Irish Tom Waits
I thought the Irish were famous for being non-drinking peace loving non-violent desert dwellers.
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